Stone, Carpenter, and Willson

Stone, Carpenter and Willson was a Providence, Rhode Island based architectural firm in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It was named for the partners Alfred E. Stone (1834 - 1908),cite web|url=http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitectsS&category=Resources|title=American Architect's Biographies S|publisher=Society of Architectural Historians|accessdate=2008-09-05] Edmund R. Willson (1856-1906),cite web|url=http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitectsW&category=Resources|title=American Architect's Biographies W|publisher=Society of Architectural Historians|accessdate=2008-09-05] and Charles E. Carpenter (1845 - 1923).cite web|url=http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitectsC&category=Resources|title=American Architect's Biographies C|publisher=Society of Architectural Historians|accessdate=2008-09-05] The company designed a number of prominent structures in the region including several Brown University buildings.

Buildings

The firm designed a number of buildings in Providence including:
* "Providence YMCA Building" (1887)
* The "William Wilkinson Building" (aka the Lerner Building) (1887) cite web|url=http://www.ppsrf.org/consulting_detail.cfm?id=48|title=William Wilkinson Building |publisher=Providence Preservation Society Revolving Fund|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* "Barrington Town Hall" (1887-1888), a Tudor Revival, Late Victorian one and a half story building, constructed with three flank gable units of varying height, with two circular towers. The basement, first and second stories of the towers are constructed of boulders.cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/RI/Bristol/state.html|title=Rhode Island - Bristol County (Barrington Civic Center)|publisher=National Register of Historic Places|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* The "Ladd Observatory" (1891) at Brown University.
* "Cranston Sockanosset Boys Training School Chapel" (1891) in Cranston, Rhode Island. A stone building with a shingled porch, notable for being part of Rhode Island's first attempt to provide statewide social services through publicly supported and administered institutions.cite web|url=http://www.cranstonri.com/generalpage.php?page=112|title=The Boys Training School at Sockanosset|publisher=The City of Cranston, Rhode Island|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* The "Rhode Island Building" (1893) at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.cite web|url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/WCE/architects.html|title=World's Columbian Exposition - The Architects and Their Buildings|publisher=University of Virginia|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* The "William Slade House" (1895) in the Wayland Historic District containing intact leaded glass, staircase, inlaid floors and original cherry butler's pantry.
* "Royal C. Taft house" (1895), based on the Joseph Brown House (1774) of 50 South Main Street.
* "Union Station (Providence)" (1896-98), a Romanesque yellow brick construction, it was the longest building in America when it was built (at 700 feet long, although some claimed it was 625). With an octagonal pavilion on one end and two towers on the other, it also featured Railroad Hall.cite web|url=http://www.artinruins.com/arch/stillinuse/unionstation/|title=Union Station|publisher=Art in Ruins|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* "Old Stone Bank" (1896-98)
* "Providence Public Library" (1900) on Empire Street
* The "Mason Building" (1903) now part of Rhode Island School of Design.cite web|url=http://www.artinruins.com/arch/redevelop/risdcit/|title=RISD Mason Building|publisher=Art in Ruins|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* The "Sayles Gymnasium" (1906) at Brown University in red brick with terracotta trim, a style described as “modern English collegiate.”cite web|url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=S0040|title=Martha Mitchell’s Encyclopedia Brunoniana - Sayles Gymnasium|date=1993|publisher=Brown University Library|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* "Pendleton House", a Georgian building at 224 Benefit Street that was designed to house the Charles L. Pendleton Collection of 18th century English and American furniture, paintings and art. The house was a foundational acquisition of the Rhode Island School of Design. Charles Pendleton's 1904 bequest stipulated that the collection be safeguarded against fire. The architects complied, ordering a structure made of concrete, plaster, and ceramic tile.cite web|url=http://www.risd.edu/charlespendleton.cfm|title=Endowment, Prosperity, and Charles L. Pendleton|publisher=Rhode Island School of Design|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* "Robert W. Taft House" (now King House) at 154 Hope Street, housing an undergraduate literary society.
* The "Providence Telephone Company building", 112 Union St., Providencecite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ri/Providence/state6.html|title=Rhode Island - Providence County (Providence Telephone Company)|publisher=National Register of Historic Places|accessdate=2008-09-05]
* "Old Rhode Island State House" renovations.cite web|url=http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap09.htm|title=State Capitol Building Histories|publisher=Cupolas of Capitalism|accessdate=2008-09-05]

Associated Architects and Draftsmen

* Norman Morrison Isham [http://home.sprynet.com/~awb02/ham4.htm]
* Walter F. Fontaine [http://www.woonsocket.org/fontaine.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.rihs.org/grcoll.htm#arch Rhode Island Historical Society architectural drawing collection] including Rhode Island architectural firm Stone, Carpenter and Wilson.