- City:
- Cranston, RI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Albert Harkness
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
A two-story, T-shaped Colonial Revival building, with a cross-gable roof and a cupola. Built by the PWA in 1936-38 to house an auditorium, gymnasium, and swimming pool. Like most of the Sockanosset buildings, this building has been demolished for the Chapel View “Lifestyle Center”, a mixed use development. Sockanosset was the state’s reform school for boys. The architect of this building was Albert Harkness of Providence.
Source notes
Pages 15 & 20, Rhode Island: State-Owned Historic Properties (Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1989) PDF version available at https://www.preservation.ri.gov/survey/publications.phpSite originally submitted by John P. on February 20, 2014.
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