Blacksmith Shop at the Sockanosset School for Boys
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Blacksmith Shop at the Sockanosset School for Boys
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Images of the blacksmith shop at the Sockanosset School for Boys at the Howard complex.
In 1880, eighteen acres were purchased from Job Wilbur to build the Oak Lawn Girls School on the New London Turnpike at what is now Brayton Avenue. This spot was picked because of its distance from the other institutions; alone among the inmates at Howard’s several facilities the girls and their visitors used the Oak Lawn Railroad station.
The Sockanosset Boys School was also located at a distance from the other institutions and also used a different train station, the small one called “Sockanosset” near the foot of Sockanosset Road. The extant but largely unused cottages at Sockanosset, at once institutional and domestic, were built between 1881-1895 and combine solid rubblestone walls, brownstone quoins, and arched windows with Stick Style porches in handsome fashion. They are sited around a circular driveway in the center of which used to stand a large administration building that housed a chapel and industrial shops. A new chapel and infirmary structure was built in 1891 from design by Stone, Carpenter and Wilson. Built of stone with a shingled porch, it is one of the most handsome buildings at Howard. A new hospital and gym were built in 1898 and an additional industrial building in 1912-1914.
Although in disrepair, the buildings at Sockanosset, beautifully sited on spacious grounds behind a stone wall, are among the finest nineteenth-century institutional buildings in the state.
Excerpt from: Historical Preservation Commission’s Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-C-1 on Cranston, 1980
See also:
Cranston: National Register of Historic Places, 1984
Report of the Committee of State Charities and Corrections Upon the State Institutions at Cranston, Made to the Senate, at its January Session, 1883
Report of the Joint Special Committee on the State Asylum for the Insane Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. 1868
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission: Statewide Preservation Reports, 1975 - 1982
Article Written by William F. Gleason, M.D....on a State School for Feeble-Minded Children, 1907
Report of State Commission on Public Welfare Institutions, 1943
Special Legislative Commission to Study the Howard Complex records, 1970-1972
External Related Resources:
Rhode Island Historical Society: Rhode Island State Institutions Records, 1839-1968 (bulk 1885-1944)
City of Providence- Providence Reform School Records, 1853-1880
In 1880, eighteen acres were purchased from Job Wilbur to build the Oak Lawn Girls School on the New London Turnpike at what is now Brayton Avenue. This spot was picked because of its distance from the other institutions; alone among the inmates at Howard’s several facilities the girls and their visitors used the Oak Lawn Railroad station.
The Sockanosset Boys School was also located at a distance from the other institutions and also used a different train station, the small one called “Sockanosset” near the foot of Sockanosset Road. The extant but largely unused cottages at Sockanosset, at once institutional and domestic, were built between 1881-1895 and combine solid rubblestone walls, brownstone quoins, and arched windows with Stick Style porches in handsome fashion. They are sited around a circular driveway in the center of which used to stand a large administration building that housed a chapel and industrial shops. A new chapel and infirmary structure was built in 1891 from design by Stone, Carpenter and Wilson. Built of stone with a shingled porch, it is one of the most handsome buildings at Howard. A new hospital and gym were built in 1898 and an additional industrial building in 1912-1914.
Although in disrepair, the buildings at Sockanosset, beautifully sited on spacious grounds behind a stone wall, are among the finest nineteenth-century institutional buildings in the state.
Excerpt from: Historical Preservation Commission’s Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-C-1 on Cranston, 1980
See also:
Cranston: National Register of Historic Places, 1984
Report of the Committee of State Charities and Corrections Upon the State Institutions at Cranston, Made to the Senate, at its January Session, 1883
Report of the Joint Special Committee on the State Asylum for the Insane Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. 1868
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission: Statewide Preservation Reports, 1975 - 1982
Article Written by William F. Gleason, M.D....on a State School for Feeble-Minded Children, 1907
Report of State Commission on Public Welfare Institutions, 1943
Special Legislative Commission to Study the Howard Complex records, 1970-1972
External Related Resources:
Rhode Island Historical Society: Rhode Island State Institutions Records, 1839-1968 (bulk 1885-1944)
City of Providence- Providence Reform School Records, 1853-1880
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Rhode Island Board of Charities and Corrections Annual Report, 1900
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Rhode Island State Archives
Date
1900
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Rhode Island. Board of Charities and Corrections (1789-1917), "Blacksmith Shop at the Sockanosset School for Boys," in Virtual Exhibits, Item #785, http://sos.ri.gov/virtualarchives/items/show/785 (accessed September 20, 2019).