Article by Jenny Lin


Exterior

The Arcade's exterior offers two temple front facades with varying pediments on each of the parallel streets it connects. Both facades consist of hexa-style porticos supported by six grand columns of granite with smooth shafts and Iconic capitals, staircases allowing access to upper levels, and twice-set back interior facades that can be seen from the porticos. The facade on Westminster Street, attributed to Warren, culminates in a pediment, while that on Weybosset Street, attributed to Bucklin, has a stepped parapet. While local papers compared the Providence Arcade to European projects, it was really modeled after the American arcades of architect John Haviland, notably the one he designed in New York.
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