Article by Jenny Lin


History

The Providence industrialist Ashbel T. Wall had established the A.T. Wall Company in rented quarters on Sabin Street in 1888 for the production of gold-plated wire. In 1901, the company employed sixty workers, and by 1908, it had outgrown its rented quarters. In 1908, Wall commissioned the firm Bowerman Brothers of Boston to design a manufacturing building at 162 Clifford Street, which was erected by the Thomas F. Cullinan Building Company. There the A.T. Wall Company continued to manufacture rolled gold plate and wire, with a variety of designs for manufacturing jewelers and metal workers. After the success of the A.T. Wall building, the Bowerman Brothers had a splendid career in Providence, designing a large number of industrial buildings in the 1930s.
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