offer to the skill of the designer and of the planner, the lighting expert and the museum director! For museums of art are coming into the city; they are no longer content to sit in state in outlying park land and wait for the city to grow around them. They have work to do and they cannot do it at long range or out of contact with their public.
In specific buildings such preliminary considerations are put into practice and their “behavior” may
be observed under trial. Several of them live together in inspiring comfort and becoming harmony in the new museum building of the Rhode Island School of Design, at Providence.
Exigencies of site here offer both advantage and obstacle, the side hill location making possible a museum edifice with a one-story front elevation and a five-story height at the rear, the lower stories at the back providing space for administration,
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ELIZA G. RADEKE MUSEUM BUILDING, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
WILLIAM T. ALDRICH, ARCHITECT
Photo by Weber