study, utilities and service with minimum excavation.
The block plan would show, for the entire group of which this new building forms part, a frontage on three streets and existing construction, including an old museum and school building, a mechanical building, a power house, a textile and jewelry school building, and a Georgian-type dwelling erected as a special museum unit to house a unified
collection of furniture and other decorative arts of its period. These, with another public edifice not related to this institution, formed a hollow square allowing ample space within it for the main mass of the new museum building, an L-shaped unit connecting this with the dwelling referred to, called Colonial House, and giving upon a fine residential street which thereupon became the main museum approach. On the axis of the front door the land
COURT ENTRANCE (DOORWAY FROM BRISTOL, R. I. )
ELIZA G. RADEKE MUSEUM BUILDING, RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, PROVIDENCE, R. I.
WILLIAM T. ALDRICH, ARCHITECT
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