Covell Street School

The Covell Street School (or Joslin Multi-Service Center) is an historic school building at 231 Amherst Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a two-story wood frame structure built in a typically elaborate Queen Anne style. Although it is basically rectangular in plan, its roofline and exterior are busy, with a complicated group of cross gables, hip-roof sections, with projecting and recessed sections. A three-story square tower rises from the center of the main facade. Built in 1885 and opened in 1886, it is one of Providence's last surviving 19th-century neighborhood school buildings.[2] It was designed by the local firm of William R. Walker & Son, designers of many Rhode Island civic buildings. The builders were John L. Sprague & Company.[3]

Covell Street School
LocationProvidence, Rhode Island
Coordinates41°49′24″N 71°26′51″W
Built1885-86
ArchitectW. R. Walker & Son; J. L. Sprague & Co.
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.76000044 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 30, 1976

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Covell Street School" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
  3. "Coville Street School House". Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Buildings, for the Year Ending December 31, 1886. Providence: Providence Press Co., 1887.


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