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Woonsocket City Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	169 Main Street, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Coordinates	42°0′8″N 71°30′53″W / 42.00222°N 71.51472°W / 42.00222; -71.51472
Built	1856
Built by	Albert B. Cole and Obadiah Slade (1856); Cutting & Bishop (1891)
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	74000007
Added to NRHP	May 1, 1974

The Woonsocket City Hall, (also known as the Harris Institute) is located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Edward Harris, a leading Woonsocket industrialist, constructed the earliest part of the building in 1856, and it was known as the Harris Block, with stores on the first floor, and an auditorium hall seating 1,100 on the third floor. This brick structure has elements of Italianate styling, including round-arch windows and a heavily dentilled cornice. A major Richardsonian Romanesque addition, called the Granite Block, was made to the north of this structure in 1891. In 1902 the city purchased the building for use as city hall.

The builders of the original building were Albert B. Cole of Woonsocket and a Mr. Slade of Providence, probably Obadiah Slade, carpenter. The 1891 addition was built by Cutting & Bishop of Worcester. The architect of neither section is known.

The building served as the first public library in Rhode Island, housed on the second floor, which is now the Woonsocket Harris Public Library.

In March 1860 Abraham Lincoln spoke to a packed crowd in Harris Hall, which at the time contained one of the largest assembly rooms in the state.

Edward Harris, founder of the Harris Institute, the first public library in Rhode Island

References and external links

Erik Eckilson, "Woonsocket, My Town"

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Woonsocket City Hall" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
Providence directories, 1850s
"J. W. Bishop & Co.," Architectural Record (July 1896): 112.
"Abraham Lincoln and Rhode Island". Abraham Lincoln's Classroom. The Lehman Institute. Retrieved 16 September 2015.

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