National Register of Historic Places
Edgewood Historic District-Shaw Plat
Listed federally as Edgewood Historic District--Shaw Plat
Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island
The record
- Listed
- March 27, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Shaw & Marion Aves., parts of Narragansett Blvd. & Broad St., Cranston
- County
- Providence
- State
- Rhode Island
- Contributing resources
- 77 buildings
- Coordinates
- 41.77725, -71.39353
- Reference number
- 13000120
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The story
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The Edgewood Historic District-Shaw Plat is a residential historic district in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island. It covers about 25 acres and includes 77 contributing buildings, laid out as a grid-plan streetcar suburb with tree-lined streets. Its houses were built mainly in the Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2013 under criteria A and C, with state level significance in community planning and development and architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1867 to 1962, spanning Selena H. Bigelow's 1892 purchase of a large lot on Broad Street to construction as late as 1960 to 1961.
Physical character
Walls are wood clapboard, shingle, or stucco, some later covered in vinyl or aluminum, and foundations are brick, stone, fieldstone, or concrete block. Roofs take gable, hip, and gambrel forms, some finished in slate or asphalt, and a few porches have Tuscan columns.
Historical context
In 1892, Eddy M. Shaw and Clara C. Shaw, Harriet E. Potter and William K. Potter, and Alice E. Smith and Henry E. Smith all acquired properties in the district. Albin J. Johnson acquired a property in 1909, established the Edgewood Greenhouses by 1913, and ran a florist shop at 1860 Broad Street from 1927 to 1928. Bertrand B. Tillinghast acquired a property in 1916 that operated as an auto repair garage and later a gas station until 1990.