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72 Comstock Ave
The perpendicular alignment of the house in relation to the road suggests the street was an afterthought (at least as far as this building is concerned) and that possibly the house once sat on a larger, majestic tract. The front porch facing into a (large-ish) adjacent yard supports this theory.
House is in bad shape. Badness all around that yard and front entrance.
ACCESS Y
FIRE DAMAGE N
- map
- property card
74 Bridgham St
In the running as Ugliest House as documented by Forgotten Providence. This house also gives me the creeps. And it’s been this way for quite a while. In a succession of neighbor-touching-neighbor blight with 26 – 28 Gilmore and 31 Gilmore that certainly makes good case for the “bad apple” theory of community rot.
Big time access.
ACCESS: Y
FIRE DAMAGE: N
- map
- property card
35 Diamond St
This house is mad sketchy. Wanted to get a shot of the facing front but hopping in the adjacent hard would be ill advised. Definite squatters in here.
Awful street. Steps from the Armory. Two vacant lots next to this house, house across the street is boarded up, and two doors down sits two houses on the same parcel, both rotting at some failed stage of renovation. And if you’re into collecting (or dumping) old tires, this spot is for you.
ACCESS: Y
FIRE DAMAGE: N
- map
- property card
18 Steuben St
This one has been gutted for a long time. Oddly, it’s not listed on the tax survey.
ACCESS: Y
FIRE DAMAGE: Y
- map
- property card
17 Ticknor St
What is this building? Tax code says it’s good for a two – five family residence. I have my doubts. And stucco. It’s always wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I vote to take this one down.
ACCESS: somebody’s up in through that garage
FIRE DAMAGE: N
- map (no streetview)
- property card
961 Douglas Ave
Newly boarded up. Wasn’t more than a couple weeks and the copper was already gone and house graffitied up. No current access but there is graffiti on the inside of the top windows. House has been occupied the entire time I have lived in Providence, until now (8 years).
I have noticed more graffiti lately in the area around this house.
ACCESS: no
FIRE DAMAGE: no
- map
- property card
26 – 28 Gilmore St
This one is right across from 31 Gilmore; a sad block on a sad street in a sad part of town. All non-boarded windows on the bottom floor (side not pictured) are shattered. I know the inside is trashed just by the way the back door is kicked in.
ACCESS: y
FIRE DAMAGE: n
- map
- property card
22 Pekin St
A severely intoxicated man told me the owners died some time ago. Access through basement window. Yard loaded with garbage.
ACCESS: y
FIRE DAMAGE: n
- map
- property card
