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Boston: South End, Side Street
No full textThe Boston neighborhood known as the South End (see notes) was once marshland that was filled in the 1840s as a solution to overcrowding in the Back Bay area. Renowned architect Charles Bulfinch created a plan for the South End neighborhood’s architecture that consisted of connected brick townhouses. The homes vary in style and detail, but have consistent elements such as iron railings, bay windows, and brick sidewalks.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1402/thumbnail.jp
Cranston St. Armory
No full textIn this aerial, the Cranston Street Armory can be seen. This building and land parcel was passed on to the city of Providence by Ebenezar Knight Dexter. This area is located off Cranston St. and between Dexter St. and Parade St. This brick and granite building was designed by William R. Walker & Son. The building was once used by the National Guard for training up until the late 1900s but is now abandoned.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1127/thumbnail.jp
State House
No full textIn this aerial, the Rhode Island State House is seen. This magnificent building was designed by McKim, Mead and White between 1891 and 1902. This impressive building is located on Smith Street. William H. Jordy considers the State House to be “a key monument of the American Renaissance”.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1120/thumbnail.jp
Commencement Program 2011
Get PDFThis commencement program is for baccalaureate and advanced degrees.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/commencement_programs/1124/thumbnail.jp
Trauma and the Limits of Redemptive Critique
Get PDFThe authors continue to test the limits of Emile Durkheim/Maurice Halbwachs approach to collective identity in the experiences of trauma, shame, and yearning related to the ill-fated Hungarian Revolution. In a more poststructuralist vein the authors move from a focus on piacular subjectivity to one of baroque subjectivity, especially in understanding the October 2006 fiftieth anniversary commemorations of the Revolution in Budapest. Specifically, what indexical undercurrents of disposition persist and can not be ignored in attempts at redemptive critique, as well as in colonized nostalgia and the re-enactment of pathos. To what extent do the commemorations of the 1956 Revolution reveal an incomplete text of haunting voices open to diverse re-assembling and contesting narratives? Beyond the mourning, Walter Benjamin asked, can we transcend the spectacle of shared suffering, shared melancholy and shared atonement in interrogating a text of presence and absence? Can we do so in a meaningful and knowing participation in the tragic, not as a closed drama based on myth, but as an incomplete and unfolding drama? Such a text can be interpellated through ongoing redemptive critique rather than imbedded in redemptive finality. This redemptive critique characterized by a collective conscience of how history might have been different
The Rouse Company - Columbia, Maryland
No full textThe Rouse Company, a development firm headed by James Rouse, is responsible for the creation of Columbia, Maryland. The community consists of ten self-contained villages which were established in the late 1960s.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1353/thumbnail.jp
Fisherman’s Memorial - Land’s End
No full textThe Fisherman’s Memorial Statue at Land’s End on Bailey Island in Maine. The statue bears the inscription, to all Maine Fisherman who have devoted their lives to the sea” in honor of the state’s lobster fisherman. The statue is a replica of the original created for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. The statue stands along the Potomac river.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1335/thumbnail.jp
Norfolk: Commercial Park
No full textPhotograph of Commercial Park in Norfolk. Commercial Park sits between MacArthur Square and the Confederate Monument, on East Main and Plume Street.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1566/thumbnail.jp
Hirshhorn Museum
No full textThe Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, a Smithsonian institution, is an architectural landmark in Washington D.C. The garden added to the architectural significance, featuring sculptural pieces in the grounds surrounding the museum.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1372/thumbnail.jp
Charles A. Hopkins House, Parade Street
No full textPictured on the far left is the Charles A. Hopkins House built in 1875 on Parade Street. Purchased in October 1980 by the Providence Preservation Society, this house was the society’s first restoration project in this neighborhood. The building style reflects late Gothic vernacular French buildings.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1122/thumbnail.jp