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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
 27 drawings |  12 b&w photos |  12 data pages |
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TITLE:
Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
CALL NUMBER:
HABS RI,3-NEWP,29-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 27 (18 x 24 in.)
Photo(s): 12 (5 x 7 in. and 8 x 10 in.)
Data Page(s): 11 plus cover page
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.
CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Harrison, Peter
NOTE:
Survey number HABS RI-278
Building/structure dates: 1763 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1829 subsequent work
Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and galleries, is a rich, sophisticated work characteristic of English and Continental design of the mid-18th century.
SUBJECTS:
RHODE ISLAND--Newport County--Newport
OTHER TITLE:
Touro Synagogue National Historic Site
COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ri0083
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF WEST FACADE FROM SOUTHWEST.
2. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF ENTRANCE GATE.
3. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 FRONT AND SIDE ELEVATIONS (VIEW FROM YARD).
4. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF WEST FACADE FROM NORTHWEST.
5. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF SOUTH FACADE FROM SOUTH.
6. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. LeBoeuf, Photographer, 1937 ENTRANCE PORCH.
7. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 ENTRANCE DETAIL FROM SOUTHWEST
8. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. LeBoeuf, Photographer, 1937 INTERIOR OF OUTSIDE DOORWAY.
9. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF INTERIOR FROM WEST.
10. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. LeBoeuf, Photographer, 1937 PULPIT AND GALLERY.
11. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF INTERIOR OF DOOR FROM EAST.
12. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer June, 1971 VIEW OF CEMETARY GATES AT SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BELLUVUE AVENUE AND KAY STREET.
CONTROL #:
RI0083
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