Warwick Civic Center Historic District
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Warwick Civic Center Historic District
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| Location | Warwick, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°41′57″N 71°27′31″W / 41.69917°N 71.45861°WCoordinates: 41°41′57″N 71°27′31″W / 41.69917°N 71.45861°W |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architect | William R. Walker & Son; Hoppin, Field & Peirce; Jackson, Robertson & Adams |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 80000079 |
| Added to NRHP | June 27, 1980 |
The Warwick Civic Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing three buildings at the civic heart of Warwick, Rhode Island.
The three buildings are Warwick City Hall, the Henry Warner Budlong Memorial Library, the Kentish Artillery Armory. Prior to its demolition the Old Fire Station was also included. The first three buildings line the north side of Post Road just east of the junction of US Route 1 and Rhode Island Route 117, where the village of Apponaug was established in the 17th century. All were built between 1890 and 1925; the fire station, which then housed social services agencies, was, before its demolition, the oldest.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
This building was built in 1912 on the site of a former armory, built in 1854, that had been destroyed by fire. The old building was in the Greek Revival style, like Apponaug's other early civic buildings. Designed by prolific Rhode Island architects William R. Walker & Son, the new building was designed in what was at the time called "a castellated style". The building was occupied for armory purposes until 1977, when the last member of the Kentish Guard died. At that time the building was deeded to the city, which rented the building to the Warwick Museum, now the Warwick Museum of Art, which has remained there ever since.
Formerly mounted on the building's facade were two cannons which dated back to the American Revolution. They went missing in 1972, and they have never been found. Taking their place are two wooden replicas.
Built circa 1890, Apponaug's former fire station was a much altered Queen Anne style wooden building. After outliving its use as a fire station, the building was used as the offices of social service agencies and the municipal employees' credit union. Since the district's listing on the NRHP, this building has been demolished.
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