Elizabeth Building

The Elizabeth Building is a historic commercial building at 100 North Main Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The five-story masonry building was built in 1872 for noted local developer Rufus Waterman. The building was designed by Alfred Stone[2] and is one of Providence's few surviving commercial buildings with a cast iron facade. The facade is five bays wide, the bays separated by engaged Corinthian columns, with each floor separated from the next by an entablature with bracketed frieze. The outer bays have paired windows, while the three inner bays have larger sash windows. The decorative elements of the main facade are continued for a bay with paired windows on the left side elevation.[3]

Elizabeth Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property
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Location	Providence, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°49′41″N 71°24′38″W
Built	1872
Architect	Alfred Stone
Architectural style	Italianate
Part of	College Hill Historic District (ID70000019)
NRHP reference No.	71000034 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 5, 1971
Designated NHLDCP	November 10, 1970

The Elizabeth Building was formerly accompanied by another building by Stone. This building, the Gilbert Congdon & Co. (Congdon & Carpenter) Building, was built in 1869 directly to the east, at Canal and Elizabeth Streets.[4][5] Now demolished, it was similar to the still-standing Owen Building of 1866.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]