Neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island

The city of Providence, Rhode Island has 25 official neighborhoods.[1]

Smith Hill forms one of the neighborhoods on Providence's North End
Map of Providence neighborhoods
College Hill, on Providence's East Side overlooks Downtown

Many of these neighborhoods are often grouped together referred to collectively:

  • East Side - region of Blackstone, Hope (aka Summit), Mount Hope, College Hill, Wayland, and Fox Point.[2]
  • Jewelry District - the area around Davol Square. This area will be united with Downtown after the completion of the Iway project to move I-195 south.[3][4]
  • North End - sometimes given collectively to the neighborhoods of Charles, Wanskuck, Smith Hill, Elmhurst, and Mount Pleasant.[3]
  • South Side or South Providence - region consisting of the neighborhoods of Elmwood, Lower South Providence, Upper South Providence, West End, and Washington Park.[3]
    Elmwood is part of Providence's South Side

The oldest, highest density neighborhoods are either those close to downtown or proximate to the Woonasquatucket River, which provided a power source for early industrialization in Manton, Hartford, and Olneyville. More distant neighborhoods developed later, mostly as transportation as public horse car and streetcar lines were added.

References
  1. "Providence Neighborhoods". City of Providence. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
  2. "Providence Neighborhood Profiles: Alternative Neighborhood Names". The Providence Plan. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
  3. Providence Neighborhood Profiles Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. The Jewelry District
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