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SNAP: Stairs at the RISD Museum

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On our way home from Nantucket, we spent a day in Providence, Rhode Island. It had been nearly 40 years since we’d last been there, and we knew a lot had changed. We had a wonderful day, shopping on Hope Street, browsing on Thayer Street (the Brown University College Town), and spent two hours at the lovely Rhode Island School of Design Museum. It has a large permanent collection spanning from antiquity to contemporary art, and we enjoyed it all. As we walked from gallery to gallery, I was taken with the variety of staircases, and took photos of many of them with a SNAP collection in mind.

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Here are a couple more shots from Providence.

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They’ve done a beautiful job of restoring the waterfront.  I’d love to return some day to see the Waterfire display. Sadly, it wasn’t scheduled for the Saturday evening we were there.

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Here you can see the braziers along each side of the river which are lit during Waterfire.

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This is the view of downtown Providence from Prospect Terrace Park.

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Providence is the capital of Rhode Island, and although I had another closer photo of the capital building, I preferred this view. 

Linking up with Helena and other SNAP enthusiasts.

14 thoughts on “SNAP: Stairs at the RISD Museum”

  1. Those stairs make for an interesting SNAP collection. I often stop at the landing or top of the stairways just to look for/at a possible pattern.
    One of my (many) older sisters lived in Rhode Island for a few years – she really liked it.

  2. I’d love to visit that museum – what fun to have a variety of stair tyeps – soemthing it is so easy to take for granted rather than admire their engineering and design

  3. Lovely staircases – I always try to remember to look up or down the centre of a particularly interesting flight. Spirals especially can reveal such interesting patterns.
    Great last photo of the capital building.

  4. Fabulous pictures as always Karen. I really love the stairs idea. I follow someone on Instagram who post lots of ‘stair’ pictures. Thank you also for thinking of me and taking the time to post me one of your very beautiful cards. I do so appreciate your friendship Karen x

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