This publication resulted from a year-long, intensive neighborhood study undertaken by students in the Cultural and Historic Preservation Program (CHP) at Salve regina University. As a partner with the Rhode Island Satat Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, the CHP program offered a seminar in the fall of 2003 that taught students how to research and document an historic neighborhood according to the state's professional standard and how to conduct primary research on a historic neighborhood. Their work created the body of knowledge needed to nominate the neighborhood inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and to produce this publication.