45. ARCHITECTURE: Turk’s Head Building

Weird Island

How did the Turk’s Head building get its name? Well, it’s actually built on the site of a colonial house and a store that had an unusual sign mounted outside--a wooden carving of an Ottoman Sultan. The store became known as "at the Sign of the Turk's Head."

To visit: 1 Turk’s Head Place, Providence, RI 02903

Episode Source Material:

• Providence in Colonial Times | Gertrude Selwyn Kimball
• Old Providence: A Collection of Facts and Traditions Relating to Various Buildings and Sites of Historic Interest in Providence | The Merchants National Bank of Providence 1918
• Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society | Volume V 1897
• Providence Magazine | January 1917
• The Narragansett Historical Register: Volume VI | 1888
• Turks Head Building | Wikipedia
• Turks Head Building
• Sights ~ The Turk's Head Building ~ Providence | I {heart} Rhody
• National Register of Historic Places | Custom House District
• The Legend of "Turk's Head": In Charles Dexter Ward
• Providence Architecture | Locations | Turk's Head Building
• National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomiflation Form 1. Name ci 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5.
• A Walk Through Downtown Providence
• Flatiron Building - HISTORY
• A History Of Metals In Colonial America [PDF] [4c30ubrbld80]
• Ship figureheads and decoration | Royal Museums Greenwich.
• Providence besieged by Great Gale in 1815
• 1815 New England hurricane - Wikipedia
• The Great September Gale of 1815 - New England Historical Society
• Signs of the Times
• Jacob Whitman | Rhode Island, U.S., Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008