Show notes
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
- 32:70