Rhode Island Locomotive Works

[1] Earl Philip Mason, Jr. was born in Providence on August 5, 1848, and died at San Antonio, Texas, on March 17, 1901.

He received his early education at Mowry & Goff's School and at the Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The old Rhode Island Locomotive Works plant, along with the adjoining Nicholson File and United States Rubber Company buildings, was the center of a $333 million commercial and residential redevelopment project that went bankrupt in 2010.

[4][5] In 2013, The Foundry Associates, L.P., a privately owned real estate investment firm, acquired the property for $19.05 million and completed the development.

[6] Today it is an active office park with business tenants like United Natural Foods (UNFI), Equity National Title, RI Commerce Corporation, Brewster Thornton Architects, MMID Product Development and Fuss and O'Neill.

Built by Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1900, Boston & Maine Railroad locomotive #2911 is seen at Billerica, Massachusetts , in 1920. From the Joseph A. Smith Collection.