William D. Warner

William D. Warner FAIA (1929–2012) was an American architect and urban planner in practice in Providence and Exeter, Rhode Island from 1959 to 2012.

[1] Published in 1959, their report, College Hill: A Demonstration Study of Historic Area Renewal, was influential in both local and national preservation practices.

In 1981 a group of three architects, Friedrich St. Florian, Irving B. Haynes and Warner, devised the original scheme for what would become Waterplace Park.

[7] Warner was a 2003 recipient, with Barnaby Evans, of the Kevin Lynch Award and was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2004.

[1] In the 1970s they purchased Locust Valley Farm in Exeter, where he would live and work for the rest of his life, building a house on the property and moving his practice into Lawton's Mill.

The Woonsocket Harris Public Library in Woonsocket , completed in 1974.
Winston Clock Tower of the Rhode Island School of Design , completed in 1987.
Waterplace Park , completed in 1994, and surrounding buildings.
The John Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts of Rhode Island College , completed in 2000.
The Providence River Bridge , completed in 2007, with the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in the foreground.