Looking east down Washington Street into downtown. The Regency apartments, a product of 1960s urban renewal, don’t play as big a role in the city view from most perspectives.

Closer in, you see just a few of the city’s profusion spires, domes and cupolas, and the Biltmore hotel, of brick, that blocks out the Regency in crucial views from the east.

Even closer. Ah, that’s better. I was so excited to find the Regency edged out of my frame that my camera must’ve shook a little bit, hence the blur. It wasn’t that I was shooting while driving.

Heading east on Weybosset you see one of the best jumbles of architecture in the city. The Industrial Trust (“Superman”) Building, left of center, is still unoccupied. Any takers?

Further east on Weybosset is the curvature of street that won my heart and sold me on living in Providence (in 1984, plus a job offer). The Arcade, America’s oldest mall, is left of center.

Weybosset meets Westminster just before the Providence River. Beyond, at the base of College Hill, is RISD’s waterfront campus, including the 2007 addition by Rafael Moneo to the RISD Museum.

Not a great shot of the Providence County Superior Court, whose design so enthralled H.P. Lovecraft, but this is the view just before you cross the Providence River to College Hill.

To the left before chugging uphill: The city and state gave RISD a free waterfront campus, and in return it gave the city Moneo’s addition, which is like a graffartist defacing a da Vinci.

Up College Street toward Brown between delightful brick buildings, RISD’s curving College Edifice at left, and at right the courthouse, possibly the world’s largest Georgian building.

After a left onto Benefit Street you can look back down Angell Street into the city between the nation’s first Baptist church, left, and the buildings of the Providence Art Club, right.

Some of the Colonials that line much of the west side of the northern end of Benefit Street, “Providence’s Mile of History,” with almost every variety of traditional building.

Looking down Church Street, you see the R.I. State House (1900, McKim Mead & White) in the distance. The red house at right is where Edgar Allan Poe met Sarah Whitman.