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Oliver A. Wickes House

Houses completed in 1855Houses in Warwick, Rhode IslandHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode IslandKent County, Rhode Island Registered Historic Place stubsNational Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Rhode Island
WarwickRI OliverWickesHouse
WarwickRI OliverWickesHouse

The Oliver A. Wickes House is a historic house in Warwick, Rhode Island. The two-story stone structure was built in 1855 in a vernacular Federal/Greek Revival transitional style. The house is the only known period stone house in Warwick, and one of a very small number in the state. It has a four-bay main facade with a recessed entry framed by sidelights and a transom window.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Oliver A. Wickes House
Major Potter Road, Warwick

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Major Potter Road 778
02818 Warwick
Rhode Island, United States
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The Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire

The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003 at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band Great White, a pyrotechnic display ignited flammable acoustic foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. Within six minutes, the entire building was engulfed in flames. The fire was the fourth-deadliest at a nightclub in U.S. history, and the second-deadliest in New England, behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, which resulted in 492 deaths. After the fire, multiple civil and criminal cases were filed. Daniel Biechele, the tour manager for Great White who had ignited the pyrotechnics, plead guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in 2006 and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison with four to serve. Biechele was released from prison in 2008 after some families of the victims expressed their support for his parole. Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, the owners of the Station, pleaded no contest and avoided a trial: Michael received the same sentence as Biechele and was released from prison in 2009, while Jeffrey received a sentence of 500 hours of community service. Legal action against several parties, including Great White, were resolved with monetary settlements by 2008. Station Fire Memorial Park, a permanent memorial to the victims of the fire, was opened in May 2017 at the site where the Station once stood.