Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Brown University, 1898

Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.

Brown was founded in 1764 — the third college in New England and the seventh in Colonial America. Brown was the first Ivy League school to accept students from all religious affiliations...

Originally located in Warren, Rhode Island, and called the College of Rhode Island, Brown moved to its current spot on College Hill overlooking Providence in 1770 and was renamed in 1804 in recognition of a $5,000 gift from Nicholas Brown, a prominent Providence businessman and alumnus, Class of 1786.

Women were first admitted to Brown in 1891...
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Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Arcade, Providence
THE HISTORY & TOPOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, published by J & F Tallis in London about 1850.

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Scenes in Providence
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

View of Providence, from the South, 1898

Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

The Capitol, 1898

Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.