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The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
Private library, oldest library building in the U.S. Rhode Island Historical Society: Providence: Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society library Robert Beverly Hale Library South Kingstown: Washington: Ocean State Libraries: Robert L. Carothers Library: Kingston: Washington: University of Rhode Island research library
The College Hill Historic District is located in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District on December 30, 1970. The College Hill local historic district, established in 1960 (and expanded in 1990), partially overlaps the national landmark district.
The Rochambeau Library— A Community Library of Providence is an historic public library building at 708 Hope Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It was originally a single-story brick structure with limestone trim, designed by Wallis E. Howe and built in 1930.
To name two, Rhode Island is home to Touro Synagogue, which was built in 1763 making it the oldest in the country and the aptly named First Baptist Church established by Roger Williams in 1638 ...
Northeast face on Empire Street, Addition in 1954 Library interior in 2019. Providence Public Library of Providence, Rhode Island was founded in 1875. The central library building at 225 Washington Street opened in 1900 and was constructed in a Renaissance style with private donations including a large donation from John Nicholas Brown I, and a large addition was built in 1954. [4]
Area around Smith's Castle, one of Rhode Island's oldest houses, built on the site of an early trading post established by Roger Williams. 12: College Hill Historic District: College Hill Historic District: December 30, 1970 : Providence
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