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John Brown House, Providence RI |
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One of the fanciest historic houses on College Hill, the late-Georgian mansion constructed in 1786 is now owned and operated by the Rhode Island Historical Society. |
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Proclaimed by John Quincy Adams to be "the most magnificent and elegant private mansion that I have seen on this continent," this restored house-museum at 52 Power Street (tel 401-331-8593) reveals the prosperity of post-Revolutionary Providence and houses an outstanding collection of furnishings and decorative arts. John Brown was a merchant whose ships plied the seas both east and west out of Narragansett Bay and ultimately made him a wealthy man. The Brown family, by the way, had been prominent in Providence commerce and industry since the early 1700s. John's brother, Moses, joined with Samuel Slater to set up the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America in 1790, now known as Slater Mill. One of his nephews, Nicholas Brown, was a graduate of Rhode Island College, which was later renamed Brown College (and later, University) in his honor.
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The John Brown House, on the Brown University campus on College Hill in Providence RI.
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