Nightingale-Brown House

Nightingale-Brown House

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caption = Front elevation, 2008
location= 357 Benefit St., Providence, RI
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 49
lat_seconds = 22
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 24
long_seconds = 13
long_direction = W
locmapin = Rhode Island
area =
built =1792
architect= Caleb Ormsbee
architecture= American Colonial, Georgian, Italianate
designated= June 29, 1989cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2067&ResourceType=Building
title=Nightingale-Brown House |accessdate=2008-06-29|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = June 29, 1989cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Brown University
refnum=89001242The Nightingale-Brown House is a National Historic Landmark at 357 Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, that is home to the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University.

In 1792 Captain Joseph Nightingale built the house. In 1814 Nicholas Brown Jr. purchased the home and his family owned the house until 1985 until the death of John Nicholas Brown and Anne Brown. Architects Thomas Tefft and Richard Upjohn made additions in 1853 and 1864, respectively. Frederick Law Olmstead landscaped the grounds in 1890.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/89001242.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: _____] |32 KB|date=, 19 |author=___NPS PDF FOCUS WEBSITE DOWN 6.29.08 ADD LATER____ |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/89001242.pdf "Accompanying ____ photos, exterior and interior, from 19___"] |32 KB]

It is included in the College Hill Historic District.

References

External links

* [http://www.brown.edu/Research/JNBC/about.html Brown House website]


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