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The Nightingale–Brown House, Providence, RI.

Designed by Rhode Island architect Thomas Tefft, it is a National Historic Landmark and the location of the J. N. Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Built for Captain Jos. Nightingale in 1792 and sold to Nicholas Brown in 1814; donated to Brown U. in 1985. Additions were made by architect Richard Upjohn in 1853 and 64; the grounds were landscaped by Frederick L. Olmstead in 1890.

 

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Uploaded on March 22, 2009