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John Brown House

Providence, US

John Brown House

The John Brown House borders the campus of Brown University at 52 Power Street on College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. Completed in 1788, it was the first mansion to be built in Providence and is named after its first owner, John Brown, a statesman, merchant, slave trader, and early benefactor

of the University. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The American president John Quincy Adams called it "the most magnificent and elegant private mansion that I have ever seen on this continent."

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