Brown University Campus, Providence, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000003.
1 contributing building.
University Hall is the first and oldest building on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Built in 1770, the building is one of only seven extant college buildings built prior to the American Revolution. According to architectural historian Bryant F. Tolles Jr., the structure is "one of the genuine icons of early American collegiate architecture."
The building occupies a central part of the university's front campus and is framed by the Van Wickle Gates.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41374707