Market Sq., Providence, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1972. NRIS 72000001.
1 contributing building.
The Market House is a historic three-story brick market house in Market Square, in the College Hill, a neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The building was constructed between 1773 and 1775 and designed by prominent local architects, Joseph Brown and Declaration of Independence signer Stephen Hopkins. The bottom floor of the house was used as a market, and the upper level was used for holding meetings. Similar buildings existed in other American cities, such as Faneuil Hall in Boston and the Old Brick Market in Newport. The building housed the Providence City Council in the decades before the completion of City Hall.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375345