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The following is a list of buildings at Brown University. Five buildings are listed with the United States Department of the Interior's National Register of Historic Places: University Hall (1770), Nightingale–Brown House (1792), Gardner House (1806), Corliss–Brackett House (1887), and the Ladd Observatory (1891). [1]
University Hall bears a strong resemblance to Nassau Hall at Princeton, as it appeared prior to alterations. Joseph Brown is most frequently posited as the chief architect of the structure. While Brown was clearly involved in the design process, historian Lawrence C. Wroth disputes sources attributing the structure solely to the amateur ...
Unfortunately the plan of the first floor is missing, al- though the plans of the basement and the three upper floors remain. Through the kindness of Mr. Norman M. Isham, class of '86, these plans are reproduced to accompany this article, together with a plan of the first floor compiled from the recollections of Mr. Anthony McCabe.
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The Women's College in Brown University, known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891. Upon its 1971 merger with the College of Brown University, Pembroke's campus was absorbed into the larger Brown campus. The Pembroke campus is bordered by Meeting, Brown, Bowen, and Thayer Streets and sits three blocks north of Brown's central campus.
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Brown University acquired the building in 1922 to house faculty and graduate students and converted the first floor into its faculty club. [6] [7] The new facility opened in March 1923 on Visiting Day in the presence of "more than 200 alumni, many members of the corporation and board of trustees, and practically all the faculty." [15] [16]