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English: Map of the campus of Brown University in Providence, RI, USA with buildings labeled. Labels based on information from Brown Campus Map Brown Map List of Brown properties This map of Providence, RI was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors.
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.
College Hill is home to Brown University's main campus, and most of the Rhode Island School of Design, whose buildings are adjacent to Brown, along the western slope of College Hill. The Moses Brown School, on Lloyd Avenue (the summit of College Hill) and the Wheeler School, on Hope Street, are notable private schools in the neighborhood.
The John Carter Brown Library, named for John Carter Brown (the son of Nicholas Brown), is an independently funded research library of the humanities housing one of the world's finest collections of rare books and maps relating to the European discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the New World until circa 1820. [63] [87]
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 ...
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The College of Brown University is the undergraduate school of Brown University, in College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island.Founded in 1764, the College is the university's oldest school and the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.