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Providence Athenaeum interior in 2012. The Providence Athenaeum is an independent, member-supported subscription library in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The building is open to the public, but only members can check out items from the collection.
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
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Abraham Redwood (February 15, 1709 – March 7, 1788) was a West Indies merchant, slave trader, plantation owner, and philanthropist from Newport, Rhode Island.He is the namesake of the Redwood Library and Anthenaeum, one of the oldest libraries in the United States.
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The College Hill Historic District is located in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District on December 30, 1970. The College Hill local historic district, established in 1960 (and expanded in 1990), partially overlaps the national landmark district.
Providence Athenaeum, Providence, Rhode Island, unknown Italian artist, c.1830s [53] The Greenbrier , White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, by Jane Stuart, mid-19th century [ 54 ] Reduced-size portrait, Redwood Library and Athenaeum , Newport, Rhode Island, Jane Stuart, mid-19th century [ 55 ]