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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]
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]
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 ...
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations .
Sayles Hall was built in memoriam of William Clark Sayles, who entered Brown in 1874 and died in 1876. [2] In 1878 Sayles' father gifted the school $50,000 for the construction of a building in his sons' honor “which shall be exclusively and forever devoted to lectures and recitations, and to meetings on academic occasions.” [1]
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center is a performing and visual arts facility at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [1] The building is located at 144 Angell Street on Brown's main campus in the city's College Hill neighborhood, and opened in October 2023.
1970s: Dorms transition from male graduate [8] housing to coed, [9] graduate and upperclass undergraduate [10] housing; 1986: Monroe Hill College residential college established [1] 1994: Renamed Brown College at Monroe Hill and made a permanent residential college [1] 1997: First years (30) are allowed to live in Brown College [11]
An American college dormitory room in 2002. A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, [1] often abbreviated to dorm), also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall (often abbreviated to halls), is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students.