Identifier: providenceincolo00inkimb (find matches)
Title: Providence in colonial times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910
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Publisher: Boston & New York : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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wen) for four hun-dred dollars. When the fixing of the College edifice here wasfirmly settled, writes Moses Brown to PresidentWayland in 1833, our house, then composed of fourbrothers, viz., Nicholas, Joseph, John, and MosesBrown, concluded to take charge of building thenecessary buildings, purchasing land for the same,etc. Records and balance-sheets are still in exist-ence to prove the careful detail and elaborate preci-sion with which each disbursement was laid out andaccounted for. The postage of a letter to Philadel-phia, a months work at the foundation, 5^ gall.West India rum for the digging of the well, sevensquares glass in Mr. Snows meeting house, broke atCommencement, are entered side by side with astated equivalent of pounds, shillings, and pence. Ol© view of the First College Building and thePresidents House, erected 1770 From an early engraving, made by S. Hill after a draw-ing by D. Leonard. ads vva^ 3Hr aviA ovriaviiu9 aoaj.ioO Tfey; (^ .fvu-.n.r, T a v,f ^.^rrl i and e
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%hode Island College 35 3 The first presidents house was contemporary withthe College edifice. It stood about a hundred feetin front, and a little to the right, of the main building.In 1840, a new and elegant mansion for the use ofthe college executive was built across the street fromthe college yard, at the corner of College and Pro-spect Streets, and the old house entered on its down-ward career, literally as well as metaphorically. Itwas removed to a site on the north side of CollegeStreet, below Benefit, where its identity is well-nighlost in that of the uninviting row of buildings. For five years after the removal to Providence,commencements were held in the meeting-house ofthe worthy Mr. Joseph Snow, on the West Side of theriver, and this for the excellent reason that no otherbuilding in town could accommodate the throngs ofinterested listeners. Although the college was small and poor, it enjoyedthe utmost respect and consideration at the hands ofits fellow-townsmen. The commenc

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