• Brown University, Chartered in 1764, is the country's 17th oldest college.
  
  
• Corliss-Brackett House, used by Brown University as it's Admission Office and is located on Prospect Street in Providence at the top of college hill. This house has the first elevator installed, a carriage house and it is believed that below the basement are the passages used in the Underground Railroad from the south, Quakers helping slaves. This house is truly a mansion with lots of unique things in there. Air conditioning etc. the first in the country.
  
  
• The John Carter Brown Library with its collection of early Americana.
  
  
• The First Baptist Church in America, meetinghouse of the nation's oldest Baptist congregation, founded by Roger Williams in 1638. The structure was dedicated in 1775 and designed by Joseph Brown. The church has a carved wood interior and a Waterford crystal chandelier. Built by ships' carpenters in 1775, it survived the gale of 1875 and the hurricane of 1938.
  
  
• The Gaspee Room removed from the Sabin Tavern where the raid on the Gaspee was organized - the first armed resistance by American colonists to British authority.
  
  
• Old State House, built in 1762, became Rhode Island's Independance Hall, where the colony was declared a free republic on May 4, 1776.
  
  
• Roger William's Square marks the landing point where Roger Williams was greeted by Indians in 1636.
  
  
• Roger Williams Park is located near Cranston town line, R.I. 12
  
  
• The Museum of Natural History contains Indian artifacts.
  
  
• Roger Williams Spring and site of original house built in 1637 is near the original Providence settlement.
  
  
• The Rhode Island Historical Society
  
  
• Shakespeare Head House (1763) the first bookstore and post office, where William Goddard printed the Providence Gazette and Country Journal.
  
  
• Stephen Hopkins House, home of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, was first built around 1707 and added to in 1743.
  
  
• Old Market House (1774), Market Square, where a Providence Tea Party was plotted and French soldiers were later quartered on the second floor.
  
  
• The Providence Athenaeum, was established in 1753 and is among the oldest lending libraries in the world.
  
  
• The First Unitarian Church of Providence, built in 1816. The church's bell tower contains the largest bell ever cast in Paul Revere's foundry, weighing 2,500 pounds.
  
  
• The Arcade Building newly refurbished, called "the 1st mall in the country"
  

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