Brown University – College Hill Campus

Roger Williams founded Providence in 1636 as a haven for religious exiles. Brown University arrived in 1770, when the college relocated from Warren to College Hill — a move that signaled Providence's rising dominance over Newport. Founded in 1764, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The university is surrounded by a federally listed architectural district holding one of America's richest concentrations of 18th- and 19th-century architecture along Benefit Street.