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Arcade
Designed in 1828, the Arcade, America's first enclosed shopping center, uses a form developed in Paris and London. Greek Revival in design, the airy, tile-floored passage, its marble steps worn into bows by the passage of bygone feet, has shops and cafés on three floors. It looks like a temple from the outside, while inside it is much like a street - a straight corridor leads to a second entry on Washington St.
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Brown University Bookstore
Providence's most comprehensive bookstore.
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Map Center
If you want more maps than the visitor's center can provide (some local, some esoteric) as well as a small selection of guidebooks, try this center.
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Risdworks
One of Rhode Island School of Design's showcases, risdworks is a shop displaying an assortment of goods (jewelry, photographic prints, flatware, coffee tables, children's books) made by faculty and alumni.
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Tony's Colonial Food
Among the most colorful of Providence's neighborhoods is fervently Italian Federal Hill (when Tony Soprano's crew needed a special job done, they came here to enlist the aid of a geriatric, blind hit man). It's a great place to wander, taking in the aromas of sausages, peppers and garlic from neighborhood groceries such as Tony's Colonial Food.
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