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Benefit Street
Immediately east of downtown, you'll find College Hill, where you can see the city's colonial history reflected in the 18th-century houses that line Benefit Street on the East Side. These are, for the most part, private homes, but many are open for tours one weekend in mid-June during the annual Festival of Historic Homes. Benefit St is a fitting symbol of the Providence renaissance, rescued by local preservationists in the 1960s from misguided urban-renewal efforts that would have destroyed it.
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John Brown House
On College Hill, the brick John Brown House - called the 'most magnificent and elegant mansion that I have ever seen on this continent' by John Quincy Adams - was built in 1786.
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Stephen Hopkins House
Benefit St is a fitting symbol of the Providence renaissance, rescued by local preservationists in the 1960s from misguided urban-renewal efforts that would have destroyed it. One of its treasures is the 1708 Stephen Hopkins House, named for the ten-time governor and Declaration of Independence signer.
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