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History

Believed to be the largest wood-frame Federal-style home still in existence, the Nightingale-Brown house was built in 1792 by Providence architect Caleb Ormsbee for local merchant Captain Joseph Nightingale. Ormsbee also built the home of Nightingale’s business partner, Joseph Clark, at 407-409 Benefit Street. John Nicholas Brown purchased the home in 1814, after the death of Nightingale and the home remained in the Brown family until the end of the twentieth century. During the 1860s, an ell was added to house then-occupant John Carter Brown’s collection of Americana. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed the yard for the home in 1892.
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