The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.
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The Great Seal of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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| RHODE ISLAND John Brown House, Providence
The John Brown House is the first mansion built in Providence (1786-88). It is named after the original owner, a merchant, statesman and slave trader. John Quincy Adams considered the house "the most magnificent and elegant private mansion that I have ever seen on this continent."
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