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Like the house at 18 George Street, this is a typical turn-of-the-19th-century middle class house: 5 bays wide with a center entrance and exterior architectural focus on the principal doorway. Slightly later than the house on George Street, this has a center hallway penetrating into the mass of the house and chimneys located on the exterior side walls — a configuration coming into common use in the early years of the 19th century. The Doric entrance porch is unusual for smaller-scale Providence houses of this period, although it did appear more frequently in contemporary houses in northern Rhode Island.

— 2006 Festival of Historic Houses Guidebook


Isaac Brown Jr., House, c. 1804. Federal; 2-1/2 stories; clapboard with brick ends; gable roof with three exterior chimneys; 5 bay facade with central fanlight doorway and later Doric portico, ell on south.

— College Hill National Historic District; 1976

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