The Joseph Haile House (or Gardner House) is an historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

. It is a -story brick structure, appearing taller than that due to its hillside location and raised basement. It is a well-preserved example of Federal styling, which underwent a careful restoration in the 1930s by George Warren Gardner, who filled the house with early American furniture. The Gardners bequested the property to

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, which uses it to house visiting dignitaries. The house was listed on the

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in 1972.

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* Houses completed in 1806 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Brown University buildings Houses in Providence, Rhode Island Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island {{ProvidenceRI-struct-stub

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