Book Review: The Rhode Island State House tour

Edward Sanderson, executive director, Deputy Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, State House Preservation Office; Kim Messer, Public Information Office. The Office does not employ curators and conservators; the actual care of the building is shared between the Secretary of State and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, a state agency, which serves as an authority and an advisor to the State on the heritage and conservation issues. The Senate gallery, the State of Rhode Island Honour Rolls, the Representative Gallery; the Library; the Senate Chamber; the 1663 Royal Charter of Rhode Island, a bust of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, a suffragist and an abolitionist; the Governor Reception Room; the Seal of the State of Rhode Island, which is placed on the floor of the marble landing of the staircase; and finally the Gettysburg gun. The neighborhood offers a low-key yet stunning mix of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century landmark structuresFirst Unitarian Church, the Providence Athenaeum, Rhode Island School of Design, the Nightingale-Brown House, and privately owned homes.