The elegant house built in 1791-92 by Colonel Joseph Nightingale on what was still commonly called Back of Benefit Street represented the culmination of much more than one man’s successful efforts to achieve economic success and social status in Revolutionary-era Providence. Image courtesy John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Mansion on Benefit Street, now the headquarters of the John House,” the earliest known depiction of Joseph Nightingale’s In 1802, Alice Pelham Banniter painted “Mr. Nightingale’s
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