Welcome to
The Stephen Hopkins House
Official Website
15 Hopkins Street (at Benefit Street)Providence, RI 02903
shh1707@gmail.com
Open year-round on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Also open April through November on Saturdays from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (later on WaterFire full lightings).
Open by appointment.
Guided tours of the 1707 home of Declaration-signer Stephen Hopkins, his family, and their slaves for four decades, on Benefit Street’s “Mile of History”, a block from Brown University, the RISD Museum, and WaterFire. This 8-room house full of antiques and Hopkins heirlooms includes the bedchamber where George Washington slept, as well as a slaves’ room and gallery currently showing a collection of 18th century samplers.
West side SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS STEPHEN HOPKINS, OF REVOLUTIONARY FAME, ATTESTED BY HIS SIGNATURE TO THE DECLARATION OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. GREAT IN COUNCIL, FROM SAGACITY OF MIND; MAGNANIMOUS IN SENTIMENT, FIRM IN PURPOSE, AND GOOD, AS GREAT, FROM BENEVOLENCE OF HEART; HE STOOD IN THE FRONT RANK OF STATESMEN AND PATRIOTS. SELF-EDUCATED, YET AMONG THE MOST LEARNED OF MEN; HIS VAST TREASURY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, HIS GREAT RETENTIVE AND REFLECTIVE POWERS, COMBINED WITH HIS SOCIAL NATURE, MADE HIM THE MOST INTERESTING OF COMPANIONS IN PRIVATE LIFE. North side HERE lies the man in fateful hour, Who boldly stemm’d tyrannic pow’r. And held his hand in that decree, Which bade America BE FREE! —Arnold’s poems |
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