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Providence Biltmore Hotel The Providence Biltmore Hotel includes the 8,000-square-foot Mccormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant. A 3,000-square-foot Starbucks is located off the hotel's lobby and includes a fireplace and leather sofas. The hotel offers 19,000 square feet of meeting space …more
Courtyard by Marriott Providence Downtown The Courtyard By Marriott Providence features 216 spacious guestrooms, which combine comfort and functionality. Amenities include high-speed internet access, satellite television and coffeemakers. Refrigerators are available upon request …more
Known as America's "Renaissance City," Providence is a center of arts, culture and education.
As the second-largest city in New England, Providence is home to diverse peoples and institutions, such as Brown and two of its academic partners, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Tony-award winning Trinity Repertory Company.
Splayed across seven hills on the Providence and Seekonk rivers, Providence was Rhode Island's first settlement, founded "in commemoration of God's providence" on land given to Roger Williams by the Narragansett Indians (his insistence that Indians should be paid for their land being waived in his own case). It has been the state capital since 1901, and flourished as one of the most important ports of call in the notorious "triangle trade." Since Slater's invention of the water-powered textile mill, port trade and industry have been the mainstays of the economy.
Today the many original colonial homes on Benefit Street emphasize a historical importance almost absent from the downtown across the river. Ethnic diversity is provided by Little Italy on Federal Hill, west of the river, and by fairly voluble Greek and Portuguese and especially Cape Verdean communities.
First-time visitors are drawn to the charming four-acre Waterplace Park and Riverwalk; as well as the shops, cafés and galleries on Wickenden Street, the Italian section on Federal Hill, and the hip College Hill area.
