Aldrich Field on Elmgrove Avenue was dedicated at a baseball game on May 16, 1925, before a crowd of 7000, which filled the new grandstand and "a small wooden stand ... hastily erected to accommodate the overflow."Aldrich Field
The building cost 7000 pounds, of which 2000 pounds was raised by a state-authorized lottery.First Baptist Church
In 1840 a new president’s house was erected on land donated by Nicholas Brown at the corner of Prospect and College Street (the present site of the John HayLibrary) at a cost of $7000, which had been raised by subscription along with the funds for the building of Rhode Island Hall.President’s House