Knight Estate

The Knight Estate is a historic estate in Warwick, Rhode Island, that is home to the first location of the Community College of Rhode Island. In October 1964:

Royal Webster Knight, great grandson of Robert Knight of the famous B. B. & R. Knight Company and owner of the Pontiac Mill, gave eighty acres of his property in the Natick section of Warwick to the State of Rhode Island for a junior college campus ... This land, which included his large Federal and Greek Revival home and a number of excellent farm buildings, became the nucleus of the Knight Campus of Rhode Island Junior College (now the Community College of Rhode Island).[2]

Knight Estate
Location486 East Avenue,
Warwick, Rhode Island
Coordinates41.717372°N 71.480768°W / 41.717372; -71.480768
Built1830
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Federal
MPSWarwick MRA
NRHP reference No.84001864 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 23, 1984

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. http://www.warwickhistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179:ccri-moves-to-the-knight-estate-in-warwick&catid=46:knight-estate-&Itemid=99

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