A Place for Your Ideas

Roger Williams lived in Rhode Island and left a philosophical legacy of incomparable worth, with outstanding contributions to the development of the principles of freedom in the United States. Congress created this memorial in 1965 after the site, drastically changed since the 1950s, had seen industry move away, infrastructure deteriorate, retail follow the population to the suburbs, and the land cleared as an urban renewal project for a new use.

Providence, Rhode Island · United States