Pembroke College, Providence

Pembroke College was founded in 1891 as a higher education institution for women who were not allowed to attend Brown University. It was merged with Brown in 1971.

The first building of Pembroke College was Pembroke Hall, built in 1897. Pembroke Hall was named after Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, studied. The original Pembroke Hall was founded by Mare de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Pembroke Hall is now the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Cogut Center for the Humanities.

Sayles Gym, now known as Smith-Buonanno Hall, was the original gymnasium for Pembroke College. This building was constructed in 1891. It included a track, a bowling alley and a resting room, which was a type of lounge common in women's colleges at the time. Smith-Buonanno Hall is now a banquet hall.

Other buildings on the Pembroke College campus include Alumnae Hall, Andrews Hall, the buildings of the Pembroke Quad and the buildings of New Pembroke.