Sarah and Thomas Doyle House

Thomas Doyle (1827–1886) was mayor of Providence for 18 years for three separate periods between 1864 and 1886. He built the current city hall and founded Roger Williams Park. The house at the corner of Bassett and Chestnut streets, where he lived from 1851–1869, had been built in 1825 by the mason Samuel Lewis. Doyle’s sister Sarah (1830–1922), a noted educator and reformer, also lived there. She was a charter member of the corporation of the Rhode Island School of Design and served as secretary from 1877 to 1899. She successfully campaigned for the admission of women to Brown University. In the 1920s, the house was used by a small company to make jewelry supplies and fittings.