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Butler Hospital
Care New England



Geography
Location	Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Coordinates	41°50′46.68″N 71°23′09.93″W / 41.8463000°N 71.3860917°W / 41.8463000; -71.3860917
Organization
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	No
Speciality	Behavioral Health
History
Constructed	1844
Links
Website	www.butler.org
Lists	Hospitals in Rhode Island


Butler Hospital
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island
Built	1844
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	76000041 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 8, 1976

Butler Hospital buildings

1886 engraving

Duncan Building, Stone, Carpenter, and Willson (1875)

Weld House, Hoppin & Ely (1900)

Potter Building, Jackson and Adams (1912)

Butler Hospital is a private, non-profit, psychiatric and substance abuse hospital for adolescents, adults, and seniors, located at 345 Blackstone Boulevard in Providence, Rhode Island. The hospital is affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and serves as a teaching hospital for Brown University's department of psychiatry.^[2] Butler Hospital was a founding member, along with Women & Infants Hospital and Kent Hospital, of the Care New England health system in 1996.^[3]

History

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The facility was founded in 1844 as Rhode Island's first exclusively mental health hospital. Industrialist Cyrus Butler donated heavily to the hospital, and it was named in his honor. Local Yankee philanthropist Nicholas Brown, Jr. also bequeathed a large amount of money to construct a mental health hospital which was used to fund the early hospital.^[4]

Butler Hospital's Gothic Revival complex was built beginning with its founding in 1844, and includes a 1731 farmhouse that stood on the property when it was acquired by the hospital.^[5] The hospital complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

In 1996, Butler Hospital joined with Women & Infants Hospital and Kent Hospital to create the Care New England Health System.^[3]

Current operations

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Mary Marran is the president and chief operating officer.^[6]

References

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↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
↑ "Affiliated Hospitals". The Warren Alpert Medical School. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
1 2 "Care New England and TPC Announce Affiliation". The Providence Center. March 18, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2026.
↑ Ancestry.com information about Butler
↑ "NRHP nomination for Butler Hospital" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
↑ Chiappa, Claudia (December 9, 2022). "HARI elects new chairwoman, vice chairman to board of trustees". Providence Business News. Retrieved April 1, 2026.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island
Historic districts	Andrew Dickhaut Cottages Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat Blackstone Boulevard–Cole Avenue–Grotto Avenue Blackstone Park Bridgham–Arch–Wilson Streets Broadway–Armory Customhouse Downtown Providence Doyle Avenue Elmgrove Gardens Elmwood Freeman Plat Hope–Power–Cooke Streets Moshassuck Square Neutaconkanut Hill Park Norwood Avenue Oakland Avenue Olney Street–Alumni Avenue Parkis–Comstock Pekin Street Pine Street Power Street–Cooke Street Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Rhodes Street Roger Williams Park Smith Hill State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children Stimson Avenue Summit Trinity Square Wanskuck Wayland Wesleyan Avenue Westminster Street
Historic properties	A.F. Cappelli Block All Saints Memorial Church Candace Allen House Zachariah Allen House America Street School American Brewing Company Plant Arnold–Palmer House Aylesworth Apartments Beaman and Smith Company Mill Bell Street Chapel Beneficent Congregational Church Temple Beth-El Blackstone Canal William J. Braitsch and Company Plant Brick Schoolhouse Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company Complex Morris Brown House Burrows Block Butler Hospital Calvary Baptist Church Dr. George W. Carr House Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul Central Diner Chemical Building, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant Christ Episcopal Church Congdon Street Baptist Church Constance Witherby Park Copley Chambers Corliss–Brackett House John Corliss House Covell Street School Susan S. and Edward J. Cutler House Davol Rubber Company Richard Henry Deming House Edward Dexter House Jeremiah Dexter House Dominic Hall Charles Dowler House Dyerville Mill Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex Elizabeth Building Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station Federal Building First Universalist Church General Ice Cream Corporation Building Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church Grace Church Joseph Haile House Hay and Owen Buildings Heaton and Cowing Mill Hope Block and Cheapside Esek Hopkins House Thomas F. Hoppin House Jones Warehouses Josephine White Block Ladd Observatory Louttit Laundry Matthew Lynch House Market House Martin Hall Israel B. Mason House Mechanical Fabric Company Merchants Bank Building Moses Brown School National and Providence Worsted Mills New England Butt Company Nicholson File Company Mill Complex North Burial Ground Old State House Ontario Apartments Oriental Mills Our Lady of Lourdes Church Complex Nathaniel Pearce House Perkins Buildings Plain Farm House Plymouth Congregational Church Poirier's Diner Providence City Hall Providence Dyeing, Bleaching, Calendring Company Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse Company Building Providence Gas Company Purifier House Providence Lying-In Hospital Providence Performing Arts Center Providence Steel and Iron Company Complex Providence Telephone Building Renaissance Providence Hotel Reservoir Avenue Sewage Pumping Station Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building Rhode Island Medical Society Building Rhode Island State House Rhode Island Tool Company building Rochambeau Library-Providence Community Library Rochambeau Worsted Company Mill Roger Williams National Memorial Joseph and William Russell House St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Saint Martin's Church St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Convent, Rectory, and School S. Stephen's Church Shakespeare Hall Shepard Company Building Sludge Press House, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant Smith Hill Library-Providence Community Library Smith Street Primary School Sons of Jacob Synagogue South Providence Library-Providence Community Library South Street Station David Sprague House State Arsenal Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Company Complex Swan Point Cemetery Trinity Repertory Company Union Station Union Trust Company Building United States Customshouse United States Rubber Company Mill Complex Veterans Memorial Auditorium Providence Biltmore Wanskuck Library-Providence Community Library Washington Park Sewage Pumping Station Weybosset Mills Complex Winsor–Swan–Whitman Farm Woods–Gerry House
National Historic Landmark Districts	College Hill Historic District
National Historic Landmarks	Nelson W. Aldrich House John Brown House Corliss–Carrington House First Baptist Church in America Fleur-de-lys Studios Governor Stephen Hopkins House Thomas P. Ives House Governor Henry Lippitt House Nightingale–Brown House University Hall, Brown University Westminster Arcade
Former	North Freight Station Statue of Christopher Columbus
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island, and List of National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island

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