On Congdon Street in the College Hill neighborhood, your Prospect Terrace Park earned the name The Jewel of the City. The park was founded in 1869 on land given to the city by residents of the neighborhood, and it has long been known as "The Jewel of the City" for its dramatic elevated view of Downtown Providence. You can imagine why author and Providence native H. P. Lovecraft frequently visited this place.
Nearby stands the granite statue of Roger Williams, designed by Ralph Thomas Walker and built in the late 1930s after Williams' descendant Stephen Randall made a deed of gift for the monument. It was dedicated on 29 June 1939. The approximately 15-foot tall statue commemorates Williams' founding of the state of Rhode Island and his promotion of religious freedom, and it depicts Williams gazing over the city.
In 1939 Roger Williams' remains were moved into a tomb directly beneath the statue; his body had once been overgrown by the roots of an apple tree beside his original grave until the roots covered the form so it looked similar to a human shape, and the remainder of his bones were reburied in a bronze casket placed beneath this statue in Prospect Terrace. Notice the statue and the dramatic elevated view of Downtown Providence spreading below.