Butler Hospital

Butler Hospital
Care New England
Geography
Location	Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Coordinates	41°50′46.68″N71°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
Construction started	1844
Links
Website	www.butler.org
Lists	Hospitals in Rhode Island
Butler Hospital
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Entrance
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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

Isaac Ray, M.D., first superintendent of the hospital

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

Mary Marran is the President and Chief Operating Officer. ^[6]

See also

• List of hospitals in Rhode Island
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

References

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