Kennedy Plaza, formerly Exchange Place, Exchange Terrace, or City Hall Park, is a rectangular public square that occupies a central portion of Downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Since the mid 19th cen
An engraving depicting Exchange Place in 1886
Exchange Place, ca. 1890. City Hall at center; to its right is the First Union Station, where Burnside park currently exists.
Exchange Place c. 1910, facing the then-new Federal Building
Burnside Park is a small park situated in Downtown Providence, Rhode Island, adjacent to Kennedy Plaza. The park is named for Ambrose Burnside, a general in the American Civil War from Rhode Island. A
Burnside park on a snowy day
Bajnotti Fountain (1902), Enid Yandell
View of the Providence skyline from the park.
Burnside Statue (1887), Launt Thompson