When Mary Kimball Hail died in 1948, she left her home at 88 Meeting Street in Providence -- now called the Mary K. Hail Music Mansion -- to the community for free, public concerts. The Music Mansion's namesake, Mary K. Hail, was, according to her June 25, 1948 Providence Journal obituary, a “prominent patroness of music in Rhode Island for many years…For nearly 20 years, Mrs. Hail's name has been linked with the Music Mansion, her home at Meeting and Congdon Streets, where one large wing was designed as a music hall for 200 people.” The Music Mansion, designed by architect Albert Harkness, has been described as “a modernized version of an English manor house of the 17th or 18th century.”