Mount Pleasant, Providence, Rhode Island

Mount Pleasant is a working-class residential neighborhood situated in the northwest of the city of Providence, Rhode Island.

Mount Pleasant was one of the last sections of the city to be developed, and as a result, most of the houses are of medium size on well landscaped lots and tree-lined streets.

That commercial strip remains a thriving part of the neighborhood today, including a full-service grocery store, a bank, service stations, pharmacies, bakeries, tailors, barber shops, meat markets, restaurants, and pubs.

Various large educational institutions such as Rhode Island College and Mount Pleasant High School are located in the neighborhood.

By the mid 20th century, second and third-generation Italian-Americans comprised a significant portion of the neighborhood's ethnic composition, many of them having moved to Mount Pleasant from Federal Hill.