The Van Wickle Gates form the ornamental entrance to Brown University's main campus in Providence, Rhode Island.

At the dedication ceremony, Chancellor William Goddard stated,[5] We have passed through the imposing gates with which his refined taste has separated the turmoil of strenuous struggle from the 'still air of delightful studies.'

Generations of men on their annual pilgrimage to this Mecca of thought, will cross the threshold of these iron gates and enter with gladness upon the fields whose pathetic beauty can never lose its charm.

Many successive classes will pass through these portals, singing youth's joyous songs and eager to shiver their lances in the great and unending contests for liberty and right.Like many structures on Brown's campus, the gates are a contributing property to the College Hill Historic District.

[12][13] Fritz Pollard first saw the Van Wickle Gates on a 1912 visit to Brown; the sight of them purportedly helped convince the young athlete to attend the university.