The Van Wickle Gates are the ornamental entrance to Brown University's main campus, at the crest of College Hill. They were paid for by the bequest of Augustus Stout Van Wickle, Class of 1876, a bank president who died in 1898. He also paid for a set of gates at Princeton University.
Hoppin & Ely and Hoppin & Koen designed them in wrought iron with brick and stone piers. The Brown coat of arms crowns the gate, and the piers carry the seals of Rhode Island and Providence. The sides carry inscriptions by Cicero. They were dedicated on June 18, 1901.
The two small side gates stay open all year. The big center gates open only on special days: inward at the start of the school year and the start of spring semester, and outward for the Commencement procession.