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Aug 19, 2014 · Featured Video: The Faculty Room at Nassau Hall. From its origins as the “Prayer Hall” through its years as a museum to its modern incarnation as an institutional gathering place, the Faculty Room at Nassau Hall has a storied history. It has served as a library and museum and is the site of some of Princeton’s most significant historical ...
Nassau Hall first opened its doors on November 28, 1756. The College of New Jersey (Princeton) at that time consisted of its president, Aaron Burr, 70 students, and three tutors. Robert Smith, the carpenter-architect who would later construct Carpenter’s Hall … Continue reading →
Jan 17, 2019 · Nassau Hall roof replacement, cupola restoration will begin this month. The Nassau Hall roof and cupola restoration is expected to occur from June 2018 through March 2019. Scaffolding will surround Nassau Hall during the work, though the building will remain open.
This Place in Time: Nassau Hall (PP287.1–2) Princeton University Art Museum – Dan Linke - Nassau Hall.mp3. Expert Voice: Dan Linke (University Archivist) At the time of its construction in 1756, Nassau Hall, 176 feet long and fifty-four feet wide, was the largest academic building in the American colonies. During the course of its over 250 ...
At the time of its construction in 1756, Nassau Hall, 176 feet long and fifty-four feet wide, was the largest academic building in the American colonies. During the course of its over 250-year existence, “Old Nassau” has housed every college function: classrooms, student rooms, administrators’ offices, library, chapel, labs, museum ...
Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J. June 30, 1783 — Nov. 4, 1783. Following Robert Livingston’s resignation as Secretary for Foreign Affairs in June 1783, the President of Congress acted as Secretary for Foreign Affairs ad interim until March 1784. 1 During this time, the papers of the Department of Foreign Affairs remained locked, sealed, and inaccessible, and foreign relations were managed ...
By moving the administration's nerve center to Nassau Hall, the university (so renamed in 1896) ensured that, from time to time, Nassau Hall would be a staging ground for protests, by activist students (most notably over the war in Vietnam in the 1960s and over Princeton's investments in South Africa fifteen years later) and, more decorously ...
