Princeton Universtiy: The Campus GuideFollowing our Campus Guides for Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia, this guide to Princeton presents an architectural tour of one of America's finest campuses. Organized in a series of walking tours and beautifully photographed with 100 color photographs, this guide reveals the stories behind over 80 historic and contemporary campus buildings, gardens, and works of sculpture, as well as a sampling of architecturally significant landmarks in the surrounding town. Three-dimensional watercolor maps locate the featured buildings. Founded in 1746, Princeton University epitomizes ideals about campus planning and building design. Major works by architects McKim Mead & White, William A. Potter, R. H. Robertson, John McComb Jr., Hugh Stubbins, Machado Silvetti, I. M. Pei, Marcel Breuer, and Venturi Scott Brown, as well as sculpture of such notables as Daniel Chester French, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith, are presented. |
Contents
First Church Burying Ground Old Yard | 24 |
Church Street to Lower Brattle Street | 56 |
Winthrop Park and the Gold Coast | 82 |
The Environs of St Pauls | 106 |
Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Harvard | 133 |
The New Yard and Memorial Hall | 148 |
Dana Hill to the Delta | 184 |
Divinity School and Shady Hill | 212 |
Radcliffe Institute Quad Houses Upper Brattle | 248 |
Schools of Medicine Public Health and Dental | 272 |
Kennedy School of Government Harvard Stadium | 288 |
The Coolidge Residential Colleges 306 | 325 |
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Princeton University: University Regulations, September 1, 1921 (Classic ... UNKNOWN. AUTHOR No preview available - 2015 |
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