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1892: Brown Hall

View from northwest (1890's photo)

View from northwest (1890's photo)

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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Gronds & Buildings, Box 5

Brown Hall (1892) was the gift of mathematics professor Albert B. Dod's sister, Mrs. David B. Brown, in memory of her husband. she was also the donor of Dod Hall. This dormitory was designed by John Lyman Faxon, who, like other architects of his era, was a votary of the Italian Renaissance style. He modeled Brown after a Florentine palace, but, as Professor Thomas J. Wertenbaker later observed, "the completed building, with its heavy lines . . . had little of the charm of Italian architecture."

Source: Leitch p. 66


View of McCosh's mid-campus: Art Museum, Brown Hall, Dod Hall (photo from album, circa 1905)

View of McCosh's mid-campus: Art Museum, Brown Hall, Dod Hall (photo from album, circa 1905)

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Source: "Gray Album", circa 1905 (Robert J. Clark), pl.14


Entrance arch (photo 1931)

Entrance arch (photo 1931)

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Gronds & Buildings, Box 5


View from northwest (photo from album, circa 1905)

View from northwest (photo from album, circa 1905)

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Source: "Gray Album", c.1905 (Robert J. Clark), pl.15


Dod Hall (left), Museum of Historic Art (right-center), Brown Hall (right), (after 1890)

Dod Hall (left), Museum of Historic Art (right-center), Brown Hall (right), (after 1890)

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Source: Unknown


View from east (photo before 1912)

View from east (photo before 1912)

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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Grounds & Buildings, LP1

Brown Hall in Evolution of the Campus

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