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Dillon Gym

Dillon Gym

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Grounds & Buildings, MP39

The great upheavals of the middle of the 20th century -- the great Depression in the 1930s, followed by the outbreak of World War II -- stopped in its tracks Princeton's ambitious campus expansion program. In the decade before the Depression, Princeton had averaged two new buildings per year. From 1933 until 1960, by contrast, the university added only four major structures to the core campus: Dillon Gym,...