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Museum of Historic Art

Museum of Historic Art

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Mudd Archives, Pach Bros Photo

With the establishment of a School of Architecture in 1917 under Professor Howard Crosby Butler Class Of 1892 the Museum of Historic Art was simply too small to meet the needs of the Department of Art and Archaeology and the School of Architecture. Princeton's Supervising Architect, Ralph Adams Cram, was called in to build an extensive addition that really must be thought of as a building in its own right.