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Campus Club circa 1908

Campus Club circa 1908

Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.

Source: Bric-a-Brac, 1908, p.136

Campus only stayed in the Incubator until 1901. In that year, Professor Andrew Fleming West moved out of his Colonial Revival house on the southeast corner of Washington Road and Prospect. This clapboard house, built in the 1880s, was designed to resemble the architecture of Colonial New England and featured a one- story entrance portico with Ionic columns, a small pediment with a fanlight, and a widow's walk on the roof.

Campus bought the West House in 1902, and in 1903 renovated and expanded the building to make it more suitable as a club. But Campus soon sought to have a more distinctive, purpose-built clubhouse.