The dining room, verandas, and conservatory all overlooked what would become Prospect Garden -- even then quite spectacular -- and then out across the rolling countryside. Not quite Tuscany in New Jersey, but close.

The Potter family sold the estate in 1878 to the brothers Alexander and Robert L. Stuart, who in turn presented the property to the College as a residence for the President. The building, already surrounded by College property, at last became an official part of the Princeton campus. Beginning with James McCosh , every Princeton President lived there until 1968.

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