1873: Chancellor Green Library
East Front Campus, looking west, with Chancellor Green Library in background and Dickinson Hall at left (photo after 1876)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library
View from northeast immediately before completion in 1873
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library
View from north (photo 1870's)
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Detail of west entrance portal
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Source: Robert J. Clark original slide
Detail of east entrance portal
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Source: Robert J. Clark original slide
Interior, rotunda viewed from balcony (photo circa 1873)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library
nterior, rotonda at ground level (photo after 1897)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library
Interior, rotunda, view into cupola (photo 1970's)
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Interior, rotunda at ground level (photo circa 1879)
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Source: The Princeton Book (1879), offprint (PU Archives)
Interior, rotunda at ground level (photo circa 1874)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Grounds & Buildings, Box 19
Interior, rotunda viewed from balcony (photo circa 1883)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Grounds & Buildings, Box 19
View from northwest (photo circa 1900)
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Source: Princeton University Archives, Mudd Library, Grounds & Buildings, LP2)
Chancellor Green Student Center was originally the college library building, which was given in 1873 by John C. Green and named for his brother, Henry Woodhull Green 1820, Chancellor of New Jersey in the 1860s. Its architecture was inspired by the Ruskinian version of Venetian Gothic then popular in England.
After Pyne Library was built adjacent to Chancellor Green in 1897, they both served as the University library until the completion of Firestone in 1947. Chancellor Green's conversion into a student center seven years later was made possible largely through a twentieth reunion gift of the Class of 1934.
[Curator's note: The Rotunda become The Chancellor Green Pub in 1973 when NJ changed the legal age for alcohol consumption from 21 to 18. The Pub was closed in 1984 when NJ raised the legal drinking age back to 21.]
Chancellor Green Library in Evolution of the Campus
More information on Chancellor Green Library
Source: Leitch p. XXX ff