Nassau Hall
Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.
Close up of Nassau Hall, from the Portrait of George Washington Before Nassau Hall by Charles Peale Polk (American, 1767 - 1822).
Princeton University. Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.
Close up of Nassau Hall, from the Portrait of George Washington Before Nassau Hall by Charles Peale Polk (American, 1767 - 1822).
In the distance stood an imposing stone ediface - Nassau Hall, reputedly the largest public building in Britain's North American Colonies and home of the fledgling College of New Jersey. Fifty miles behind lay Philadelphia, the largest and most cultured of the cities in colonial America; fifty miles ahead, the rapidly growing port city of New York.