Frist Campus Center
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Former names | Palmer Physical Laboratory |
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Opening | September, 2000 |
Owner | Princeton University |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Robert Venturi |
Palmer Physical Laboratory | |
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Location | Frist Campus Center, Princeton, New Jersey |
Coordinates | 40°20′48.8″N 74°39′19.0″W / 40.346889°N 74.655278°W |
Built | 1909[1] |
Architect | Henry Janeway Hardenbergh |
Architectural style | Collegiate Gothic |
Part of | Princeton Historic District (ID75001143[2]) |
Designated CP | 27 June 1975 |
Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family has made in the private hospital business.[citation needed]
Designed by Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the firm of acclaimed architects Robert Venturi (a Princeton alumnus) and Denise Scott Brown, the building consists of a modern expansion to the existing Collegiate Gothic Palmer Hall. The new building volume fills in the courtyard of the previous C-shaped structure, and extends across its open side to create a new east facade. In 2008 and 2009 extensive renovations[3] were performed on the 100 level by James Bradberry Architects
Room 302 is a lecture hall restored to its condition at the time that Albert Einstein lectured there.
This building has also been used for external shots of the fictitious Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in the television series House.
References
- ^ Letich, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press.
- ^ "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ https://www.princeton.edu/frist/timeline.html
External links
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