Research Guides: Researching Princeton Architecture: Home

Quick Links

Office of the University Architect
PU Historical Photographs: Grounds and Buildings, 1850s-1940s.
Princeton Lost: An online exhibition that seeks to explore the history of Princeton’s destroyed buildings and their role in the development of the campus community and beyond.
Grounds and Buildings category on the Mudd Library blog (see specific posts by Mudd staff)
Interested in works of ART instead? The PU Art Museum oversees campus sculpture. See this guide for more information.

Contacts for Further Help

Rebecca Friedman, Assistant Art Librarian, rfriedma@princeton.edu (Marquand Library)

Gabriella Karl-Johnson, Architecture Librarian, gjk@princeton.edu (Architecture Library)

Princeton Campus Architecture

The New Princeton Companion by Robert K. Durkee
Call Number: Copies avail. in Firestone and Mudd Libraries + online
ISBN: 9780691198743
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton The New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University's history and traditions, personalities and key events, and defining characteristics and idiosyncrasies.
Princeton History and Architecture by Marilyn Menago
ISBN: 9780764362842
Publication Date: 2022-02-15 (2nd ed.)
Experience the layers of history and diverse architecture of Princeton, New Jersey, in this narrated photographic tour of more than 200 locations where history was made and greatness launched.
Princeton University and Neighboring Institutions by Robert Spencer Barnett; Christopher L. Eisgruber (Foreword by); Shirley M. Tilghman (Contribution by); Ronald McCoy (Introduction by)
Call Number: LD4611 .B37 2015 (mult. copies)
2nd ed.
Princeton: America's Campus by W. Barksdale Maynard
Call Number: LD4608 .M18 2012
Princeton modern: highlights of campus architecture from the 1960s to the present
Call Number: LD4615 .C677 2010 (Architecture)
Princeton University (Architecture campus Guide) by Rhinehart, Raymond P. (photos. by Walter Smalling Jr.)
Call Number: LD4611 .R55 2000 (Architecture Ref, Firestone Stacks, Firestone Trustee Reading Room); LD4611 .R55 1999 (Marquand Ref.)
A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch
ISBN: 1400870011
Publication Date: 2015 reprint (1978)
In this unusual and unique volume, Alexander Leitch provides a warm, often witty, and always informative reference book on Princeton University. The collection of approximately 400 articles, alphabetically arranged and written by some seventy faculty members and alumni in addition to the author, covers all aspects of Princeton life in the past as well as in the present. Includes a historical survey of the University's acquisition of land and the development of its campus, together with articles on its principal buildings...
Alexander Hall, home of Richardson Auditorium : a chronicle of Alexander Hall’s significance in the development of the Princeton University Campus
Call Number: LD4615.R52 S44 2004 (Marquand & Music)
Princeton architecture: a pictorial history of town and campus (1967)
Call Number: (many copies available)
Engineering Quadrangle: Princeton University (1957)
Call Number: LD4615.E5V6 (Architecture)

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Other Holdings

The Architecture Library has a collection of drawings and plans of latter 20th-century buildings, including some Princeton buildings, specifically:
Washington Oaks at Princeton
Social Dining Facility (Butler/Wilcox Hall)
Administrative Building
Married Student Housing
Swimming Pool Facility
Astrophysical Sciences Building
School of Architecture and Urban Planning Lecture Room
School of Architecture
Prospect House Restoration
Jr. Faculty Apartments
Firestone Court
Butler Housing Area
Woolworth Music Center (2)

Princeton Alumni Weekly, or PAW, may have featured campus architecture in its pages. Contact Mudd Library if interested in their physical card index to older issues, or try Google Books.