Princeton of the daytime filtered slowly into his consciousness—West and Reunion, redolent of the sixties, Seventy-nine Hall, brick-red and arrogant, Upper and Lower Pyne, aristocratic Elizabethan ladies not quite content to live among shopkeepers, and, topping all, climbing with clear blue aspiration, the great dreaming spires of Holder and Cleveland towers.
This side of Paradise
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Built in 1909 as a large residential quadrangle on Nassau Street, Holder Hall was designed by Day & Klauder in the Collegiate Gothic style. It combines three wings of bedrooms with a fourth of vaulted cloisters and is dominated by the Holder Tower, recognizable by its pinnacles topped with four bronze tigers that also serve as weathervanes.
