Nassau Inn

Active in Palmer Square

Address

52 Nassau Street

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40.34930834873, -74.661506914353

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During Princeton’s transition period, that is, during Amory’s last two years there, while he saw it change and broaden and live up to its Gothic beauty by better means than night parades, certain individuals arrived who stirred it to its plethoric depths. Some of them had been freshmen, and wild freshmen, with Amory; some were in the class below; and it was in the beginning of his last year and around small tables at the Nassau Inn that they began questioning aloud the institutions that Amory and countless others before him had questioned so long in secret.

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Opened in 1769, the Nassau Inn quickly established itself as a landmark hotel in downtown Princeton: it endured British occupation during the Revolutionary War and, in 1783, hosted members of the Continental Congress. In 1937, the original building was demolished for the development of Palmer Square, and the hotel reopened in 1938 at its current location.

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