Upper Pyne

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Upper Pyne Dormitory, 76 Nassau Street

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40.349605604574, -74.660453170643

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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 1896, Upper and Lower Pyne were designed by Raleigh C. Gildersleeve, modeled after 16th-century English houses. They were conceived as a mixed-use building: shops at street level and, on the upper floors, student residence rooms.
In 1950, the rooms were converted into offices, and in 1963, Upper Pyne was demolished to make way for the Princeton Bank and Trust Company building.

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