The ‘New New Quad’ — a last look

In June, the University was scheduled to raze portions of Butler College, including Lourie-Love Hall, left, 1941 Hall, right, and 1922 Hall, center, as well as 1940 Hall and 1942 Hall, not pictured. The five buildings cost $2.9 million to build, according to a news release from 1964, the year the quadrangle was completed.

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Rooms in the Butler dorms, like this single in 1942 Hall, included exposed-brick walls and distinctive waffle ceilings. A PAW story in October 1964 said that the single rooms were built "in accordance with the new preference for 'privatism.'"

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Detail of a waffle ceiling in 1942 Hall.

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Architect Hugh Stubbins, who also designed Jadwin Hall and Mudd Library, wrote that his Butler dorms were meant "to capture the traditional scale [of collegiate gothic architecture] in a modern idiom." For example, he used decorative metal parapets, like the ones lining the roof of Lourie-Love Hall, to evoke Gothic crenellations. Students dubbed them "bicycle racks."

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Some of the Butler buildings were given as memorials to class members, including those who died in World War II. The University plans to commemorate the gifts of the classes and of the Lourie and Love families in the new Butler complex and at the University Chapel.

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Robert Goheen '40 *48 is a member of the donor class for 1940 Hall, shown here at night, and was Princeton's president when the dorm was dedicated at the class’s 25th reunion in June 1965. William Meredith Jr. '40 wrote a quatrain for fallen classmates who died in World War II that was inscribed on a plaque at the building’s entrance: Living and dying they showed us a brave way./ Friends who remember them built this hall./ You who pass here and learn new selves today,/ Finding that study good, befriend us all.