Frist Campus Center

Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family has made in the private hospital business.^{[citation needed]}

Frist Campus Center
Former names	Palmer Physical Laboratory
General information
Opening	September, 2000
Owner	Princeton University
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Robert Venturi
Palmer Physical Laboratory
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Location	Frist Campus Center, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°20′48.8″N 74°39′19.0″W
Built	1909[1]
Architect	Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Architectural style	Collegiate Gothic
Part of	Princeton Historic District (ID75001143[2])
Designated CP	27 June 1975

Designed by Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the firm of acclaimed architects Robert Venturi (a Princeton alumnus) and Denise Scott Brown, the building consists of a modern expansion to the existing Collegiate Gothic Palmer Hall. The new building volume fills in the courtyard of the previous C-shaped structure, and extends across its open side to create a new east facade. In 2008 and 2009, extensive renovations^[3] were performed on the 100 level by James Bradberry Architects

Room 302 is a lecture hall restored to its condition at the time that Albert Einstein lectured there.

This building has also been used for external shots of the fictitious Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in the television series House.

References

1. Letich, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. Archived from the original on 2007-11-05. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
2. "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. "Frist Campus Center Timeline". www.princeton.edu.

External links

• Daily Princetonian
• Frist Campus Center