Old Palmer Physics Lab meets a modern 2001 addition at your Frist Campus Center, Princeton's social hub. Here the old and the new meet: the center combines the former Palmer Physics Lab with a modern addition completed in 2001, endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family has made in the private hospital business. The addition, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the firm of Robert Venturi, a Princeton alumnus, and Denise Scott Brown, fills the courtyard of the earlier C-shaped Collegiate Gothic Palmer Hall and stretches across its open side to create a new east facade.
In 2008 and 2009, James Bradberry Architects performed extensive renovations on the 100 level, shaping the rooms you can pass through today. Step inside and imagine Room 302, restored to the condition it had when Albert Einstein lectured there. The building has also been used for external shots of the fictitious Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in the television series House, so you may recognize it from the screen.
Listen to the hum of campus activity, then notice the Collegiate Gothic masonry meeting the modern insertion beside it.