Listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975, your Princeton Historic District spans 370 acres from Marquand Park to the Eating Clubs. This is the heart of Princeton life: the district stretches from Marquand Park in the west to the Eating Clubs in the east, and from the Princeton Cemetery in the north down to the Graduate College in the south. Within this patchwork you can feel the presence of the core parts of the Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University, and you’re only a stone’s throw from the business district centered on Nassau Street.
Look to the west and you’ll find grand historic mansions; turn toward Witherspoon and Jackson and you’ll see more humble dwellings that tell a different, equally important story. Notable houses of worship—Nassau Presbyterian Church, Trinity Episcopal, Nassau Christian Center, and the Princeton University Chapel—anchor the spiritual life of the district. This neighborhood holds seven of Princeton’s nine National Historic Landmarks and seven of New Jersey’s fifty-eight, the largest concentration of such sites in the state.
Princeton, and the world-renowned university to which it is home, has played a significant role in 300 years of American history, and that story runs from Marquand Park to the Eating Clubs and everything between.