Queens Campus, Rutgers University | |
 Class of 1902 Memorial Gateway to the Queens Campus, Rutgers University | |
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| Location | Bounded by College Avenue and George, Hamilton, and Somerset Streets New Brunswick, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°29′54″N 74°26′46″W / 40.49833°N 74.44611°W |
| Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | 1825 |
| Architect | John McComb, Jr. Henry J. Hardenbergh |
| Architectural style | Renaissance, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001113[1] |
| NJRHP No. | 1881[2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | July 2, 1973 |
| Designated NJRHP | January 29, 1973 |
The Queens Campus or Old Queens Campus[a] is a historic section of the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the United States.
The Queens Campus spans one city block on a hilltop overlooking the Raritan River. In 1807, the heirs of John Parker of Perth Amboy led by James Parker, Jr., a prominent local merchant and political figure, donated a six-acre apple orchard to the trustees of Queen's College and its grammar school. The college—which was renamed Rutgers College in 1825—built its first building, Old Queens, from 1809 to 1823. Old Queens was used for instruction, student chapel services, and housed members of the college's faculty. In the institution's early years, the building housed the college, its grammar school (until 1830), and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (until 1856).
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Queens Campus contained seven buildings designed by architects John McComb, Jr., Nicholas Wyckoff, Williard Smith, Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, and Van Campen Taylor. These buildings were erected to accommodate the small but expanding liberal arts college's classroom instruction, student activities, faculty offices, chapel, library, and housing into the middle of the twentieth century. Six buildings remain and are used to accommodate the university's core administrative offices, a geological museum, the college chapel, and a former astronomical observatory that is no longer used. The Queens Campus was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The oldest building, Old Queens, was designated as a national landmark in 1976.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Middlesex County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. May 21, 2018. p. 7.
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