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Metadata

Object ID

A_9_b_003

Title

[Bainbridge House, c. 1900-1915]

Collection

Photo Archives

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

c.1900-1915

Year Range from

1900

Year Range to

1915

Description

Bainbridge House, exterior. This photo dates to c. 1900, when the building served as a boarding house for Princeton University students. It is painted a dark Victorian color and a "stick style" porch has been added to the front.

Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street, currently houses the Historical Society of Princeton. In the past it has been used as a private residence, accommodations for the Continental Congress in 1783, a doctor's office, a boarding house, and a public library.

Job Stockton, grandson of Richard Stockton (an early English settler in the area) and cousin of Richard Stockton (signer of the Declaration of Independence), built Bainbridge House in 1766. Bainbridge House is named after William Bainbridge, born in the house on May 7, 1774, son of Absalom Bainbridge, to whom the house was leased earlier that year. William Bainbridge was a future Commodore in the U.S. Navy and commanded the U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). He emerged as a hero of the War of 1812.

Place

Princeton, NJ

Print size

5" x 7"

Subjects

Buildings
Houses
Libraries
Historical societies
Boarding houses
Fences
Trees
Porches
Streets

People

Stockton, Job, -1771
Stockton, Richard
Bainbridge, Absalom
Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833

Search Terms

Nassau Street
Bainbridge House
Stockton Family

Notes

In pencil on back:
Bainbridge House
A-9-b

[minimal info, so back was not scanned]

Provenance

Print of glass plate negative in HSP collection. Primarily from local photography studios Kopp and Silvester. A_9_b_002 and A_9_b_004 are prints of the same image; A_9_b_002 is printed in a larger scale. A_9_b_004 is mounted on an information card that gives the old catalogue numbers as 1128.