Princeton Tower Club, Selective eating club on Prospect Avenue, Princeton, United States
The Princeton Tower Club is a private eating club on Prospect Avenue in Princeton, New Jersey, housed in a three-story brick building with a tower that gives the club its name. The building offers dining rooms, common rooms, and study areas reserved for members of the club.
The club was founded in 1902 by five students and started out under the name Monastery Club with 26 members. Over the following decades it grew into one of the established eating clubs along Prospect Avenue.
The Tower Club is known for drawing students interested in politics and the arts, who gather around shared meals and open conversation. The mix of backgrounds and interests at the table gives the club a reputation for lively, wide-ranging discussion among upperclassmen.
The club is private and not open to the general public, so anyone hoping to visit should arrange access in advance through a member. It sits on Prospect Avenue, a short walk from the main university campus, alongside several other eating clubs that line the same street.
During World War II the club continued to operate with only 15 members, all of them ROTC officers, which was the lowest count in its history. The fact that it kept running at all during those years says a lot about how deeply the club was rooted in campus life.
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