Quadrangle Club

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Quadrangle Club

Quadrangle Club, often abbreviated to "Quad" is one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Located at 33 Prospect Avenue, the club is "sign-in," which means that it permits any students to join, as opposed to other bicker (selective) clubs at Princeton.

The club was formed in 1896 in a house built on the south side of Prospect Avenue. In its early years, it changed its location several times. In 1901, it moved to the north side of "the Street," and in 1903 it moved back to the south side, where the Princeton Tower Club now stands. In 1910 it moved to a house built in 1887 for James McCosh, the eleventh president of Princeton University. In 1915, Quadrangle Club sold the McCosh house and built its own house, designed by Henry Milliken, Princeton Class of 1905 in a classic brick Georgian Revival structure. The club has existed in this building since 1916.

Quadrangle Club became coeducational in 1970, one year after Princeton University itself began admitting women. The last eating clubs to include women did so in 1991.

In recent years, Quadrangle Club has hosted many of the biggest concerts on Princeton's campus. In 1993, Quad hosted the Barenaked Ladies. In May 2003 Lifehouse performed, in 2004 Quad played host to Maroon 5^[1] ^[2], in the spring of 2005 a concert featuring both Phantom Planet and The Gin Blossoms^[3] was held, and in the fall of 2005 Jurassic 5^[4] ^[5] performed. In 2006, Quad hosted pop superstar Rihanna for Fall Lawnparties^[6] ^[7], with The Pink Spiders opening, and in spring 2007 ska bands Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish performed^[8]. In spring 2008, Howie Day and New Found Glory performed at the club. Attendance figures for Maroon 5 and subsequent concerts was over 2,700, which represents over half of Princeton's entire undergraduate population of 3,900. The band Welbilt has also played at the club several times over the past few years.

In recent years, Quad's closest rival among the eating clubs has been the Colonial Club.

F. Scott Fitzgerald mentioned Quadrangle Club in his quintessential Princeton novel, This Side of Paradise, describing it as "Literary Quadrangle." Fitzgerald later commented that he might have felt more comfortable in "Literary Quadrangle" with contemporaries such as John Peale Bishop, an American poet.^[9] ^[10]