Alexander Johnston Hall
Alexander Johnston Hall is a building on the campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey located on the corner of Somerset Street and College Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Designed by local architect and builder Nicholas Wyckoff in 1830, Alexander Johnston Hall served as the home of the Rutgers College Grammar School, later known as the Rutgers Preparatory School.[1] In 1870, the Rutgers College trustees hired architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847–1918) to design a two-story addition for the building.[1] It was the first of three commissions Hardenbergh designed for the college—the other two being Geology Hall (1872) and Kirkpatrick Chapel. The Rutgers Preparatory School used this building from 1830 to 1963. The school, which was chartered with Rutgers as "Queen's College" in 1766, is now an independent school located on a 45-acre campus on Easton Avenue in Somerset, New Jersey. In 1964, the university renamed the building to honor alumnus Alexander Johnston, a historian and classics instructor at the school.
Alexander Johnston Hall was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1][2]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 National Register of Historic Places. Inventory Nomination Form for Rutgers Preparatory School (Alexander Johnston Hall) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1975). Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ↑ Alexander Johnston Hall (Rutgers Preparatory School) is listed as SHPO ID# 1882 (8 May 1975), and NRHP Reference #75001145 (18 July 1975). See: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) — Historic Preservation Office. New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places — Middlesex County (Last Updated 5 April 2013), 7. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
External links
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (official website)
- Rutgers Preparatory School (official website)