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The Princeton Club is a pair of historic buildings located at 1221 and 1223
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in
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, Pennsylvania.


History


Buildings

The building at 1223 was designed by architect
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; the building at 1221 is believed to have been partly designed by architect Lindley Johnson. They were built in the 1890s. In 1910 the Princeton Club of Philadelphia moved into the buildings, making alterations in 1915 and 1919 to join the buildings together. They left the buildings sometime in the 1970s. In 2022, it was reported that the owner of the building was Tiger Building LP.
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,
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, held a 40 percent stake in the Tiger Building
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. The restaurant Deux Cheminées occupied the buildings from 1988 to 2007. Since 2011, the property has been occupied by the restaurant Vedge.


Princeton Club of Philadelphia

The Princeton Club of Philadelphia was founded in 1868, and was housed in five other buildings before moving to Locust Street. According to its 1912 Yearbook, the club served "to foster good fellowship among
Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...
men; and also to provide a suitable place for Alumni meetings, smokers, etc."Jeffery Cohen and George Thomas, NRHP Nomination Form - Princeton Club (Philadelphia) 1980


See also

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* NRHP photo {{Authority control Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Frank Furness buildings Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1891 Locust Street Washington Square West, Philadelphia Defunct university clubs in the United States