#campus map

Map of of Princeton drawn by Jacob Riegel, Jr., Class of 1912, ca. 1932. Though depicting buildings as three dimensional, they are scaled for the two-dimensional map and accurately placed. The cartoons represent inside jokes for Princetonians, including workmen being perplexed about where the front of the McCosh infirmary is, a stream of students headed to the train station for weekend travel, Alexander Hamilton facing off against a British musketeer, and numerous squirrels, among others.

Riegel was known for maps in this style. He also drew similar depictions of various other locations.

Throwback Thursday: A map of Princeton, New Jersey, 1852. The campus of what was then named the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) is shaded in blue. 

A map of the campus of the College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896) as it appeared in Scribner’s Monthly in March 1877. 

As I celebrate 30 years with Marquette University, I marked up a 1992 campus map to show changes. Green is for new buildings. Yellow means renovation. Red marks demolition.

A) Mashuda Hall was remodeled in 2002. Building 3 became a We Energies substation. Building 4 was razed. O’Donnell Hall was renovated in 2019.

B) The School of Dentistry opened in 2002.

C) Krueger Child Care Center opened in 2011.

D) The Commons res hall opened in 2018. Building 5, the Parent & Child Center, Boiler Plant, the Academic Support Facility were razed. Humphrey Hall was remodeled.

E) The Physician Assistant Building opened in 2019.

F) Formerly a hospital clinic, the 1700 Building is home to Occupational Therapy.

G) Campus Town West, part of Campus Circle, was completed in 1993.

H) Parking Structure 1 was finished in 1993.

I) McCabe Hall opened in 2009. Marquette owns the adjacent retail spaces.

J) Cramer Hall was renovated in 2005. Engineering Hall opened in 2011. Carmel and Monitor Halls were razed. Haggerty Engineering was remodeled.

K) Campus Town East was built in 1994 then expanded in 2004.

L) In 2003, Wisconsin Avenue gained campus markers and maple trees. O'Brien Hall is the new home for Business. McCormick Hall was razed in 2019.

M) AMU and Weasler Auditorium were remodeled.

N) Schroeder Complex was renovated in 2005. Clark Hall opened a nursing sim lab in 2012.

O) St. Joan of Arc Chapel was restored in 2022. Wehr Chemistry was renovated in 2006.

P) The O'Brien Jesuit Residence opened in 2015. The old Jesuit Residence was razed in 2016. Schroeder Hall's parking lot became Eckstein Common green space in 2018.

Q) The Biltmore and Brooks Hall were razed. Raynor Library and a renovated Memorial Library opened in 2003.

R) Cudahy Hall opened in 1994.

S) Parking Structure 2 was completed in 2004.

T) Schroeder Hall was remodeled in 1992. Abbottsford Hall was renovated in 2005. The Varsity Theatre finished its multi-year remodel in 2009.

U) Zilber Hall opened in 2009, replacing Parents Park and the 1212 Building.

V) Straz Hall gained an atrium in 1999. Helfaer Theatre received new seats in 2000. Coughlin Hall was renovated in 2015. Lalumiere Language Hall was remodeled in 2021.

W) Wells, 12th and 13th Streets switched to two way. North 11th Street was rerouted around Carpenter Tower, allowing a pedestrian mall in 2007.

X) The Al McGuire Center opened in 2004. The Athletic Human Performance Research Center was finished in 2019. Cobeen Hall was renovated in 2011.

Y) Gesu Church's renovation ran from 2012 to 2014. The Historic Core — Marquette Hall, Johnston Hall and Sensenbrenner Hall — was remodeled from 2012 to 2015. The Legal Research Center and O’Hara Hall were razed.

Z) Marquette acquired the 707 Building in 1999. The first-floor 707 Hub opened in 2017.