Butler College Redevelopment Fact Sheet

Princeton - Princeton - • Construction began: June 2007 • Project will be occupied in fall of 2009 • Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York • Construction manager: Turner Construction, New York • Architecture style: Contemporary • Project size (building area): 113,000 square feet • Residence hall heights: two, three and four stories • Project configuration: two above-grade "C"-shaped wings, each of which encloses with an exterior court on three sides. A ground-level common area joins the two wings. • College dorms razed to make way for new dorms: Lourie-Love, 1922, 1940, 1941 and 1942 halls - all built in 1964 • Materials recycled: Demolition produced approximately 9,000 tons of concrete, metal, wire and cable; all but 400 tons was recycled. • Other Butler College buildings (buildings left standing): 1915 Hall (dorm) and Wu Hall (dining hall and social center) • Five new dorms constructed: -   - Wilf Hall, named for Jane and Mark Wilf, a 1984 alumnus -   - 1967 Hall, named for members of Princeton's class of 1967 -   - three others, yet to be named • Bloomberg Hall, which has been an upper-class dorm, also will become part of Butler College in fall 2009 • Residents: -   - 283 undergraduates: a mixture of Butler College, upper-class and independent residents -   - four graduate students -   - one faculty member • Third four-year college: -   - Butler will join Whitman and Mathey as a four-year residential college, completing the transition to the new residential college system launched in fall 2007; it will be paired with Wilson, a two-year college.