Lee D. Butler College is one of the seven residential colleges of
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
, founded in 1983. It houses about 500 freshmen and sophomores, 100 juniors and seniors, 10 Resident Graduate Students, a faculty member in residence, as well as a small number of upperclass
Residential College Advisors. Butler is a four-year college, paired with the former
First College
First College (known as Woodrow Wilson College from 1966 to 2020), the first of Princeton University's six residential colleges, was developed in the late 1950s when a group of students formed the Woodrow Wilson Lodge as an alternative to the e ...
. This means juniors and seniors are permitted to live in Butler, with priority for housing given to undergraduates who spent their first two years in either Butler or First.
It was opened in 1983 as Lee D. Butler College, the fourth college to be founded, and named after benefactor Lee D. Butler (class of 1922).
As of the fall of 2009, Butler's main quad consists of newly constructed dormitories. These new constructed dormitories were designed by
and structurally engineered by Leslie E. Robertson Associates. These dorms replaced a set of older dormitories, formerly known collectively as the "New New Quad", built in the 1960s and demolished in 2007. The dormitories now comprising Butler are 1915 Hall, 1967 Hall, 1976 Hall, Bloomberg Hall, Bogle Hall, Wilf Hall, and Yoseloff Hall. 1915 Hall is an older building, while Bloomberg Hall opened in 2004 and the other dormitories opened in 2009. As part of the construction of Hobson College, 1915 Hall is scheduled to be demolished in the summer of 2022.
The dining hall of the college was
Gordon Wu
Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung,[Gordon WU Ying-Sheung biography](_blank)
- website o ...
Hall, which was renovated during the summer of 2009 along with the adjacent First College dining hall, Wilcox Hall. As a result of this renovation, Wu and Wilcox shared a servery and kitchen, while separate dining areas. This arrangement is the same as that used by the
Rockefeller College
John D. Rockefeller 3rd College, or "Rocky", is one of six residential colleges at Princeton University, United States. It was founded in 1982, making it the third residential college to be established at Princeton. It is named for John D. Roc ...
and
Mathey College
Mathey College is one of six residential colleges at Princeton University. Located in the Northwest corner of the Princeton Campus, its dormitories and other buildings are predominantly in the Collegiate Gothic style. Since the fall of 2007, Mat ...
dining halls, which were renovated in 2007. In 2022, with the demolition of First College, Wilcox Hall closed, as did Wu Hall in 2023. Butler College's official dining hall is now
Whitman College
Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacifi ...
's, though students often tend to also eat at the shared
New College West
New College West is the sixth residential college at Princeton University. The construction of New College West will help increase the undergraduate student body population by 10 percent, or 500 students. It aims to be LEED Gold
Leaders ...
-
Yeh College
Yeh College (provisionally known as New College East until 2022, and Residential College 7 until 2021) is the future seventh residential college at Princeton University. It is scheduled to be opened before September of 2022. The construction of ...
Choi Dining Hall, or the dining hall at the campus Center for Jewish Life.
References
External links
Princeton University: Butler College
{{Authority control
Colleges of Princeton University
1983 establishments in New Jersey