Nassau Street is the main downtown thoroughfare of Princeton, New Jersey famous for its history, high-end stores, restaurants, and college town street life. It is the southernmost portion of Route 27 and has its western end at the intersection with Stockton and Bayard Streets, which form U.S. Route 206. The FitzRandolph Gate of Princeton University opens onto Nassau Street in front of Nassau Hall, at the intersection with Witherspoon Street, which serves as the iconic center of the town of Princeton. Nassau Street is lined with historic landmarks, including monuments, churches, mansions, university buildings, and offices. The street in its entirety is contained with the King's Highway Historic District (New Jersey), the western portion is part of the Princeton Historic District, and the stretch around the intersection with Harrison Street is part of the Jugtown Historic District. The eastern end of Nassau Street is at the intersection with Snowden Lane / Riverside Drive, where the old Princeton Borough ended. The street continues to the east as the Princeton-Kingston Road, leading to the Kingston Mill, Lake Carnegie, Delaware and Raritan Canal, and historic town of Kingston.
63 Nassau Street is a landmark building located between Fulton and John Streets in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in the Italianate style c.1844, and had its cast-iron facade, attributed to James Bogardus, added in 1857-59, making it one of the first cast-iron buildings in the city. The attribution to Bogardus, a pioneer in the architectural use of cast iron, comes because of medallions of Benjamin Franklin identical to those on four other Bogardus projects, all now demolished. George Washington was also once represented with medallions.
The building is an extremely rare extant example of the work of Bogardus, one of only five known Bogardus buildings in the United States. The building was designated a New York City landmark on May 15, 2007.
Structural detail
The 5-story, 3-bay Italianate style cast-iron front facade was originally composed of superimposed arcades, with a 2-story arcade capped by an intermediate modillioned foliate cornice, surmounted by a 3-story arcade. The arcades are formed by elongated fluted Corinthiancolumns (most of the capitals’ leaves are now missing); rope moldings, which also surround the spandrel panels; molded arches with faceted keystones and molded paneled reveals; and foliate spandrels. The ground floor was first altered in 1919.
Nassau Street was originally called Kip Street — after an early Dutch settler family — but was subsequently named for the royal family of the Netherlands, the House of Orange-Nassau; in particular, it was named some time before 1696 in honor to William of Nassau, the Dutch prince who became King William III of England. Nassau Street once housed many of the city's newspapers. Late in the 20th century Nassau Street was closed to motor traffic in order to promote shopping.
Nassau Street borders on the Fulton-Nassau Historic District, which is bounded by Broadway and Park Row, Nassau, Dutch and William Sts, Ann and Spruce Sts. and Liberty St. The first building of The New York Times — then the New-York Daily Times — was located at 113 Nassau Street. In 1854, the paper moved to 138 Nassau Street, and in 1858 it moved to Park Row, making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use.
Princeton Splits the Weekend. The Tigers (4-2) picked up some very loud NassauStreet bragging rights on Friday with an impressive 17-6 win over Princeton Day (4-2) ... Princeton wants to show it back and ready to challenge in the Colonial Division.
... week as they played Robbinsville (1-0) on Monday, have old-time prep rival Pennington (0-1) on Tuesday and will travel crosstown to face Princeton (2-0) for some NassauStreet bragging rights.
Buildings across the street have been redeveloped ...Without a hotel in downtown Trenton, all visitors will find lodging in Princeton, Lawrence ... Anyway, Princeton eateries along Nassau and Witherspoon streets should expect waiting lines.
“We’ve had our eyes on Princeton since the very beginning ... Located on NassauStreet, Graduate Princeton sits directly opposite the historic university campus and will double the number of available accommodations in the town.
PRINCETON – A solo exhibition featuring the works of Léni Paquet-Morante, an accomplished painter and sculptor with the Johnson Atelier ... at the David ScottGallery at 253 NassauStreet in Princeton.
