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WHITMAN COLLEGE IMAGE GALLERY
> Portrait of the architect, Demetri Porphyrios [archportrait.jpg]
Credit: Porphyrios Associates
> Whitman College map [whitman_college_map.pdf]
Credit: Princeton University
> Fieldstone construction diagram [fieldstone_diagram_Porphyrios.pdf]
Credit: Porphyrios Associates
> Limestone construction diagram [limestone_diagram_Porphyrios.pdf]
Credit: Porphyrios Associates
> Aerial of Whitman digital model [whitman_site_model.jpg]
Credit: Porphyrios Associates
> Whitman landscape rendering [whitman_rendering_Porphyrios.jpg]
Credit: Porphyrios Associates
> Whitman aerial photo [whitman_aerial_photo.jpg]
This aerial photo of Whitman College shows a view looking south toward
Community
Hall (left) and Fisher Hall (right).
Credit: Princeton University
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Whitman College, Princeton University's sixth residential college, was designed
by Demetri Porphyrios in the Collegiate Gothic style, featuring stone wall
masonry, slate roofs, and copper and wood detailing.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Wright Cloister is a series of arches forming an arcade along the walkway on
North Hall.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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A walkway along North Hall (left) leads to Murley-Pivirotto Family Tower.
Hargadon Hall is the limestone-covered building in the foreground at right.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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The photo shows North Hall (left) and Murley-Pivirotto Family Tower (right); the
turret is actually an air shaft.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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The college's 405 bedrooms have dark stained floors and custom-made,
triple-glazed mahogany casement windows.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Junior Stephen Sims is one of the first residents of Whitman College. He works
here at his desk in 1981 Hall.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Community Hall is one of two buildings in the college whose limestone walls are
a visual punctuation set apart from the fieldstone of the dormitories.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Community Hall bears the carved sign for the sixth residential college, which is
named for the family of Meg Whitman, the president and chief executive officer
of eBay and a member of Princeton's class of 1977.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Community Hall, which houses the college's dining facilities, has soaring,
35-foot ceilings emphasized by 8-foot oak panels.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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The servery in Community Hall is designed around a cook-to-order format. The
dining hall will be headed by a dedicated chef-manager, who will work with the
staff to prepare and serve distinctive meals.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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The entrance to Community Hall is through a row of finished oak doors beneath a
raised belvedere into a gallery. The doors are topped with the Whitman College
shield that is carved into the limestone.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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Fisher Hall (right) and North Hall (left) are viewed from the terraced North
Court.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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The reading desks in the library also were designed by college architect Demetri
Porphyrios.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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More than 175,000 pieces of fieldstone from quarries in Alcove, N.Y., and
Susquehanna, Pa., were used in the construction of Whitman College. At the peak
of the project, some 80 stone masons were supported by 70 additional laborers
while they worked with more than 6,000 tons of stone.
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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An estimated 38,000 pieces of Indiana limestone were incorporated into the
design. Some was used as trim around arches and windows, while some was used
as
the exterior finish on two buildings (Community Hall and Hargadon Hall).
Credit: Denise Applewhite
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This detail of the stone work shows a carving in limestone of two tigers on North
Hall.
Credit: Denise Applewhite