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helps to maintain high occupancy rates at the inn. The hotel allows pets, with a cleaning fee. It is a popular wedding venue, with an outdoor patio available for ceremonies. The restaurant, the Yankee Doodle Tap Room, is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the bar and lounge area has a
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Christopher and Grace Beekman retired as proprietors of the Inn around the turn of the 19th century. John Gifford took over management of the hotel, renaming it the Nassau Inn, sometimes Nassau Hotel, and hanging a sign depicting
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The inn's first building, constructed in 1756 using brick imported from Holland, was built as the home of Judge Thomas Leonard, an eminent local citizen who had helped woo The College of New Jersey (now
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staying in the Inn. Hageman's 1879 history of Princeton relates that Mayor Morford of Princeton insisted that the assembly had met in the Inn, with its ballroom serving as the Court of Chancery.
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The hotel has 188 guest rooms, and 14 banquet rooms, with over 10,000 square feet (930 m) in meeting space. Approximately 120,000 guests check in each year. Its close proximity to
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In the 1930s Edgar Palmer, a major donor to Princeton University and leading figure in the town, desired to bring an urban redevelopment to Princeton similar in concept, if not scale, to
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development and a new, larger, inn opened at 10 Palmer Square in 1938. The hotel's restaurant, the Yankee Doodle Tap Room, has a large mural by
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The Nassau Inn (original location) in 1937, showing the west wing, built 1756, and part of the east wing, Mansion house, built 1846 by
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on the east side of the original structure, which then became known as the west wing. In the 1880s the two buildings were combined.
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at the entrance. In 1846, a new building, known as Mansion House, was built by noted local builder/architect
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The Inn underwent a 120-bed expansion in 1985, such that the hotel spans Palmer Square East.
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fireplace. Parking is available in the nearby Hulfish or Chambers Street garages.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
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Historic district contributing properties in Mercer County, New Jersey
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Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science
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in New York. This led to the 1936–1939 creation of
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History of Princeton and Its Institutions, Volume 1
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The Daily Princetonian. 2008-02-04 686:"Nassau Inn preparing for expansion" 588:Hageman, John Frelinghuysen (1879). 546:Hageman, John Frelinghuysen (1879). 533:National Register of Historic Places 296:is a full-service hotel in downtown 1425:Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 304:and played host to members of the 193: 14: 855: 192: 185: 33: 24: 1030:Princeton University Art Museum 648:Gilbert, Ellen (July 2, 2008). 78: 1430:Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1375:Princeton addressed landmarks 1260:Princeton Community Television 988:Princeton Theological Seminary 668:"Nassau Inn Addition Tops-Out" 404:met in Nassau Hall, with many 1: 529:"Princeton Historic District" 1229:Princeton Symphony Orchestra 1015:Institute for Advanced Study 635:Princeton Historical Society 617:Princeton Historical Society 1395:Educational Testing Service 1301:Donald Grant Herring Estate 1071:Princeton University Chapel 822:Princeton Historic District 269:Princeton Historic District 85:; 87 years ago 67:; 11 years ago 1519: 1341:Princeton Railroad Station 1107:Herrontown Woods Arboretum 1102:Delaware and Raritan Canal 1066:Princeton United Methodist 853: 455:Nassau Presbyterian Church 361:, at the midpoint between 1464: 1451:Washington Road Elm Allée 1331:Princeton Battle Monument 1193:Princeton Shopping Center 1183:Princeton Record Exchange 1081:Stony Brook Meeting House 993:Westminster Choir College 971:Colleges and universities 287: 180: 176: 163: 156: 152: 44: 32: 23: 1437:(in Plainsboro; defunct) 1384:American Boychoir School 1377:outside the municipality 1025:Princeton Public Library 998:Evelyn College for Women 911:Princeton Charter School 893:Princeton Public Schools 535:. 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U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
Nassau Inn is located in Mercer County, New Jersey
Princeton, NJ
40°21′01.8″N 74°39′40.2″W / 40.350500°N 74.661167°W / 40.350500; -74.661167
Princeton Historic District
ID75001143
Princeton, New Jersey
American Revolution
Continental Congress
Nassau Hall
Palmer Square
Norman Rockwell
Yankee Doodle
Princeton University

Charles Steadman
Princeton University
King's Highway
New York City
Philadelphia
colonial America
Paul Revere
Robert Morris
Thomas Paine
American Revolution
George Washington's
Battle of Princeton

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