2024-07-222024-07-222007-08-05https://hdl.handle.net/10929/122271The original Nassau Tavern at 52 Nassau Street was first built in 1756 by Judge Thomas Leonard, who spent the last years of his life in view of the college he had helped to bring to Princeton. When he passed away in 1759, Judge Leonard's elegant town residence became a hostelry, called College Inn by its new owner. The first proprietor was Christopher Beekman, whose natural talent as an innkeeper soon established the Inn as the center of the town's life. In 1775, the Committee of Safety met at College Inn, and a few weeks later, delegates were stopping overnight on their way to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Signers of the Declaration of Independence, passing through Princeton in 1776, rested at College Inn.Original file name Nassau Inn 3.jpg2364 x 1494Each photograph within this collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Therefore, these photos may only be used in a way that is permitted by copyright and related rights legislation. The following terms of use for State Library patrons shall apply. 1. Educational Institution/student use is permitted as long as such usage adheres to all copyright and related rights legislation. In these instances, these photographs may only be used for educational or historical purposes. 2. Non-Commercial use is permitted without permission from the rights holder, as long as such use adheres to all copyright and related right legislation. 3. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for commercial purposes without the direct permission of the rights-holder. 4. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for political purposes. 5. Users must always give appropriate credit to the photographer. The credit may not in any way suggest the right's holder endorses the user or their use of the photographs. 6. Photographs may be copied or redistributed in any medium or format as long as such use does not violate copyright and related rights legislation. 7. Users may remix, transform, and rebuild upon the original photographs as long as it does not violate copyright and related rights legislation.Nassau InnPrincetonPalmer SquareBorough of PrincetonMercer CountyThe Delaware RegionNew JerseyNJJerseyThe Garden StateThe Raritan Valley RegionU.S. Historic district Contributing property