Dickinson Hall

Dickinson Hall, home of the Departments of Economics and of History, is named for the first president of the College, Jonathan Dickinson. Built in 1930 as an extension of the wing of McCosh Hall on Washington Road and connected with the University Chapel by the Rothschild Arch, it completed the great court of which the Chapel and McCosh form two sides.

Dickinson replaced an earlier recitation and lecture hall of the same name, which stood for fifty years at the southwest corner of the site now occupied by Firestone Library and was lost in 1920 in the fire that also destroyed Marquand Chapel.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).