Jadwin Hall

Jadwin Hall, headquarters of the Department of Physics, was dedicated in 1970 as a memorial to Stanley Palmer Jadwin, whose widow on her death in 1964 left $27 million -- virtually the entire family estate -- to the University. Portions of this gift were used for the construction of the gymnasium in memory of her son, L. Stockwell Jadwin '28, as well as for the mathematics-physics-statistics center, represented by Jadwin Hall and Fine Hall.

Jadwin and Fine Halls stand just west of Palmer Stadium and southwest of Peyton Hall and are connected by a joint library located beneath the plaza between them. Counting the two levels beneath the plaza, Jadwin Hall has altogether six floors, containing ninety laboratories, eighty-four offices, and eight classrooms. On the main floor is a meeting room for the physics faculty named for Princeton's first physicist, Joseph Henry, and adjacent to it a lounge named for its donor, Peter A. Ballentine '35.

Jadwin Hall was designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its basic construction, like Fine Hall's, is of reinforced concrete and steel, and the principal exterior materials are Canadian granite and brick. The plaza is paved with a stone known as London Walk.

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