Little, Stafford, Hall

Little, Stafford, Hall, which Scott Fitzgerald likened to a snake winding its way from Blair Hall to the Gymnasium, was built half in 1899, half in 1901. It was Princeton's second collegiate Gothic building and was designed, as was the first -- Blair Hall -- by the Philadelphia firm of Cope and Stewardson. Little had the honor also of being the first dormitory built with bathrooms.

The donor, Stafford Little 1844 (who also endowed the Stafford Little Lectureship), was a founder and first president of the New York and Long Branch Railroad, and for several years president of the New Jersey Senate. He was a trustee of Princeton from 1901 to 1904.

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