Woolworth Center of Musical Studies

Woolworth Center of Musical Studies was constructed in 1963. It was largely the gift of Frasier McCann '30 and his sister, Mrs. Helena McCann Charlton, and was named in memory of their grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth. Other donors gave some of the rooms, which are marked by memorial plaques.

In addition to classrooms and offices, Woolworth contains a record library and listening rooms, individual and ensemble practice rooms, studios for private lessons, and a rehearsal room that is also used for small student concerts.

Moore & Hutchins, of New York, were the architects; Bolt, Beranek & Newman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the accoustical consultants.

A bronze plaque in the entranceway pays tribute to the two men whose dreams and work culminated in the Woolworth Center: Roy Dickinson Welch (1885-1951) founding chairman of the Department of Music, and Paul Bedford 1897, trustee and benefactor.

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