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University Cottage ClubHistory of the University Cottage Club
In 1884, a group of freshmen, members of the Class of 1888, chose to eat in a private room on the second floor of Dohm’s Restaurant on Nassau Street across from the campus. In their sophomore year the group moved up Nassau Street to a hotel on the corner of Railroad Avenue (now University Place) known as The University Hotel. In September of their junior year they found a small house immediately south of The University Hotel on Railroad Avenue (where Hamilton Hall now stands) owned by the college and known as The University Cottage. A couple was hired to cook and serve their meals. The group agreed on the name “The University Cottage Club of Princeton” popularly known today as “Cottage.”
As time passed, the cottage that gave the Club its name and which seemed so commodious to its founding members, proved to be inadequate as the Sections grew. In 1890, a lot on Prospect Street (upon which today’s clubhouse stands) was purchased and a shingled Victorian clubhouse was built in 1892. The enrollment continued to grow and this structure was moved to Library Place when plans were made for a larger building. The current two and a half story Georgian Revival clubhouse was designed by Charles Follem McKim of the New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White in 1903 and built in 1906.
The library on the second floor is modeled on the fourteenth century library in Merton College, Oxford University. Many rooms are paneled in English oak, with carved ceilings and cornices. Great marble fireplaces grace several areas with mottoes over the mantels. In the Dining Room, one such carving reads “Ubi Amici Ibidem Sunt Opes” (“Where there are friends there are riches”) which has become over the years a motto of the Club.
In 1979, the Cottage Club was one of three all-male eating clubs sued by 1980 Princeton graduate Sally Frank for sex discrimination. Ms. Frank prevailed in 1985. Following the suit, the Club voted to admit women in early 1986.
UCC Today
Today, as in the past, the Club’s purpose is not only to be a gathering place for meals and friendship, but also a sanctuary to study, relax and enhance the quality of life for its current members, alumni and their guests.
On September 14, 1999, the Club was entered onto the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. On November 15, 1999, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places based on the architectural structure of the building, high degree of historic integrity, and significant cultural contributions to the community.
The Club is currently embroiled in a dispute with the Borough of Princeton and state legislators regarding its request for tax exemption based on its inclusion in the Register of Historic Places. The dispute hinges on whether or not the Club is open to the public, as is required for tax exemption.
Alumni
* Several noteworthy individuals have been members, including:
o Edgar Palmer ’03,
o Breckenridge Long ’03, (State Department)
o John Foster Dulles ’08,
o Dean Mathey ’12,
o James Forrestal
’15,
o F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 (he began his novel "This Side
of Paradise" in the University Cottage Club library),
o Livingston T.
Merchant ’26,
o Henry R. Labouisse ’26,
o Leonard K. Firestone
’33,
o Jose Ferrer ’35,
o John N. Irwin ’37,
o Nicholas
deB. Katzenbach ’43,
o Brendan T. Byrne ’49, (Governor)
o Dick
Kazmaier ’52,
o Christopher S. Bond ’60, (Governor, Senator)
o Bill Bradley ’65, (Senator)
o Bill Frist ’74, (Senator)
o
Pulitzer Prize winners John McPhee ’53 and A. Scott Berg ’71.
*
Honorary members include: Grover Cleveland, George Dewey and Woodrow Wilson.
* Over the years fifteen members have been Rhodes Scholars.
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