Prospect House

At the point when Prospect was gained in 1849 by John Potter, an affluent shipper from Charleston, South Carolina, he supplanted the provincial structure with the present house. In 1878, Robert L. what's more, Alexander Stuart of New York purchased the house and going with 35-section of land domain and deeded it to Princeton University, referred to around then as the College of New Jersey. Starting in 1879, the house filled in as home of Princeton University's leaders. James McCosh, its first inhabitant, thought the house was the finest on the planet for a school president and that its grounds resembled Eden. As the grounds expanded, understudies started to take alternate routes over the yards and garden of Prospect, denying it of some of its "Garden of Eden" characteristics. After an especially egregious case of trespassing by a rampaging football swarm, Woodrow Wilson, at that point University President and Prospect occupant, raised an iron fence encasing five sections of land of the grounds in 1904.