page_title: Quadrangle Club
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Quadrangle Club / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the Princeton Quadrangle Club from the back, taken in winter 2008.
context_page_description: The Princeton Quadrangle Club, often abbreviated to "Quad", is one of the eleven eating clubs at Princeton University that remain open. Located at 33 Prospect Avenue, the club is currently "sign-in," meaning it permits any second semester sophomore, junior or senior to join. The club's tradition of openness is demonstrated as far back as 1970, when Quadrangle became one of the first coeducational eating clubs.
context_section_description: The club was formed in 1896 in a house built on the south side of Prospect Avenue.  In its early years, it changed its location several times.  In 1901, it moved to the north side of "the Street," and in 1903 it moved back to the south side, where the Princeton Tower Club now stands.  In 1910 it moved to a house built in 1887 for James McCosh, the eleventh president of Princeton University.  In 1915, Quadrangle Club sold the McCosh house and built its own house, designed by Henry Milliken, Princeton Class of 1905 in a classic brick Georgian Revival structure.  The club has existed in this building since 1916.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald described Quadrangle Club in This Side of Paradise as "Literary Quadrangle."  Fitzgerald later commented that he might have felt more comfortable in "Literary Quadrangle" with contemporaries such as John Peale Bishop, an American poet.
  In 2016, Quad signed-in 115 new members, a 342% increase from the year before and more than any other sign-in eating club except for Terrace Club. The current Chairman of the Board is alumnus Dinesh Maneyapanda.
caption: View from the back, in winter
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