United States
Walter Lowrie House
United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
Located at 83 Stockton Street in Princeton, New Jersey, the Walter Lowrie House is now the official residence of Princeton University's president. Built in 1845 by Commodore Robert F. Stockton for his son John P. Stockton (both U.S. senators from New Jersey), the mansion was designed by architect John Notman in the Italianate revival style—a hallmark of Notman's influential work popularizing that aesthetic in America. The home passed through several distinguished owners, including Paul Tulane, founder of Tulane University, before Barbara Armour and her husband Walter Lowrie, an Episcopal rector and renowned Kierkegaard scholar, took residence in 1930. Upon Walter Lowrie's death in 1959, his widow donated the house to Princeton University in his memory, and it served as a guest house before becoming the president's residence in 1968.
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