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Princeton University East: Art and Secret Gardens, Photographer's Stroll Series

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Princeton University East, Campus Outdoor, Photographer's Stroll. This is #2 in a series of tours within a different section of the campus. I am breaking it down to be an approximate 1.2 mile hike, with about an additional mile to return to the beginning point, tops. Photographers, and slow walkers are welcome. We will hit about 10 to 12 locations on each stroll, and give everyone about 5+ minutes at each interesting point, some just walk by and through, for about an hour and a half to two hour walk. Please put your best photos in the album afterwards :)
We will meet outside Prospect Garage North. It is on Prospect Avenue, that is off of Washington. This garage is FREE on weekends, and weeknights after 4PM.

Three themes of Photographer's Strolls, rotated, by me throughout the year, doubling as walks in the future, ALL, each will be about same, 2+ miles for approximate total of 1.5 hours to 2 hours:
West: Art & Architecture
East: Art & Secret Gardens
South: Art & Life
I will update, in a comment, the night before, or early AM the day of the hike if weather is an issue, and what the scoop is... do look for same if the weather is a possible issue.

This is the second of the series: East: Art and Secret Gardens
This Art and Secret Gardens tour will cover:
-Secret Garden number 1, behind the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment - may lead to the courtyard of the School of Engineering…
-Secret Garden number 2, with Uroda statue, at Olden Ave, to the side of the Andlinger Center Building; URODA, 2015, Ursula von Rydingsvard, born 1942, Deensen, Germany; active New York, NY, Copper, steel, bronze, 2015
-School of Engineering and Applied Science: Upstart II, 1970, Clement Meadmore, American, 1929–2005, Cor-Ten steel, y1971-13
-Secret Courtyard within that building, need to find the in route: Stone Riddle, 1967, Masayuki Nagare, Japanese, 1923–2018, Black granite, y1972-41 & Thermopylae, 1961, Dimitri Hadzi, 1921–2006; born New York, NY; died Boston, MA; active Rome, Italy and Cambridge, MA, Cast bronze
-up Shapiro Walk, til we hit Fountain of Freedom, Courtyard Garden, with adjacent the Double Sights statue, by the Princeton School of International Affairs
-down Washington to Streicker Walk, go through the Dept of Philosophy, and head to Prospect House and Gardens, that has the Centaur, 1954–71, Dimitri Hadzi, 1921–2006; born New York, NY; died Boston, MA; active Rome, Italy and Cambridge, MA, Cast bronze, y1971-25
-Up Chapel drive to Two Planes Vertical Horizontal II, 1970, George Rickey, 1907–2002; born South Bend, IN; died Saint Paul, MN, Stainless steel, y1972-42.
-left to the public table concrete art, Public Table, 1978–79, by Scott Burton, 1939–1989; born Greensboro, AL; died New York, NY; active New York, Cast concrete, y1980-11
-Up around the building to the 911 Memorial Garden, Remembrance, 2000, Toshiko Takaezu, 1922–2011; born Pepeekeo, HI; died Honolulu; active Japan, Cleveland, OH, and Princeton, NJ
Cast bronze
-continuing around the building, to the Sound of the Vowels, Song of the Vowels, designed 1931–32; executed 1969, Jacques Lipchitz, 1891–1973; born Druskieniki, Lithuania; died Capri, Italy; active Paris, France, and Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Cast bronze, y1969-22
-Mather Sundial side of the Chapel, Mather Sun Dial, Based on 1579–83 design; executed ca. 1907, after Charles Turnbull, Carved limestone (Portland stone) with gun metal for gnomons (sundial points)
-Kent State Memorial: Abraham and Issac other side of the Chapel, Hibben Gardens, Abraham and Isaac: In Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State University, 1978–79, George Segal, 1924–2000; born New York, NY; died South Brunswick, NJ, Cast bronze, y1978-49
-Princeton Chapel Itself
-go up toward Nassau Street to the Betsey Stockton Garden right before hitting Nassau, on the right, behind the Firestone Library, which has a large metal sculpture, Atmosphere and Environment X, 1969–70, Louise Nevelson, 1899–1988; born Kyiv, Ukraine; died New York, NY, Cor-Ten steel, y1969-18
-On return we will walk back on Prospect Ave to see the unique homes on that block.

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Sunday 1 June 2025
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