Our History

The Princeton Charter Club, named in honor of the Charter for the College of New Jersey, was organized in 1901 and over time occupied three clubhouses: the “Incubator” on Olden Street, the David Adler 1904 design, and the present clubhouse designed by Arthur Meigs 1903, of the well-known Philadelphia firm Mellor & Meigs. The current clubhouse is an outstanding example of Philadelphia’s Georgian and Colonial Revival architecture and is widely regarded as the most beautiful clubhouse on Prospect Avenue.

The features we see today look very much like when the clubhouse first opened in 1913, due to the dedicated care by Charter’s staff for over a century.