46. Cloaca Maxima
This sunken structure was called the Cloaca Maxima and served as the College’s main sanitary facility in the late nineteenth century. Named after a Roman sewer drain constructed in the second century BC, Princeton’s stone and brick Cloaca Maxima replaced the wooden outhouses that had previously been situated near each campus building and frequently targeted by student pranksters and arsonists. It was situated between the old Whig and Clio buildings, a location that then formed the back of thePrinceton campus.
- To learn more about residential life at Princeton,
see quotation #33 and Café Vivian picture
#1, 11, 62,
85, 127, and 128.
- To learn more about campus fires, see icon #5
and Café Vivian picture #4, 8,
58, 61, and 78.
- To learn more about Princeton’s vanished
buildings, see Café Vivian picture #6,
8, 25, 37,
40, 48, 58,
62, 78, and 127.
- To learn more about campus grounds and buildings, see icon #1, 5, and 8, quotation #5, 7, 9, 28, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 33, 37, 40, 48, 54, 58, 61, 62, 67, 68, 71, 78, 85, 87, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 118, 124, 127, and 133.