Walking Tours

Princeton (General)

• Arts Council of Princeton’s Tour of the Public Art Around Town. 

• "Oh, Take a Hike...Around Princeton" from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 17, 2000. Link to map

• Princeton Revolutionary War Tour, walking or driving tour from Free Walking Tours

• Ten Crucial Days, a walking, driving tour of Revolutionary War sites in the Princeton area. Includes maps and descriptions.

• Another Ten Crucial Days tour

• Battles of Trenton and Princeton tour. Download guide to the sites.

Historical Society of Princeton

A complete list of tours can be found here and includes the following:

• Albert E. Hinds Memorial Walking Tour, African American Life in Princeton. A printed map can be found here.

• "Green Oval" Tour: A Snapshot of 18th Century Princeton

• Hamilton's Princeton

• Garden State History Garden Digital Exhibition

• Jews in an Ivy League Town: The Evolution of Princeton’s Jewish Community

• Princeton Public Schools: A History

• House Tour 2016, a printed guide to a fundraiser for the Historical Society of Princeton that includes a picture of the five featured houses, the address, and a brief history.

Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society

• Virtual Historical Tour

• Explore the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society's Heritage Tour, blog post by Dana Treichler from the Princeton Public Library

• "Walk Through History on the Witherspoon-Jackson Heritage Tour," by Rebekah Schroeder, February 9, 2022, PrincetonInfo (US 1)

Princeton University

• Stories of African American Life at Princeton

• General information about the African American Tour

• Stories of Asians and Asian Americans at Princeton

• Stories of Women at Princeton

• Historical Campus Landscape, part of the Princeton and Slavery Project

• Art and Slavery at Princeton

• Campus Art Tours

• Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours

• Putnam Collection, a campus art tour

• Browse the art on the University Campus

• Orange Key Tours (campus in person tours for prospective students and visitors. There are virtual options)

• Downloadable PDFs with walking tours for Gardening, Sculpture, and Grotesques (gargoyles) from the Princetoniana Museum

• "The Spires of Princeton University: An Architectural Tour of the Campus" by Laurel M. Cantor. Available through the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive, which allows researchers to locate older, archived versions of websites.