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== Clubhouse ==
The club occupies a large mansion on the north side of Prospect Avenue in Princeton, NJ.  The building is easily recognizable by its four large white columns fashioned in Colonial style. The current building has served as the clubhouse for Colonial since 1906. After originally occupying several locations farther away from campus, the current house was built during a time of strong rivalry between eating clubs, across the street from rival clubs Ivy and Cottage.

[[File:Colonial Club in the Winter.jpg|thumb|Colonial club in the winter]]

Colonial's first clubhouse was located on 306 Nassau Street and served as the club's residence for only one year. In 1892,  the club moved to a house on 186 Nassau Street fashioned in the period's cottage architecture, featuring a front facade in the [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] style. The club subsequently moved to Prospect Avenue in 1897, taking over the old Ivy Club house and changing the exterior by adding decorative columns and enlarging the lower floor. This third clubhouse lasted 9 years until the current clubhouse was built, funded by the issuance of [[Bond (finance)|bonds]] to graduate members and alumni. The new clubhouse was designed by associated architects [[Robert W. Gibson]] and Francis G. Stewart of [[New York City]].<ref>"Plates and Illustrations," ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JFIiAQAAMAAJ Architecture]'' 12, no. 1 (July 15 1905): 101.</ref>

The current clubhouse features a wide variety of facilities, including a large foyer, cloak room, dining hall, kitchen, library, home theatre, game and billiards room, taproom, computer cluster, offices, various study rooms, and over a dozen bedrooms. The club's undergraduate officers reside in the mansion's third floor.