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==Campus, Lands, Olden Farm and Olden Manor== [[File:Olden Manor, 97 Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ.jpg|thumb|Olden Manor]] The IAS owns over 600 acres of land, most of which was acquired between 1936 and 1945. Since 1997 the institute has preserved 589 acres of woods, wetlands, and farmland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Campus & Lands|website=Institute for Advanced Study (ias.org)|url=https://www.ias.edu/campus-lands}}</ref> By 1936, for total of $290,000, the founding trustees of the IAS had purchased 256 acres, including the two-hundred-acre Olden Farm with Olden Manor, which was the former home of William Olden.<ref name=IASland>{{cite web|title=Acquiring the Land|website=Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu)|date=September 9, 2011|url=https://www.ias.edu/acquiring-land}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Olden Manor, 91 Olden Lane|website=Historical Society of Princeton (princetonhistory.org)|url=https://princetonhistory.org/green-oval-tour/olden-manor.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Olden Manor|website=Princeton, NJ (princetonnj.gov)|url=https://www.princetonnj.gov/location/olden-manor|access-date=September 16, 2020|archive-date=October 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017114819/https://www.princetonnj.gov/location/olden-manor|url-status=dead}}</ref> Olden Manor, with its extensive gardens,<ref>{{cite book|author=Bird, Kai|author-link=Kai Bird|author2=Sherwin, Martin J.|author-link2=Martin J. Sherwin|title=American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer|page=369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfSn2RJZI9EC&q=olden|date=December 18, 2007|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-42473-0}}</ref> has been, since 1940, the residence of the institute's director.<ref name=IASland/> {{blockquote|text=Olden Manor is a substantial dwelling owned and maintained by the Institute and located on its main campus on Olden Lane in Princeton Township. It is the principal residence of the Director and his family, to whom it is furnished rent-free and as a term of his employment. It is also used by the Director, on behalf of the Institute, for official entertainment and for numerous faculty and trustees' meetings and conferences. <ref>{{cite web|title=Princeton Township v. Institute for Advanced Study|website=Justia U.S. Law|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-published/1960/59-n-j-super-46-0.html}}</ref>}} <gallery heights="150px" mode="packed"> File:View of the Institute Woods from Fuld Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.jpg|View of the Institute Woods from Fuld Hall File:Institute Pond, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.jpg|The Institute Pond, created in the 1960s<ref>{{cite web |title=Times at The Institute: Art & Architecture |url=https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/amias/pdfs/tati-art-architecture.pdf |publisher=Institute for Advanced Study}}</ref> File:Founders' Walk, Institute Woods, Princeton, NJ.jpg|Founders' Walk in the Institute Woods </gallery>
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