Cap is located at 61 Prospect Avenue between
Cloister Inn and the
University Cottage Club. It is the only Princeton eating club to have stayed in the same geographic location for its entire existence. Three Cap clubhouses have occupied this location. The first was completed in 1892. In 1895 when the club outgrew this clubhouse, the structure was moved across the street, and
William Ralph Emerson was commissioned to design the second clubhouse (completed in 1896). Ten years later, Cap was ready to expand again. The Emerson building was moved away, and Raleigh Gildersleeve designed the clubhouse that Cap still occupies today. A major renovation and expansion of the clubhouse to increase the size of the clubhouse in step with its growing membership was completed in February 2011. On December 9, 2020, the Cap and Gown Club Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new financial aid policy that provides a grant to every member on Princeton University financial aid, guaranteeing that no member on full financial aid pays any out-of-pocket costs for club membership. Notable Cap and Gown alumni include
Dean Cain '88,
Brooke Shields '87, and
Donald Rumsfeld '54. Neurosurgeon
Wilder Penfield, who pioneered the concept of the brain homunculus, was also a member of Cap and Gown. ==References==