Old Queens Building, Rutgers University

The oldest building on the Rutgers University campus, dating to 1809 but standing on the grounds of Queens College, chartered in 1766 as the colonial predecessor of Rutgers. Queens College was the eighth college founded in colonial America, established by the Dutch Reformed Church and intimately connected to the Bergen and Middlesex County communities that experienced the Revolution's full arc — occupation, forage wars, and liberation. The Rutgers campus preserves and interprets the colonial and Revolutionary history of New Brunswick through its library collections and Queens Campus.