Rutgers University is celebrating the 200th birthday of Old Queens — New Jersey’s oldest intact higher-education building. Its cornerstone, on the New Brunswick campus, was laid on April 27, 1809.
Students, administrators and faculty yesterday took turns ringing the building’s bell, a gift from the school’s namesake, Col. Henry Rutgers.
Old Queens was designated a national landmark in 1976. Rutgers, chartered as Queen’s College in 1766, is the nation’s eighth-oldest college.