Eagleton Institute of Politics
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Wood Lawn
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Location in Middlesex County, New Jersey
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| Location | Clifton Avenue Cook/Douglass Campus, Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
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| Coordinates | 40°28′54″N 74°26′00″W / 40.4817°N 74.4332°WCoordinates: 40°28′54″N 74°26′00″W / 40.4817°N 74.4332°W |
| Area | 78 acres (32 ha) |
| Architect | McKim, Mead and White |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 78001772 |
| NJRHP # | 1883 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 8, 1978 |
| Designated NJRHP | April 15, 1977 |
The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University was established in 1956 with an endowment from Florence Peshine Eagleton (1870–1953), and it focuses on state and national politics through education and public service.
The Institute is located at the Cook-Douglass Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey and is housed at Wood Lawn, which listed is the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places.
Florence Peshine Eagleton was a suffragist and a founder of the New Jersey League of Women Voters who advocated women's higher education. She was one of the first women to serve as a Trustee of Rutgers University. She willed more than $1,000,000 to establish the Wells Phillips Eagleton and Florence Peshine Eagleton Foundation, which became the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Eagleton directed that her support be applied:
... for the advancement of learning in the field of practical political affairs and government [so] that a knowledge of the meaning of democracy may be increased through the education of young women and men in democratic government. ... It is my settled conviction that the cultivation of civic responsibility and leadership among the American people in the field of practical political affairs is of vital and increasing importance to our state and nation ... I make this gift especially for the development of and education for responsible leadership in civic and governmental affairs and the solution of their political problems.
The Eagleton Institute of Politics has several centers and programs:
Other programs and initiatives include:
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