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Voorhees Mall is a grassy area of about 25 acres (0.1 km²), adjacent to the Old Queen's campus located on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA). An eclectic mix of architectual styles, the Voorhees Mall possesses many of the older and historic academic buildings at Rutgers.

The Voorhees Mall is the site of the Commencement exercises for Rutgers College, the oldest of the constituent residential colleges at Rutgers University. It has also been the site of numerous college protests, including most recently the annual Tent State student protests against state budget cuts which adversely effect the University.

Architecture

• Ballantine Gym (burned down, 1931)
• Murray Hall
• New Jersey Hall
• Milledoler Hall
• Graduate School of Education
• School of Social Work
• Van Dyck Hall
• Ford Hall
• Scott Hall
• Voorhees Hall
• Art History Library
• Zimmerli Museum

William the Silent

Statue of Prince William the Silent on the Voorhees Mall

Fenton B. Turck, a New York physician and biologist, with the assistance of railroad magnate, and longtime Rutgers alumnus and trustee Leonor F. Loree (Rutgers College Class of 1877), anonymously donated a statute of Prince William the Silent (1533-1584) of the House of Nassau and later Prince of Orange, who was the leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Turck, of Dutch extraction, intended to give the statue to the University to signify the institution's Dutch roots. He kept the statute in the basement of his laboratory in Manhattan for eight years before it was unveiled on the present Voorhees Mall on 9 June 1928. Allegedly, the statute is said to whistle when a virgin passes by. So far, Prince William has remained silent.

This statute is a rough replica of a similar monument that stands in The Hague.

External links

• Rutgers University