When the Lawrenceville School was founded in 1810 as an academy to prepare young men for nearby Princeton University, in New Jersey, its first built facility was a Federal-style stone schoolhouse where all activity took place. The property has since grown beyond the 200-year-old building (a National Historic Landmark and still in use) into a 700-acre coeducational campus for 800-plus high school students that attracts as much attention for its traditional English-style grounds, from a scheme devised by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880s, as for its celebrated Socratic approach to learning, its sports facilities, and 30-acre solar field.

Fritted film on the glass mitigates sunlight inside where new and existing surfaces and structures are exposed. Photo © Jane Messinger, click to enlarge.