Upper and Lower Pyne, gifts of Moses Taylor Pyne 1877, were built in 1896. Lower Pyne still stands at the northeast corner of Nassau and Witherspoon streets. Upper Pyne was razed in 1963 to make way for the Princeton Bank and Trust Company building at 76 Nassau Street. Upper and Lower Pyne were designed by Raleigh C. Gildersleeve on the model of sixteenth-century houses in Chester, England. They were planned to provide space for shops at the street level, dormitory rooms for undergraduates in the stories above. In 1950 the dormitory rooms were converted to offices.

A sundial on the front of Upper Pyne bore on its face a Latin epigram about the passing hours which proved to be prophetic: VULNERANT OMNES: ULTIMA NECAT (They all wound, the last one kills).

Source: Leitch p. 485

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