[4] A more recent account described Ivy as the "most patrician eating club at Princeton University" where members "eat at long tables covered with crisp white linens and set with 19th-century Sheffield silver candelabra, which are lighted even when daylight streams into the windows.

Current undergraduate members host regular "Roundtable Dinners" featuring talks by faculty and alumni.

It had been constructed by Richard Stockton Field in 1847 as the home for the Princeton Law School, a short-lived venture that lasted from 1847 to 1852.

"[9] In 1883 the club purchased an empty lot on Prospect Avenue, which was a country dirt road at the time.

[11] Designed by Demetri Porphyrios, the new wing includes a two-story Great Hall and a crypt to provide additional study space.