Yankee Doodle Tap Room (Rockwell Mural)
Norman Rockwell’s largest mural, behind a tavern bar
Tucked into the historic Nassau Inn off Princeton’s Palmer Square, the Yankee Doodle Tap Room keeps a secret most travelers never expect over a pint: a 13-foot Norman Rockwell original, painted in 1937 and the largest mural the artist ever made. Commissioned by Edgar Palmer and painted onto canvas bonded to the wall — it can’t be moved without dismantling the masonry, so it has hung right there above the bar for nearly a century.
The photo
A drink under the 13-foot Rockwell, the innkeeper’s daughter watching from the painted window.
Pair it with
- Princeton University campus
- Palmer Square
- Princeton Battlefield State Park
- Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton)
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