Flagpole installation inPrinceton, NJ

Flagpoles in Princeton

A university town with a small and expensive downtown, and a research and corporate corridor around it. We cover Princeton and the Mercer County, New Jersey area, including the Princeton University campus and Nassau Hall, Nassau Street and Palmer Square, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Princeton Battlefield and the Route 1 research corridor.

Wind here. Princeton sits in an inland, wooded and sheltered area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. A great deal of Princeton sits inside designated historic districts, and the Historic Preservation Commission looks at height, placement and finish before a permit is issued. The other constraint is the canopy. The trees along Nassau Street and through the campus are mature and heavy, and a flag that clips a limb will be in ribbons within a season, so we measure the fly zone before we settle the sightline. Campus and school poles go in with an internal halyard as a matter of course: the rope runs inside the shaft behind a locking door, so there is nothing left outside to pull on. Wind sizing here is unremarkable, which keeps the shaft cost sensible.

Most of the people who call us from Princeton are university and seminary buildings, private and public schools, research and corporate campuses, churches, historic-district properties and municipal facilities.