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Choreographer and filmmaker Merli Guerra has created 360-degree, extended reality videos that use dance to tell stories about the history of the Colonnade at the Princeton Battlefield State Park.
The videos are viewable on mobile phones as augmented reality if you are on the battlefield grounds or as a virtual reality experience when viewed elsewhere. The park, the site of the 1777 Battle of Princeton, helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War. The Colonnade was built a half-century after the battle as part of a mansion designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, an architect of the U.S. Capitol building. After the original mansion’s demolition in 1900, the structure of four stone columns was moved from Philadelphia to Princeton to adorn the Mercer Manor, which stood at the edge of the battlefield. The Colonnade survived the 1957 demolition of Mercer Manor and was dedicated as a national historic monument in 1962 that serves as a marker for the nearby gravesite of fallen American and Br