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The Bicentennial Buildings–University Commons, the Memorial Rotunda, and Woolsey Hall–were the first buildings constructed for Yale University as opposed to one of its constituent entities (Yale College, Sheffield Scientific School, or others), reflecting a greater emphasis on central administration initiated by Presidents Timothy Dwight and Arthur Twining Hadley. [1]
Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut.It is made up of the original nine squares laid out in 1638 to form New Haven, including the New Haven Green, and the immediate surrounding central business district, as well as a significant portion of the Yale University campus.
In a February 1929 speech to recent graduates, Yale University President James Angell announced plans for building a new quadrangle to house the Yale Graduate School, [8] and construction began the next year. [9] Some had expected this development to cause the demolition of Mory's, but blueprints were drawn to exclude the historic restaurant. [10]
The library's 122,500-square-foot (11,380 m 2) footprint would take up more than half a city block. Twenty buildings were cleared for its construction, many of them private homes. [9] Although excavation began in the fall of 1927, the construction site was not fully secured until July 1928, when the final holdout homeowner agreed to sell. [10 ...
The street's mansions were completed by 1871. In this 1905 photograph, Sachem's Wood is still visible. The avenue is named for James Hillhouse (1754–1832) (and his son James Abraham Hillhouse, 1789–1841), innovator in land use in New Haven, who began the program of tree planting that gave New Haven its nickname, The Elm City, and who laid out the Trumbull Plan for Yale College and the ...
Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, as seen from Maya Lin's sculpture, Women's Table. The sculpture records the number of women enrolled at Yale over its history; female undergraduates were not admitted until 1969. Yale University Library, which holds over 15 million volumes, is the third-largest university collection in the United States.
The map was acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s and was said to be the earliest depiction of the New World. Yale University's controversial Vinland Map is a fake, new study confirms Skip to main content
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (/ ˈ b aɪ n ɪ k i /) is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and is one of the largest collections of such texts. [1]