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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 ...
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]
Connecticut Hall on the left and Welch Hall on the right. The Old Campus is the oldest area of the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut.It is the principal residence of Yale College freshmen and also contains offices for the academic departments of Classics, English, History, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy.
The University Commons, simply known as "Commons" on campus, is a timber-trussed banqueting hall. [2] It served as the university-wide dining hall until the completion of the residential colleges, Sterling Law Building, and Hall of Graduate Studies in the 1930s. Woolsey Hall was the university's first large secular assembly hall, with 2,691 ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Help. Pages in category "Yale University buildings" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Yale University ...
The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian Renaissance painting, African sculpture, and modern art ...
Model of the Memorial Quadrangle. The Memorial Quadrangle is a residential quadrangle at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Commissioned in 1917 to supply much-needed student housing for Yale College, it was Yale's first Collegiate Gothic building and its first project by James Gamble Rogers, who later designed ten other major buildings for the university.