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Street Hall, late 1800s. Street Hall is a historic building on Old Campus of Yale University. It housed the first collegiate art school in the United States, a gift from Augustus Russell Street, a native of New Haven and graduate of the Class of 1812, to Yale for the establishment its School of Fine Arts. [2] It was designed by Peter Bonnett ...
The exterior of Osborn Memorial Labs. The Osborn Memorial Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut were built in 1913 as the home for biology at Yale University.In the past, they contained both zoology and botany, in the two wings on Sachem Street and Prospect Street (address: 165 Prospect St.).
The building is home to the Yale University Department of Biology and is currently the tallest building on the Yale campus and the fourth-tallest building in New Haven. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was the tallest building in the city from 1966 to 1969, and was designed by Philip Johnson , [ 3 ] who also designed the nearby—and architecturally related ...
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 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 ...
Battell Chapel is the largest chapel of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1874–76, it was funded primarily with gifts from Joseph Battell and others of his family. Succeeding two previous chapel buildings on Yale's Old Campus , it provided space for daily chapel services, which were mandatory for Yale College students until ...
Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight, was opened as the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1866, and included exhibition galleries on the second floor. The exterior was in a neo-Gothic style, with an appearance influenced by 13th-century Venetian palaces. These spaces are the oldest ones still in use as part of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus.