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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 ...
[12]: 331 Seeking to build new science facilities and bring the Sheffield Scientific School under greater university control and strengthen university science research, Yale raised funds from Olivia Sage to purchase the estate in 1910, renaming it Pierson-Sage Square. [7] [12] [13] It was the largest single acquisition of land since Yale's founding
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. The library's tower has sixteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes.
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 ...
In April 2016, the university announced that the colleges would be named after Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin. [6] Franklin was chosen at the behest of Charles B. Johnson , class of 1954, who had made the single largest gift in Yale's history of $250 million to support construction of the new colleges.
Edward P. Evans Hall is the main building of the Yale School of Management at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Designed by Foster and Partners, it was named for alumnus Edward P. Evans, and completed in 2013. It is known for its architectural design and the high quality of the artwork onsite.
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 second-largest university collection in the United ...