Connecticut Hall

Connecticut Hall
Connecticut Hall
Location1017 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Coordinates41°18′29.25″N 72°55′46.13″W / 41.3081250°N 72.9294806°W / 41.3081250; -72.9294806
Built1752 (1752)
ArchitectFrancis Letort, Thomas Bills
Architectural styleGeorgian
Restored1952
Restored byDouglas Orr
NRHP reference No.66000806[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[1]
Designated NHLDecember 21, 1965[2]

Connecticut Hall (formerly South Middle College) is a Georgian building on the Old Campus of Yale University. Completed in 1752,[3] it was originally a student dormitory, a function it retained for 200 years. Part of the first floor became home to the Yale College Dean's Office after 1905, and the full building was converted to departmental offices in the mid-twentieth century. It is currently used by the Department of Philosophy, and its third story contains a room for meetings of the Yale Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the academic faculty of Yale College and the Graduate School.

Connecticut Hall is the third-oldest of only seven surviving American colonial-era college buildings, and the second-oldest structure built for Yale College in New Haven. It was built, in part, by enslaved laborers.[4] The first building in a campus plan known as Old Brick Row that stood from 1750 to 1870, it is the only survivor of a demolition campaign that created the modern Old Campus quadrangle.[3] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ "Connecticut Hall, Yale University". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference nrhpinv3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Reid, Teanu (January 2022). "A reckoning with our past". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2022.