Sights in New Haven
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Peabody Museum of Natural History
Wannabe paleontologists will be thrilled by the dinosaurs at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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New Haven Green
New Haven’s spacious green has been the spiritual center of the city since its Puritan fathers designed it in 1638 as the prospective site for Christ’s Second Coming. Since then it has held the municipal burial grounds – graves were later moved to Grove Street Cemetery – several statehouses and an array of churches, three of which still stand. The 1816 Trinity Church is Episcopal and resembles England’s Gothic York Minster, featuring several Tiffany windows. The Georgian-style 1812 Center Church on the Green (United Church of Christ), a fine New England interpretation of Palladian architecture, harbors many colonial tombstones in its crypt. The 1814 United Churc…
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Grove Street Cemetery
Three blocks north of the green, this cemetery holds the graves of several famous New Havenites behind its grand Egyptian Revival gate, including rubber magnate Charles Goodyear, the telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, lexicographer Noah Webster and cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney. It was the first chartered cemetery in the country in 1797 and the first to arrange graves by family plots. Around the turn of the century, Yale medical students would sneak in at night to dig up bodies for dissection, but you can simply join the free walking tour at 11am on Saturdays.
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Tomb
The Tomb is not open to the public. This is the home of Yale’s most notorious secret society, the Skull & Bones Club, founded in 1832, and its list of members reads like a ‘who’s who’ of high-powered judges, financiers, politicians, publishers and intelligence officers. Stories of bizarre initiation rites and claims that the Tomb is full of stolen booty like Hitler’s silverware and the skulls of Apache warrior Geronimo and Mexican general Pancho Villa further fuel popular curiosity.
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Yale University
Each year, thousands of high school students make pilgrimages to Yale University, nursing dreams of attending the country's third-oldest university, which boasts such notable alums as Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, and Presidents William H Taft, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. You don't need to share the students' ambitions to take a stroll around the campus, which evokes the university's illustrious history and impact on American life.
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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Among the more compelling places to visit at Yale University is the state-of-the-art Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the world’s largest building devoted to rare books, which includes a 1455 Gutenberg Bible among its 600,000 manuscripts.
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Yale University Art Gallery
America's oldest university art museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, boasts American masterworks by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock, as well as a superb European collection that includes Vincent van Gogh's The Night Café.
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Amistad Memorial
The 14-foot bronze Amistad Memorial stands in front of City Hall on the spot where 55 kidnapped African slaves who had sought their freedom were imprisoned in 1839 while awaiting one of a series of trails that would ultimately release them.
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White Space Gallery
A new arrival on the scene, the White Space Gallery is geared toward serious collectors and features hand-signed lithographs by surrealists such as Dalí and Chagall.
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Center Church on the Green
The Georgian-style 1812 Center Church on the Green, a fine New England interpretation of Palladian architecture, harbors many colonial tombstones in its crypt.
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Yale Center for British Art
You may also want to pop into the Yale Center for British Art, which holds the most comprehensive British art collection outside the UK.
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Creative Arts Workshop
Specializing in the visual arts, the three-story Creative Arts Workshop offers classes as well as exhibitions in two galleries.
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John Slade Ely House
In a stately 1905 building, the John Slade Ely House puts on four shows a year in a variety of media.
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United Church
The 1814 United Church, at the northeastern corner of the green, is a Georgian-Palladian work.
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