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The Chapel is built of rough sand-
stone from New Jersey, and is sur-
rounded by an arcade of Ohio sand-
stone, which gives it a light and grace-
ful appearance. On the east end is a
large apse and flanking the west gable
are two massive stone towers, capped
with pierced stone spires. Of these
towers, the one nearest the Campus,
within the quadrangle, is furnished
with a clock, the dial of which is cut
stone, and which chimes the quarters
and the hours. The capitals of the
columns of the arcade were carved by
hand after the walls were built. The
interior consisted originally of a nave,
north and south transepts, and three
galleries. There was a liberal use every-
where of carving on solid oak, both in
‘molding and rosettes, and in the flow-
ered sculpture about the organ and
pulpit. The windows were made of
mosaic glass, and the greater number
are of a memorial character with many
interesting inscriptions.
The Chapel was not to serve alone as
a place of public worship but as a meet-
ing place on great academic occasions.
With the rapidly increasing number of
students it was decided that an addition
should be made, and the money required
(about $27,000) was advanced by Hon.
Robbins Battell. The plans were made
by Cady, Berg & See, of New York
City, and the work was begun and com-
pleted inside of three months, so that
at the opening of the fall term of 18938
it was ready for use. The experiment
was a success both in the improving of
the outward appearance of the Chapel
and the maintenance of good acoustic
properties. The enlargement of the
building included the addition of an
aisle on the south side, an arrangement
not uncommon in English churches,
and a gallery above. In building the
new aisle, a porch was added for the
main entrance; while the increased
breadth, and the additional columns,
arches, and broken spaces, added to the
beauty of the interior. Through the
arrangement of four aisles and the en-
largement of the gallery space on the
south side, the building was made more
convenient for daily use. There were
added 400 more sittings by this improv-
ment, and now Battell Chapel seats
more people than any other church
edifice in the city.
Sloane Laboratory.
The Sloane Physical Laboratory is
another substantial testimonial to the
thoroughness of the building methods
of Smith, Sperry & Treat. It was com-
pleted by them in 1883. It is the gift
of two brothers, Messrs. Thomas and
Henry Sloane, ’66, of New York city.
The building is located on Library street,
opposite the University Dining Hall, and
occupies a space 102 feet in depth by -
89 feet in breadth. It is two stories in
height with a high basement and tower,
the height of the latter above ground
being 100 feet. The basement is of stone
and the upper part of pressed brick with
terra cotta trimmings. There isa small
wing in front, thirty feet in width, in
which are recitation and workin grooms,
both on the first and second stories. The
lecture room in the rear occupies two
stories and seats about 200 people. There
are more working and instrument rooms
in the rear and the basement is used for
storage and experiment rooms. The
principal reasons which led to placing
the laboratory in its present seemingly
retired location were the fact that there
is comparatively little vibration of the
ground on Library street and also the
fact that plenty of sunlight is always to
be had. |
The cost was in the neighborhood of
$50,000, that being the amount donated.
The Laboratory is used exclusively for
Physics and is one of the most perfect
in the country.
Lawrance Hall.
Lawrance Hall was the third addition
to the proposed quadrangle, and the
building of this, too, went to Smith,
Sperry & Treat. It was finished in
1886. Lawrance Hall is a memorial to
Mr. Thomas G. Lawrance, a member of
the Class of ’84, who died in his Senior
year, and it was given to the Yale Cor-
poration by his mother. There are four
entries to this building, the floors being
of stone and the interior walls of red
brick, which material is used princi-
pally in the construction of the exterior
walls. Two pillars of Vermont granite
are at the entrance to each one of these
hallways. There are forty-two rooms,
most of them double rooms, in the five
stories of which Lawrance Hall consists.
The dormitory stands between the
Phelps Memorial Gateway on the south,
and Farnam Hall, and is in contact
with both of them. It fronts on the
Campus, with its rear on College street,
and the suites run the entire width of
the building.
Kent Chemical Laboratory.
The Kent Chemical Laboratory, com-
pleted in the spring of 1888, by Smith,
Sperry & Treat, is the gift of Albert E.
Kent, who graduated from Yale in 1853.
The building was erected at a cost of
about $75,000, and is located on the cor-
ner of High and Library streets, directly
opposite the Old Library. Itis two stories
in height with a high basement, and the
masonry work is entirely of brown stone.
A flight of stone steps leads up to a large
door which opens into a tiled entrance
hall a few feet higher. On the first
floor, at the right of the entrance, is a
lecture room capable of seating 200 stu-
dents. A large laboratory, accommo-
dating thirty-six men, is also located on
this floor. The laboratory on the sec-
ond floor accommodates twenty-four
students and the one in the basement
twelve students. The general store room
for apparatus is also in the basement,
and from it all the laboratories are sup-
plied. ° On the second floor is a private
laboratory for the use of Professor
Gooch, and several smaller lecture
rooms and assistants’ rooms. A large
sunny room in the tower is used as a
technical library and contains all the
standard works that the students may
wish to consult.
The arrangements for ventilating were
the subject of much study. Ventilat-
ing shafts run from the walls of the
various rooms to the roof, where the
vapors are emitted through orifices in
the gables.
A large amount was expended in pur-
chasing the apparatus, and in all re-
spects the laboratory is one of the finest
in the country. |
Welch Wall,
The foundations of Welch Hall, one
of the handsomest of Yale’s buildings,
were started early in the spring of 1891,
and it was completed in 1892. The de-
Signs were made by Bruce Price, and
Smith, Sperry & Treat received for the
seventh time the contract to build a
Yale building. The general exterior of
Welch Hall is more like that of Durfee
than any of the other buildings, but the
material is Longmeadow rock sand-
stone, carved in many places, with a
few trimmings of granite. The style
of architecture is very mixed, but cer-
tainly very imposing. The arches of
the building are elliptical and it hasa
steep roof, very much like Durfee, with
dormer windows.
The basement of the building contains
four large bath rooms, which were lack-
ing up to this time in the construction
of the College dormitories. The entire
basement, as well as the halls of the
building, are faced with Philadelphia
buff-colored brick. The dimensions are
168x46, with four stories above the
ground, The plana of the rooms, how-
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ever, is more like that of White Hall, as
the suites do not extend clear through
the width of the building, as in Law-
rance Hall, but the parlors and bed-
rooms are on the same side of the build-
ing. Each room has an open fire-place
and is furnished with steam heat. The
studies on the second and third floors
have bay windows. On the first, sec-
ond and third floors there are six double
and six single rooms, but on the fourth
floor there are eight double and four
single rooms, making a total of twenty-
six double and twenty-two single rooms,
giving accommodations to seventy-four
students. The dormitory is situated on
College street, directly in front of South
Middle, the oldest College building
standing, and has three entries, the
middle one of which extends through
from College street to the Campus.
The name of the donor of the build-
ing was withheld, at his request, until
the dormitory was nearly completed,
and it was announced in the President’s
report for the year to be that of Mr.
Pierce N. Welch of this city, who took
his degree of Bachelor of Arts from
Yale in 1862, Mr. Welch presented the
building to the College as a memorial
to his father, the late Hon. Harmanus
M. Welch, who was for many years a
prominent citizen of New Haven.
Much speculation was indulged in as to
the donor, but it was generally believed _
to be Mr. Welch previous to the an-
nouncement. The room on the south-
east corner is always reserved for a
member of the Welch family, whenever
there is one in College.
The building occupies in part the site
of the old Fence.
The infirmary.
The sum of money needed for the
erection of the Infirmary, or home for
students who require care in case of ill-
ness, was substantially made complete
in the early spring of 1892.
tract went to Smith, Sperry & Treat.
A. lot on Prospect street, opposite the
rear portion of the Hillhouse estate,was
purchased at the beginning of the year
and satisfactory plans were soon after
prepared by Messrs. J. Cleveland Cady
& Co., of New York. The building was
completed about the first of December,
and a formal opening for the inspection
of those who had generously contributed
to the fund for its erection was held on
January 25, 1893. |
The length of the building is eighty-
two feet and its width forty-two feet.
It has three stories and contains, in
addition to a reception room, office, din-
ing room and rooms for the matrons
and other attendants, nineteen rooms
for students. It is in an excellent situa-
tion, and is exceedingly comfortable in
every respect, and well adapted to all
its purposes. Through the efforts and
generous gifts of the ladies who were
interested in the securing of this build-
ing for the University, the sum of
thirty-eight thousand seven hundred
dollars was received by the. Treasurer
before the end of the year 1892. Of this
sum, thirty-five thousand four hundred
dollars was given for the purchase of
the lot, and the erection of the building,
and the remainder to meet the expense
of furnishing it. )
Students who from time to time are
cared for in this building, in general,
pay all expenses incurred in their behalf. .
In occasional instances, however, where
this proves impossible, it is necessary to
provide rooms and care free of charge.
White Hall.
When the awards of the contract for |
the building of White Hall was an-
nounced no one was surprised to see it
go to Smith, Sperry & Treat, who had
come to be looked on as the College
builders. The work throughout testi-
fies to the solidity of the firm and its
principles of construction. It is consid-
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ered by many to be Yale’s best dormi-
tory. The plans were drawn by Cady.
Berg & See, of New York, and consid-
ering the long, flat style which was
adopted for utilitarian purposes, a won-
derfully pleasing and harmonius whole
was produced by these able archi-
tects and builders. The money, $150,000,
was given by Dr. Andrew J. White, a
graduate of the Yale Medical School in
the Class of ’46, and the building bears
Dr. White’s name.
White Hall was completed in 1894
with its present appearance, but this is
only half of what is hoped to be an ex-
ceedingly beautiful piece of architec-
ture, the plan being to erect in time
another building similar to the present
one with a court between them, thus
forming with East and West Divinity
Hall a substantial beginning of the
prospective new quadrangle.
White Hall is at present one of the
most popular of the College dormito-
ries, although it is not directly on the
College yard. It occupies the northeast
corner of Elm and High streets, diag-
onally opposite the Peabody Museum.
It is constructed of red pressed brick,
with terra cotta trimmings, and is of a
Renaissance style that prevailed in the
English manor-houses of the time of
Wren. It is four stories in height and
the rooms, fifty-two in number, are
reached by three entries, lined with
brick, similar to those in Welch Hall.
The stairs are of stone with iron rail-
ings, and the entry floors are paved
with mosaic tiling, rendering the build-
ing absolutely fire-proof. Each floor
has its own water supply and bathroom:
all the study rooms and bedrooms are
wainscoted, the former being supplied
with large open fire-places and hand-
some mantel-pieces. The rooms in
White Hall are almost all double suites,
furnishing accommodations for ninety-
six students, with the study and _ bed-
rooms facing on the same side of the
building, unlike the plan of the suites
in Durfee Hall. In the first entry the
basement contains the offices of the
College periodicals, the Yale Literary
Magazine, Yale Courant and Yale Ree-
ord, while in the second entry are the
offices of the Yale News and YALE
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Running parallel to Elm street and
joining White Hall on the east is a high
iron fence of about sixty. feet in length,
with several entrances and gates, in the
center of which is a porter’s lodge.
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Berkeley Hall.
Berkeley Hall was constructed at the
same time as White Hall, and by the
same builders, Smith, Sperry & Treat,
and is situated on High street imme-
diately north of and in contact with it.
It has but one entry with about eight
rooms on a floor, most of which are sin-
gle, and less expensive than those in
White. There are forty rooms in all
and they are furnished in much the
same manner as those of her sister dor-
mitory, with fire-places and wainscoted
walls, but with no window-seats. The
material for its construction was red
pressed brick, with stone trimmings,
and it was built to accommodate about
fifty students.
At the time of the planning of White
Hall it was found necessary for the Cor-
poration to purchase a small amount of
property in addition to what they already
owned on High street, and after some
deliberation it was decided to buy a
greater amount of land, and to erect
another building from the funds of the
College to meet the growing demand
for more students’ accommodation.
The plans were made by Cady, Berg &
See, of New York. It was finished at
the same time as White Hall, and ata
meeting of the Corporation it was de-
cided to name it in honor of Bishop
Berkeley, one of the early benefactors
of the College.
