Street Hall
Encyclopedia
Street Hall is a historic building on the Yale University
campus
. It was the first collegiate art school in the United States and a gift from Augustus Russell Street
to Yale for the establishment its School of Fine Arts. It was designed by Peter Bonnett Wight
.
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
. It was the first collegiate art school in the United States and a gift from Augustus Russell Street
Augustus Russell Street
Augustus Russell Street was a philanthropist who made significant donations to Yale University.He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Titus Street , the founder of Streetsboro Township, Ohio, and his wife, née Amaryllis Atwater...
to Yale for the establishment its School of Fine Arts. It was designed by Peter Bonnett Wight
Peter Bonnett Wight
Peter B. Wight was a 19th century architect from New York City who worked there and in Chicago.-Biography:Wight's career "flourished in the 1860s and 1870s in New York, where he developed a decorative, historicist style that showed affinities to the work of European designers John Ruskin and...
.
