20 21 22 NEW HAVEN MODERN ARCHITECTURE Celebrating modern architecture in New Haven–the mid-century architects’ playground. CHARLOTTE HITCHCOCK ENZO FIGUERES Conte Elementary School Quinnipiac School English Shelter 15 Wooster Place 805 Quinnipiac Avenue Hillhouse Drive, East Rock Park Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architect: Perkins & Will; Architect: Robert T. & Jean Coolidge Date: 1962 Granberry, Cash, & Associates Date: 1953 The complex is composed of three Date: 1965, 1968 This is a novel Modernist design that uses rectangular pavilions surrounded by pre- Educational philosophy in the 1960s favored an abstract geometry of the triangle in steel cast concrete colonnades. The thin open teaching spaces. This is evident in the and stone. The picnic shelter’s design made post-and-lintel forms lend an airiness classrooms with glass walls and in the visual a radical departure from traditional rustic to the formal façade. flow between interior and exterior spaces. park architecture.
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Leavy Residence Logue Residence Hopkins School Fieldhouse 70 Autumn Street 8 Reservoir Street 986 Forest Road Architect: Granbery, Cash, & Associates Architect: Chester E. Bowles, Jr. Architect: Douglas Orr Date: 1967 Date: 1955 Date: 1938 This house, sitting on a concrete-walled This unusual example of a rustic Modernist Three parallel steel arches form the backbone plinth behind a flat lawn, makes a bold house in an urban setting was designed for of this building’s large interior space. The statement with crisp geometry, lack of Edward Logue, Development Administrator minimal ornamentation and abstraction of decorative trim, and glazed areas which for Mayor Richard C. Lee’s urban renewal form suggests a simplified classicism, and act as voids against solid volumes. program. an early Modernist sensibility.
FRONT COVER GREGSON PHOTO: ROBERT 1 Armstrong Rubber Company
DIXWELL 24 13 23 500 Sargent Drive
PROSPECT 14 15 Architect: Marcel Breuer & Robert F. Gatje GOFFE WHITNEY 12 SACHEM Date: 1968 WHALLEY Originally set like sculpture on a large green TOWER space, the building is organized in two ELM 22 Discover New Haven’s Mid-Century Modern 11 16 sections: a two-story research/warehouse Our Mission: To honor and preserve New Haven’s 17 GROVE 10 at the bottom and an office block elevated architectural heritage—historic building and 25 HOWE WALL architectural heritage, recorded in over ORANGE above, supported at the sides by massive YORK CHAPEL PARK STATE neighborhoods—through advocacy, education, 9 HIGH ELM 8 21 end piers. GEORGE 250 detailed inventory forms found on and collaboration. 7 COLLEGE 18 GRAND CHAPEL 6 TEMPLE 19 TOP 25 CHURCH Project Sponsors: CROWN ORANGE 91 newhavenmodern.org. MLK JR STATE Department of Economic and Community Development, OLIVE 20 Offices of Culture and Tourism LEGION 5 CHAPEL 4 2 DAVENPORT CHURCHST S WATER HOWARD The New Haven Preservation Trust CONGRESS newhavenmodern.org 3 922 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511 SARGENT 95 203-562-5919 • [email protected] UNION COLUMBUS The New Haven Preservation Trust 1 2 3 4 11 12 13 ENZO FIGUERES MICHAEL MARSLAND Community Services Building Lee High School Knights of Columbus Building Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges Dixwell Fire Station Dixwell Congregational Church 1 State Street 165 Columbus Avenue 1 Columbus Plaza 302---304 York Street 125 Goffe Street 217 Dixwell Avenue Architect: Orr, deCossey, Winder and Associates Architect: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates Architect: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates Architect: Eero Saarinen Architect: Venturi and Rauch Architect: John M. Johansen Date: 1965 Date: 1964 Date: 1967 Date: 1958---1962 Date: 1974 Date: 1967 This structure, with its stark lines and flowing This megastructure is situated on a block- A landmark structure with a scale compatible Saarinen had come to think of college The “decorated shed” is varied by the This church is an outstanding example curves, skillfully accommodates the neigh- long site, resting in a shallow bowl so that the to the highway—a drastic change for campuses as communities much like towns. building’s curved corner, which is designed of buildings constructed in the Dixwell boring intersection. The building’s industrial second floor of the building is on the same architects at that time. The corner stairtowers The public face of the complex is a curved to mirror the roadway. The entry recessed neighborhood during New Haven’s “Model façade combined with its hidden courtyard level as the surrounding streets. Cantilevered are reinforced concrete and provide the façade facing an open space that visually under a Pop Art type of cantilevered wall City” urban renewal era. It is comprised of garden heightens its distinct contrasts. walkways link these units to the streets. majority of structural support for the building. focuses on the Paine Whitney tower. turns the front façade into a giant signboard. a semicircular section and a central tower.
5 6 7 14 15 16 MICHAEL MARSLAND MICHAEL MARSLAND Temple Street Garage Crawford Manor Yale Center for British Art David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink Kline Biology Tower Becton Engineering Center 21 Temple Street 90 Park Street 1080---1104 Chapel Street 73 Sachem Street 223 Prospect Street 15 Prospect Street Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Louis I. Kahn Architect: Eero Saarinen Architect: Philip Johnson & Richard Foster Architect: Marcel Breuer Date: 1961 Date: 1965 Date: 1972---1975 Date: 1957---1958 Date: 1963 --- 1965 Date: 1968---1970 The construction expresses the excitement Constructed of vertically ribbed concrete The Center was the last major building The hockey rink is a large, roughly elliptical Built on top of Prospect Hill, the science Breuer’s use of pre-cast concrete panels, a of the automobile age by extending the blocks, the building is notable for the designed by Kahn. The large, rectangular pavilion dominated on the exterior by a buildings signaled a new period for the staple of Modernism, gives this building an garage design as a megastructure along the interplay between the rounded projections mass of the building is planned around two dramatic reinforced concrete arch which land previously known as Sachem’s Wood. impression of solidity, a visual identity which full 700-foot length of two city blocks. of the two differently-shaped balconies and interior courtyards and was developed on forms the bisecting spine of the building. When completed, the tower was the tallest readily connects the building’s façade to the the shadows they cast. a module of 20-foot square bays. building in New Haven. classrooms and laboratories within.
8 9 10 17 18 19 ENZO FIGUERES Yale University Art Gallery Art and Architecture Building Manuscript Society Beinecke Library EOC Plaza Central Fire Headquarters 1111 Chapel Street 182 York Street 344 Elm Street 121 Wall Street 200 Orange Street 952-960 Grand Avenue Architect: Louis I. Kahn Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: King Lui Wu Architect: Gordon Bunshaft Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Earl P. Carlin & Peter Millard Date: 1953 Date: 1961---1963 Date: 1962 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Date: c.1978 Date: 1961 The Chapel Street façade presents Built to house studios, classrooms, offices, This building belongs to one of Yale’s Date: 1961---1963 This small plaza is the only portion of The building is a fortress-like monument a continuous brick wall with raised and a library, the building acts as a corner- senior societies and its obdurate façade is The abstractness of the design, without Rudolph’s government center design to be built of exposed cast-in-place concrete. stringcourses expressing the floor levels. stone of Yale’s central complex, a western appropriate to its function. The only opening windows or recognizable doors, gives the completed. It illustrates on a small scale A hexagonal scheme animates the plan Contrasting is a curtain glass wall with termination to the procession of Gothic in the granite facing is a recessed bay on structure an impersonal and monumental his highly personal style, characterized by and an impressive level of refined detail is metal frame creating a geometric pattern. Revival and Modern Yale museum buildings. its side which serves as the entrance. character. its three-dimensional geometry. exhibited throughout. 2 3 4 11 12 13 ENZO FIGUERES MICHAEL MARSLAND Community Services Building Lee High School Knights of Columbus Building Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges Dixwell Fire Station Dixwell Congregational Church 1 State Street 165 Columbus Avenue 1 Columbus Plaza 302---304 York Street 125 Goffe Street 217 Dixwell Avenue Architect: Orr, deCossey, Winder and Associates Architect: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates Architect: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates Architect: Eero Saarinen Architect: Venturi and Rauch Architect: John M. Johansen Date: 1965 Date: 1964 Date: 1967 Date: 1958---1962 Date: 1974 Date: 1967 This structure, with its stark lines and flowing This megastructure is situated on a block- A landmark structure with a scale compatible Saarinen had come to think of college The “decorated shed” is varied by the This church is an outstanding example curves, skillfully accommodates the neigh- long site, resting in a shallow bowl so that the to the highway—a drastic change for campuses as communities much like towns. building’s curved corner, which is designed of buildings constructed in the Dixwell boring intersection. The building’s industrial second floor of the building is on the same architects at that time. The corner stairtowers The public face of the complex is a curved to mirror the roadway. The entry recessed neighborhood during New Haven’s “Model façade combined with its hidden courtyard level as the surrounding streets. Cantilevered are reinforced concrete and provide the façade facing an open space that visually under a Pop Art type of cantilevered wall City” urban renewal era. It is comprised of garden heightens its distinct contrasts. walkways link these units to the streets. majority of structural support for the building. focuses on the Paine Whitney tower. turns the front façade into a giant signboard. a semicircular section and a central tower.
5 6 7 14 15 16 MICHAEL MARSLAND MICHAEL MARSLAND Temple Street Garage Crawford Manor Yale Center for British Art David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink Kline Biology Tower Becton Engineering Center 21 Temple Street 90 Park Street 1080---1104 Chapel Street 73 Sachem Street 223 Prospect Street 15 Prospect Street Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Louis I. Kahn Architect: Eero Saarinen Architect: Philip Johnson & Richard Foster Architect: Marcel Breuer Date: 1961 Date: 1965 Date: 1972---1975 Date: 1957---1958 Date: 1963 --- 1965 Date: 1968---1970 The construction expresses the excitement Constructed of vertically ribbed concrete The Center was the last major building The hockey rink is a large, roughly elliptical Built on top of Prospect Hill, the science Breuer’s use of pre-cast concrete panels, a of the automobile age by extending the blocks, the building is notable for the designed by Kahn. The large, rectangular pavilion dominated on the exterior by a buildings signaled a new period for the staple of Modernism, gives this building an garage design as a megastructure along the interplay between the rounded projections mass of the building is planned around two dramatic reinforced concrete arch which land previously known as Sachem’s Wood. impression of solidity, a visual identity which full 700-foot length of two city blocks. of the two differently-shaped balconies and interior courtyards and was developed on forms the bisecting spine of the building. When completed, the tower was the tallest readily connects the building’s façade to the the shadows they cast. a module of 20-foot square bays. building in New Haven. classrooms and laboratories within.
8 9 10 17 18 19 ENZO FIGUERES Yale University Art Gallery Art and Architecture Building Manuscript Society Beinecke Library EOC Plaza Central Fire Headquarters 1111 Chapel Street 182 York Street 344 Elm Street 121 Wall Street 200 Orange Street 952-960 Grand Avenue Architect: Louis I. Kahn Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: King Lui Wu Architect: Gordon Bunshaft Architect: Paul Rudolph Architect: Earl P. Carlin & Peter Millard Date: 1953 Date: 1961---1963 Date: 1962 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Date: c.1978 Date: 1961 The Chapel Street façade presents Built to house studios, classrooms, offices, This building belongs to one of Yale’s Date: 1961---1963 This small plaza is the only portion of The building is a fortress-like monument a continuous brick wall with raised and a library, the building acts as a corner- senior societies and its obdurate façade is The abstractness of the design, without Rudolph’s government center design to be built of exposed cast-in-place concrete. stringcourses expressing the floor levels. stone of Yale’s central complex, a western appropriate to its function. The only opening windows or recognizable doors, gives the completed. It illustrates on a small scale A hexagonal scheme animates the plan Contrasting is a curtain glass wall with termination to the procession of Gothic in the granite facing is a recessed bay on structure an impersonal and monumental his highly personal style, characterized by and an impressive level of refined detail is metal frame creating a geometric pattern. Revival and Modern Yale museum buildings. its side which serves as the entrance. character. its three-dimensional geometry. exhibited throughout. 20 21 22 NEW HAVEN MODERN ARCHITECTURE Celebrating modern architecture in New Haven–the mid-century architects’ playground. CHARLOTTE HITCHCOCK ENZO FIGUERES Conte Elementary School Quinnipiac School English Shelter 15 Wooster Place 805 Quinnipiac Avenue Hillhouse Drive, East Rock Park Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architect: Perkins & Will; Architect: Robert T. & Jean Coolidge Date: 1962 Granberry, Cash, & Associates Date: 1953 The complex is composed of three Date: 1965, 1968 This is a novel Modernist design that uses rectangular pavilions surrounded by pre- Educational philosophy in the 1960s favored an abstract geometry of the triangle in steel cast concrete colonnades. The thin open teaching spaces. This is evident in the and stone. The picnic shelter’s design made post-and-lintel forms lend an airiness classrooms with glass walls and in the visual a radical departure from traditional rustic to the formal façade. flow between interior and exterior spaces. park architecture.
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Leavy Residence Logue Residence Hopkins School Fieldhouse 70 Autumn Street 8 Reservoir Street 986 Forest Road Architect: Granbery, Cash, & Associates Architect: Chester E. Bowles, Jr. Architect: Douglas Orr Date: 1967 Date: 1955 Date: 1938 This house, sitting on a concrete-walled This unusual example of a rustic Modernist Three parallel steel arches form the backbone plinth behind a flat lawn, makes a bold house in an urban setting was designed for of this building’s large interior space. The statement with crisp geometry, lack of Edward Logue, Development Administrator minimal ornamentation and abstraction of decorative trim, and glazed areas which for Mayor Richard C. Lee’s urban renewal form suggests a simplified classicism, and act as voids against solid volumes. program. an early Modernist sensibility.
FRONT COVER GREGSON PHOTO: ROBERT 1 Armstrong Rubber Company
DIXWELL 24 13 23 500 Sargent Drive
PROSPECT 14 15 Architect: Marcel Breuer & Robert F. Gatje GOFFE WHITNEY 12 SACHEM Date: 1968 WHALLEY Originally set like sculpture on a large green TOWER space, the building is organized in two ELM 22 Discover New Haven’s Mid-Century Modern 11 16 sections: a two-story research/warehouse Our Mission: To honor and preserve New Haven’s 17 GROVE 10 at the bottom and an office block elevated architectural heritage—historic building and 25 HOWE WALL architectural heritage, recorded in over ORANGE above, supported at the sides by massive YORK CHAPEL PARK STATE neighborhoods—through advocacy, education, 9 HIGH ELM 8 21 end piers. GEORGE 250 detailed inventory forms found on and collaboration. 7 COLLEGE 18 GRAND CHAPEL 6 TEMPLE 19 TOP 25 CHURCH Project Sponsors: CROWN ORANGE 91 newhavenmodern.org. MLK JR STATE Department of Economic and Community Development, OLIVE 20 Offices of Culture and Tourism LEGION 5 CHAPEL 4 2 DAVENPORT CHURCHST S WATER HOWARD The New Haven Preservation Trust CONGRESS newhavenmodern.org 3 922 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511 SARGENT 95 203-562-5919 • [email protected] UNION COLUMBUS The New Haven Preservation Trust 1