Street Hall is a historic building on

Old Campus The Old Campus is the oldest area of the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the principal residence of Yale College freshmen and also contains offices for the academic departments of Classics, English, History, Comparative L ...

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. It housed the first collegiate art school in the United States, a gift from Augustus Russell Street, a native of

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and graduate of the Class of 1812, to Yale for the establishment its School of Fine Arts. It was designed by Peter Bonnett Wight in 1864. Street Hall is described as a "beacon of Yale's then-nascent engagement with New Haven" due to Augustus Russell Street's request that the building have entrances facing both

and the city sidewalk. When the renovation is complete, visitors will be able to enter it from the

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. The Art Gallery plans to expand across the bridge over High Street into Street Hall. The building's facade is characterized by restless, asymmetrical

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, and a combination of dark and light stones. The building is the final resting place of

John Trumbull John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843) was an American painter and military officer best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary War, of which he was a veteran. He has been called the "Painter of the Revolut ...

, the famed American painter.

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