Lanman-Wright Hall is the building that serves as freshman housing for students in Pierson College and Saybrook College at Yale University. It is physically located at the junction of Elm and High Streets at the corner of Old Campus.
It was built as Wright Hall in 1912, replacing the examination and reading rooms of the 1851-1853 Alumni Hall, and named for Henry Parks Wright, a professor of Latin and the first Dean of Yale College (1884-1909), wh...
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Lanman-Wright Hall is the building that serves as freshman housing for students in Pierson College and Saybrook College at Yale University. It is physically located at the junction of Elm and High Streets at the corner of Old Campus.
It was built as Wright Hall in 1912, replacing the examination and reading rooms of the 1851-1853 Alumni Hall, and named for Henry Parks Wright, a professor of Latin and the first Dean of Yale College (1884-1909), who had advocated increasing dormitory space. It was one of the last buildings added to the Old Campus, and serves as a dormitory and as the home of Yale Station's mail boxes. It was designed by William Adams Delano and his partner Chester Holmes Aldrich, who designed and built several other buildings at Yale over a period of twenty years, including William L. Harkness Hall, Sterling Chemistry Lab, and the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle.
The building was renamed Lanman-Wright Hall after Col. William K. Lanman, Jr. donated funds necessary for its...
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