New Haven Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Louis' Lunch

  Louis Lassen's small lunch wagon of 1895 grew into Louis' Lunch, the hamburger restaurant that claims to be the first to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It began as a small lunch wagon in 1895 when Louis Lassen opened it, and was one of the first places in the U.S. to serve steak sandwiches.

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  Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

  Ahead of you rises the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This is the rare book library and literary archive of Yale University Library in New Haven, and one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts, housing one of the largest collections of such texts.

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  Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

  Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana — Frank Pepe's, or simply Pepe's — opened at 163 Wooster Street in 1925 as the originator of New Haven-style pizza, and its flagship is in front of you. Opened in 1925, it is one of the oldest and best known pizzerias in the United States.

• Hotel Marcel

  Notice the nine-story Brutalist tower ahead: architect Marcel Breuer designed this building as the Armstrong Rubber Company headquarters, later known for its Pirelli Tire name, in New Haven's Long Wharf district. Designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer in the Brutalist style, it originally functioned as office headquarters for the Armstrong Rubber Company, with a two-story base used for research and development and a five-story upper section of offices.

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  Yale Center for British Art

  Matte steel and reflective glass clad the Yale Center for British Art at the corner of York and Chapel Streets. This building houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.

All 31 stops

• Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven)

  Your next stop is Long Wharf Theatre, founded in 1965 as a pioneer of the not-for-profit regional theatre movement.

• Hotel Marcel (Long Wharf)

  Notice the nine-story Brutalist tower ahead: architect Marcel Breuer designed this building as the Armstrong Rubber Company headquarters, later known for its Pirelli Tire name…

• Chapel Street Historic District (Downtown New Haven)

  Brick facades line the Chapel Street Historic District, a 23-acre slice of Downtown New Haven listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984…

• Ninth Square Historic District (Ninth Square)

  Church, Court, State, and Crown Streets bound the Ninth Square Historic District, a lively, well-preserved slice of Downtown New Haven.

• Union and New Haven Trust Building (New Haven Green)

  At 205 Church Street, on the northeast corner of the New Haven Green where Elm and Church meet, rises the former Union and New Haven…

• New Haven Green (Downtown New Haven)

  Picture the original Puritan colonists laying out this 16-acre square, the central piece of their nine-square settlement plan designed by colonist John Brockett.

• Trinity Church on the Green (New Haven Green)

  Trinity Church on the Green, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, was designed by Ithiel Town in 1813 and consecrated in 1816, the…

• Christ Church (Downtown New Haven)

  Christ Church, at 70 Broadway, is an Episcopal parish completed in 1898 to Henry Vaughan's design as an Anglo-Catholic offshoot of Trinity Church on the…

• Louis' Lunch (New Haven)

  Louis Lassen's small lunch wagon of 1895 grew into Louis' Lunch, the hamburger restaurant that claims to be the first to serve hamburgers and the…

• Yale Center for British Art (central New Haven)

  Matte steel and reflective glass clad the Yale Center for British Art at the corner of York and Chapel Streets.

• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Hewitt Quadrangle)

  Ahead of you rises the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

• Sterling Memorial Library (Yale University campus)

  Sterling Memorial Library, the main building of the Yale University Library system, opened in 1931 as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus.

• Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven)

  George Peabody founded the Yale Peabody Museum in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, and at 170 Whitney Avenue it ranks…

• Old Campus (New Haven)

  Fourteen buildings ring the four-acre courtyard of the Old Campus, the oldest area of Yale University's campus in New Haven, Connecticut.

• Connecticut Hall (Old Campus)

  Connecticut Hall, the Georgian building on Yale's Old Campus, was completed in 1752 as a student dormitory.

• Woolsey Hall (Hewitt Quadrangle)

  On Hewitt Quadrangle, Woolsey Hall serves as Yale's primary auditorium, designed by Carrère and Hastings for the university's bicentennial celebration in 1901.

• Harkness Tower (Yale University)

  Harkness Tower, the masonry tower rising above you, anchors the Collegiate Gothic Memorial Quadrangle that Yale completed in 1922.

• Battell Chapel (Old Campus)

  Your gaze meets Battell Chapel, the largest chapel of Yale University, rising on the Old Campus.

• Grove Street Cemetery (Yale University campus)

  Grove Street Cemetery, also called Grove Street Burial Ground, is a quiet clump of history surrounded by the Yale University campus, and the world's first…

• Hillhouse Avenue (Hillhouse Avenue Historic District)

  Charles Dickens and Mark Twain both called Hillhouse Avenue the most beautiful street in America, and its nineteenth-century mansions and the Yale president's house stretch…

• James Dwight Dana House (Hillhouse Avenue)

  Henry Austin, the New Haven architect, designed the Italianate house at 24 Hillhouse Avenue that you see here, long the home of Yale geology professor…

• Marsh Hall (Prospect Hill)

  Perched on Prospect Hill, Marsh Hall is the Othniel C. Marsh House, a red sandstone brownstone by J. Cleaveland Cady.

• Marsh Botanical Garden (New Haven)

  Othniel Charles Marsh's 1899 bequest of his estate and plant collections created the Marsh Botanical Garden at 265 Mansfield Street, where you are now.

• Betts House (Prospect Hill)

  Completed in 1868 by architect Henry Austin, the Betts House — also known as the John M. Davies House or Davies Mansion — is a…

• Ingalls Rink (New Haven)

  Eero Saarinen designed David S. Ingalls Rink, the hockey rink Yale built between 1953 and 1958, and its unmistakable Whale profile is in front of…

• Edgerton (New Haven–Hamden)

  Where New Haven meets Hamden on Whitney Avenue, Edgerton Park keeps the grounds of the Frederick F. Brewster Estate.

• East Rock Park (New Haven)

  East Rock Park, 427 acres of naturalistic landscaping shared by New Haven and the town of Hamden, surrounds the mountainous ridge named East Rock.

• Soldiers and Sailors Monument (New Haven) (East Rock)

  Crowning East Rock's 366-foot summit, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument of 1887 honors New Haven residents who died in the Revolutionary War, the War of…

• Wooster Square (Wooster Square)

  David Wooster, the American Revolutionary War hero, gives his name to this park square at the center of Wooster Square, the neighborhood known as Little…

• Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (Wooster Square)

  Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana — Frank Pepe's, or simply Pepe's — opened at 163 Wooster Street in 1925 as the originator of New Haven-style pizza…

• Modern Apizza (East Rock)

  Modern Apizza, the American pizza restaurant founded in 1934 as State Street Apizza, has never left this spot on State Street in the East Rock…

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