Decosta Playground

Decosta Playground is a park in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Decosta Playground is situated nearby to the neighborhood Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District, as well as near the suburb Dixwell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Library

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

Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church

Church

Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ is a historic church at 217 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1820 as the African Ecclesiastical Society, the congregation has been a major part of African-American society in the city since then.

Ingalls Rink

Sports venue

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

David S. Ingalls Rink is a hockey rink in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1958 for Yale University.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District and Dixwell.

Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Emporostheoros, Public domain.

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Dixwell

Suburb

Dixwell is a neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Named for Dixwell Avenue, the main thoroughfare of the neighborhood which in turn was named for regicide judge John Dixwell, it is situated generally northwest of and adjacent to Downtown New Haven.

Newhallville

Neighborhood

Newhallville is a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, named for industrialist George Newhall. As delineated on city planning maps, Newhallville is bordered on the north by the town of Hamden, on the east by Winchester Avenue, on the south by Munson Street, on the southwest by Crescent Street, and on the northwest by Fournier Street.

Decosta Playground

Type: Park
Location: South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.32149° or 41° 19′ 17″ north

Longitude

-72.93205° or 72° 55′ 55″ west

Elevation

56 feet (17 metres)

Open location code

87H983C9+H5

GeoNames ID

4832623

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