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South Central Connecticut Planning Region

Hillhouse Avenue

Hillhouse Avenue is a street in New Haven, Connecticut, famous for its many nineteenth century mansions, including the president's house at Yale University.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments.

Library
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The is the rare book library and literary archive of Yale University Library in . 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.

Museum
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The Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, a division of the Yale School of Music, is a museum in New Haven, . It was established in 1900 by a gift of historic keyboard instruments from Morris Steinert, and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by the acquisition of the Belle Skinner and Emil Herrmann collections.

Sports venue
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
David S. is a hockey rink in , designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1958 for Yale University.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elm Street Historic District and Orange Street Historic District.

Neighborhood
is a state historic district in the area of , . The area is eligible for listing, but not yet listed, on the National Register of Historic Places.

Neighborhood
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The encompasses a large residential in the East Rock section of . Roughly bounded by Orange, Cottage, Eagle, State, and Audubon Streets, this area saw growth between about 1830 and 1900, and includes a broad diversity of well-preserved 19th-century residential structures.

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is a city in the U.S. state of . It is located on on the northern shore of . With a population of 134,023 at the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in Connecticut and the largest in the , with the metropolitan area having an estimated 577,000 residents.

Hillhouse Avenue

Latitude
41.31466° or 41° 18′ 53″ north
Longitude
-72.92295° or 72° 55′ 23″ west
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Open location code
87H9837G+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 777642213
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
4836121
Wiki­data ID
Q5763168
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In Other Languages

“Hillhouse Avenue” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “高瓴大道”

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