A Spooky Stop on the Beinecke Area Walking Tour - The Grove Street Cemetery
BEINECKE AREA WALKING TOUR
The Beinecke Area Walking Tour focuses on Yale University’s Hewitt Quadrangle – more commonly known as Beinecke Plaza – and the artistic and cultural sites in the surrounding area.The tour begins at the corner of College and Grove Streets with Memorial Hall, a tribute to members of the Yale community who have died in battle.Memorial Hall is also the main entranceway to the next stop on our tour, Woolsey Hall, a 3,000 seat recital hall that serves as Yale’s primary auditorium.The tour continues down College Street, past the tomb of the Scroll and Key secret society and Yale School of Music’s Sprague Hall.We will then head down Wall Street, where we will explore the riches of Beinecke Plaza:Woodbridge Hall; Alexander Calder’s sculpture, Gallows and Lollipops; The Commons dining hall; the World War I Cenotaph, which is a tribute to Yale men who died in World War I; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; and Isamu Noguchi’s The Garden.We will then continue down Wall Street, past the Sterling Law Building of Yale Law School, to York Street where we will visit the famed social club Mory’s and the famous (and occasionally infamous) Toad’s Place.After that, the tour will take us to the Yale College Dramatic Association’s message board at the corner of Elm and High Streets.We will then walk up High Street, where we will see Yale’s largest library, Sterling Memorial Library, and Maya Lin’s Women’s Table, which commemorates women at Yale.Next, we will see the tomb of the Book and Snake secret society, at the corner of High and Grove Streets.We will end our tour with a visit to the Grove Street Cemetery, the oldest chartered burial ground in the United States and the final resting place of inventor Eli Whitney, dictionary pioneer Noah Webster, and many others.
Although many of the stops on the Beinecke Area Tour are part of the Yale campus, this area of New Haven is an example of how Yale’s facilities and architecture are integral to the city as a whole.The tour guide, Steve Rosenberg, is a Connecticut native and an attorney who practices with the law firm of Murtha Cullina LLP in New Haven.
The audio files for this tour are a .zip file, please be sure to download the entire folder so you have all of the .mp3 tracks to complete the tour. If you do not have a way to unzip the files, please download a free trial of WinZip by going to: http://www.winzip.com/index.htm
Please download the .pdf file to the right, along with the audio files. This document contains a map, photos of the stops and key points for each of the locations you will see.
