About the NHBA
The New Haven Building Archive (NHBA) is a digital, mobile, and interactive guide to New Haven's architectural legacy and cultural heritage. As a digital database for local buildings, the NHBA harnesses digital mapping technologies, place-based storytelling, and community-based research.
Ultimately, the development of the NHBA is intended to aid in the co-production of knowledge about the city by students, researchers, and local residents in a way that will facilitate conversations about the historical patterns and future development of New Haven while suggesting a model for engaged teaching and research for urban studies more broadly.
Our project goals
- Create a comprehensive digital archive of New Haven's architectural heritage
- Facilitate community engagement and knowledge sharing about local buildings
- Support academic research and teaching in urban studies and architecture
- Enable place-based storytelling through interactive mapping technologies
- Promote conversations about historical patterns and future development
This archive is brought to you by the Yale Urban Media Project. YUMP is a New Haven-based collective promoting public scholarship and events surrounding the built environment, city planning, local history, and urban change. YUMP publishes faculty and student projects, ranging from public art installations to creative newsprints. To learn more, go to yump.yale.edu.
For questions or inquiries, please contact yump@yale.edu.
A large portion of the research in the archive is brought together by undergraduate students who take the class American Architecture and Urbanism, offered yearly and taught by Elihu Rubin, Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Yale University. Over a semester, students are taught how to research buildings and social histories by working with local archives and libraries. For those interested, Elihu's lectures and research workshops are open to the public, therefore anyone may attend and engage in the collective project of piecing together New Haven history. For more information, contact elihu.rubin@yale.edu.
Website designed by Daniel Morales (YC '27) and Brianna Magtoto (YC '28), in collaboration with Estella Dieci (YSoA M.E.D. '26) and Vivian Wang (YC '27).