Asian American Cultural Center

An elegant example of a common housing type in New Haven: "twin," or attached row houses, made of brick and rendered with Italianate details like an elaborate entrance porch and prominent brackets that accentuate the cornice. 295 Crown has belonged to Yale since 1956, and between 1960 and 1965 the building was home to Yale's City Planning Department (which was shuddered by President Kingman Brewster in 1969). Since 1989, the Asian American Cultural Center at Yale has called the building home.