Weir Hall

Weir Hall (66 High Street) is visible as a building of brownstone set back from High Street between Skull and Bones and Jonathon Edwards College. It is in the gothic style. An outdoor path running through the building leads up to Weir Court, the building’s courtyard that has been appropriated as the university’s sculpture garden.

In 1912 George Douglas Miller set out to build a dormitory for Skull and Bones, but quickly ran out of money (2). After 1914, it lay abandoned for ten years until Yale’s architecture department made use of it. Today, the building is part of Jonathon Edwards College taking on the roles of dormitory, library and dining hall kitchen. Included in the building are the towers of (the now demolished) Old Alumni Hall (2). Originally built in 1851, they make up the third oldest structure on Yale’s campus (1).