55 Park Street

Built in 2009, 55 Park Street is a laboratory and office building, providing support mainly for the nearby Smilow Cancer Hospital, which is a part of Yale-New Haven Hospital. The whole of this immediate area is medical buildings—Yale-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital, etc. 55 Park is striking, with a mostly glass exterior of multicolored panels, in the Internationalist style. It looks almost like a patchwork quilt. Occupied mostly by office buildings on its upper levels, it includes a Walgreen on the bottom floor. The block used to be taken up by a series of residential row houses, owned by various New Haven residents.

This building has had only one tenant, Yale-New Haven Health Systeml. But 55 Park Street now takes up what was once 55 Park St, 61 Park Street, 67 Park Street, and 73 Park Street. In 1911, these addresses were all homes owned by John McPartland, Levi Lyons, Margaret O’Brien, and Francis Atwater, respectively. They were built sometime before 1886. 55 Park Street was passed down through the McPartland family, including members Charles and AJ, and seems to have been occasionally rented to students.

55 Park Street, before 2009, was home to a residential building that was, for most of its history, owned by the McPartland family. It was passed down through that family for most of its time, and occasionally was rented to Yale students. There were other homes on the plot as well, which were also knocked down to make room for this large laboratory building. In fact, 55 Park Street now takes up what was once 55 Park St, 61 Park Street, 67 Park Street, and 73 Park Street. In 1911, these addresses were all homes owned by John McPartland, Levi Lyons, Margaret O’Brien, and Francis Atwater, respectively.

The current structure at 55 Park Street, built in 2009, has only had one tenant, which is the Yale-New Haven hospital and a Walgreens that is downstairs. 55 Park Street serves to support Yale-New Haven hospital and specifically the Smilow Cancer Hospital, which was also built in 2009.[1] The Smilow Cancer Hospital is affiliated with Yale Cancer Center, which is the only Comprehensive Cancer Center in southern New England and is one of 41 in the US. Comprehensive Cancer Centers comprise about the top 4% of cancer centers in the US. Yale-New Haven Hospital has been a part of the New Haven community since 1826. The hospital formally became a part of Yale in 1913, formally educating Yale medical students.