The John Pierpont House/Yale University Visitor's Center

The John Pierpont House, currently the Yale University Visitor Center, is the oldest building currently standing in New Haven. It was built in 1767 and is one of the three beautiful Georgian houses that sits on the north side of Elm Street. It has served as a residential building, a hospital during the revolutionary war, a faculty lounge and the Yale undergraduate admissions office. Its complex architectural structure testifies for the history it has gone through, yet its simplistic façade upholds the ideal urban lifestyle and values of historic New Haven.