91 Trumbull St, New Haven, CT 06510
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Yale's Office of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies resides in a building with rich architectural history tied to the student culture and social influence of the university. The building was commissioned and built in 1884 for the Wolf's Head Senior Society, a group established to challenge the exclusive secret society culture at Yale. The building's standout, deliberately bold architecture --a figurehead of the Richardson Romanesque style designed by McKim, Mead & White Architects-- symbolizes the ambitious intents of its commissioners to drive change in the Yale student experience. After being sold to Yale in 1924 and rented out or used for various university-adjacent groups and institutional functions since, the building's standout design and foreboding presence have become integrated into the University's architectural heritage, today more reflective of the institution's storied and elite image than critical of it.
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