A century’s worth of colleges

Mark Zurolo, ’01MFA. Source: Buildings and Grounds of Yale University.

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In June, Yale announced that it had raised enough money to begin building two new residential colleges, the first new colleges in more than 50 years. (For more, see “Construction to Start on New Colleges.”) The map at left shows the locations of the existing colleges and the new ones and indicates when they were built. When the residential college system was adopted in 1933, some existing dormitories were retrofitted to become Branford, Saybrook, Trumbull, and Jonathan Edwards Colleges. The others were designed and built as colleges from the beginning, although Silliman College also incorporated some existing dormitories.

1. Branford & Saybrook, 1921

2. Trumbull, 1929

3. Calhoun, 1932

4. Jonathan Edwards, 1932

5. Davenport, 1933

6. Pierson, 1933

7. Berkeley, 1934

8. Timothy Dwight, 1935

9. Silliman, 1940

10. Ezra Stiles & Morse, 1962

11. new colleges, 2017