Old Peabody Museum, 1876-1917
The first Peabody Museum stood at Elm and High Streets, on the corner that is now occupied by Saybrook College. Designed by J. Cleveland Cady, the architect of many Victorian Yale buildings, the Museum housed fossil footprints, the University's mineralogical collection, and exhibits on geology and zoology. But unlike its successor, this building had no room for a 65-foot-long apatosaurus skeleton.