The completed conversion of the ground floor from commercial to academic spaces serves as the new home for a portion of Yale Humanities. The departmental offices for administration and research occupy the renovated upper floors of the building, while the transformation of the street level façade and creation of a landscaped public terrace at the rear provide new seminar and study spaces and a dynamic new civic and academic locus on the perimeter of the Yale campus.

This mixed-used redevelopment includes careful restoration of the antique masonry 1880’s row houses, complemented by sensitively scaled modern masonry and glass additions framing the public terrace at the rear. By simplifying the original changes in level and clarifying the sequence of interior spaces, the building is now fully accessible and operating as a cohesive whole. The building responds to Yale’s vision for the future of the campus community by successfully re-engaging this vital link between the street life of the city and the courtyard life of the interior block.