Davenport College
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Davenport College is one of the fourteen residential colleges of Yale University. Its buildings were completed in 1933 mainly in the Georgian style but with a gothic façade along York Street. The coll
York Street's gothic façade
Upper Courtyard viewed from the Crosspiece. Harkness Tower can be seen in the background
Davenport College, Upper Courtyard viewed from York St. Gate.
Welch Hall circa 1895. Until 2024, Davenport freshmen lived in Welch. From Yale Yarns: Sketches of Life at Yale University by John Seymour Wood. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1895.)
John Davenport (minister)
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John Davenport was an English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven.
Davenport College
…University. Its buildings were completed in 1933 mainly in the Georgian style but with a gothic façade along York Street. The college was named for John Davenport, who founded Yale's home city of New Haven, Connecticut. An extensive renovation of the college's buildings occurred during the 2004–2005 academic year…
Portrait of John Davenport, 1670. Yale University Art Gallery
Cenotaph for Davenport and John Cotton.
John Davenport puritan