Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, named for scientist and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and contains buildings constructed as early as 1901.
Byers Hall and Vanderbilt Hall, then part of the Sheffield Scientific School, now Silliman's main facade.
The Noah Webster House, on the corner of Grove St and Temple St, before its removal
House of the Silliman Master, a Georgian Revival design by Otto Eggers
Courtyard of Silliman College
Residential colleges of Yale University
Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated. Inaugurated in 1933, the college system is considered the defining feature of undergraduate life at Yale College, and the residential colleges serve as the residence halls and social hubs for most undergraduates. Construction and programming for eight of the original ten colleges were funded by educational philanthropist Edward S. Harkness. Yale was, along with Harvard, one of the first universities in the United States to establish a residential college system.
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges
The Memorial Quadrangle, completed in 1920, was the colleges' residential template.
Edward Harkness, who funded the construction of eight colleges in 1930
The Berkeley Oval, a student dormitory torn down for Berkeley College
