Welch Hall (Yale University)

Harmanus Welch Hall is a freshman dormitory at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

[2] Welch Hall faces College Street and the New Haven Green on one side and the interior of Yale's Old Campus on the other.

In 1976, the building underwent a major renovation led by architect Herbert S. Newman and funded by John Hay Whitney, a 1926 graduate of Yale College.

It is considered among Yale students to be one of the more desirable freshman residence halls because it has many single bedrooms, large common rooms, and internal emergency exit doors without alarms, allowing residents to move freely between different parts of the building without having to go outside or through the basement.

On the building's fourth and fifth floors are the coveted female-only "Princess Suites," which feature two-story common areas, skylights, and spacious bedrooms.

Welch Hall viewed from Old Campus, early winter 2006.
Welch Hall circa 1895. From Yale Yarns: Sketches of Life at Yale University by John Seymour Wood. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1895.)