Hewitt University Quadrangle (until 1917, University Court; informally, Hewitt Quadrangle or Beinecke Plaza) is a plaza at the center of the Yale University campus which is the home of the administrative buildings. Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

The Bicentennial Buildings (University Commons, Woolsey Hall, and the Memorial Rotunda) were the first buildings constructed for Yale University as opposed to one of its constituent entities (Yale College, Sheffield Scientific School, or others), reflecting a greater emphasis on central administration initiated by Presidents Timothy Dwight and Arthur Twining Hadley. Constructed in 1901-2 for the University's bicentennial, the limestone Beaux-Arts buildings linked the College buildings on the Old Campus with the Sheffield Scientific buildings on Hillhouse Avenue. They were designed by John M. Carrère and Thomas Hastings. Timothy Dwight V (1828 - 1916) was President of Yale University from 1886 through 1899. ... Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930) was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... ... The Old Campus is the complex of buildings at Yale University that houses incoming freshmen from 10 out of 12 Yales residential colleges. ... The Sheffield Scientific School was founded as Yale Scientific School in 1854 and renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

The Commons is the building in which freshmen take their meals: it replaced a timber-trussed banqueting hall. Woolsey Hall was the University's first secular large assembly hall, with 2,691 seats. The Rotunda, with tablets on the walls commemorating Yale's war dead is a double-sized, domed, colonnaded version of Bramante's Tempietto built in 1502 on the site of St. Peter's martyrdom in Rome. Before the colonade of the Commons is a memorial cenotaph. Donato Bramante Donato Bramante (1444 - March 11, 1514), Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. ... The Cenotaph, London A ceremony at the Cenotaph, London, on Sunday 12th June 2005, remembering Irish war dead Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima, Japan A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. ...

Woodbridge Hall, located on the west side of the plaza was designed by the firm of Howells & Stokes (John Mead Howells and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes).

The visible portion of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on the east side of the plaza, designed by Gordon Bunshaft, is like the visible portion of an iceberg: most of the library is underground. A pit, not accessible from the plaza, contains Isamu Noguchi's sculptures. Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. ... Isamu Noguchi, 1941. ...

Beinecke Plaza has been the site of rallies and protests including a recreation of a Soweto shanty, which was burned in protest, and the Claes Oldenburg "Lipstick Ascending on a Caterpillar Tread" (now in Morse College), given to the University by the Colossal Keepsake Corporation. Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version by Claes Oldenburg 1966, acryllic and pencil on foam-filled canvas with wood, cord, and plaster. ...

References

• The Campus Guide: Yale University, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, Patrick Pinnell