Beinecke Plaza

Detail, colonnade of University Commons (now the Schwarzman Center); Hewitt University Quadrangle, commonly known as Beinecke Plaza, was known as University Court until 1917. The Bicentennial Buildings (University Commons, the Memorial Rotunda, and Woolsey Hall) were the first buildings constructed for Yale University central administration, as opposed to the colleges or other constituent schools. Constructed in 1901-2 for the University's bicentennial, the limestone Beaux-Arts buildings were designed by John M. Carrère and Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings. The Memorial Rotunda (dedicated to Yale's war dead) is based on Bramante's Tempietto. It is the entrance to Woolsey auditorium ( 2,691 seats) which has one of the largest organs in the world, the Newberry Memorial Organ. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/4/2015