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Connecticut Hall, the Glossary

Connecticut Hall (formerly South Middle College) is a Georgian building on the Old Campus of Yale University.^[1]

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Residential buildings completed in 1752
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Yale University buildings

Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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American colonial architecture

American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Buttery (room)

A buttery was originally a large cellar room under a monastery, in which food and drink were stored for the provisioning of strangers and passing guests.

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Colonial colleges

The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the founding of the United States of America during the American Revolution.

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Computer cluster

A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system.

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Congregationalism

Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Connecticut Colony

The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.

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Connecticut General Assembly

The Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Cotton gin

A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

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David Humphreys (soldier)

David Humphreys (July 10, 1752 – February 21, 1818) was an American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, a secretary and intelligence agent for Benjamin Franklin in Paris, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America, and member of the Connecticut state legislature.

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Douglas Orr

Douglas William Orr (March 25, 1892 – July 29, 1966) was an American architect based in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney Jr. (December 8, 1765January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

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Frederick S. Jones

Frederick Scheetz Jones (April 7, 1862 – January 14, 1944) was an American university professor, dean, and college football coach.

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Gambrel

A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Grosvenor Atterbury

Grosvenor Atterbury (July 7, 1869 in Detroit, MI – October 18, 1956 in Southampton, NY) was an American architect, urban planner and writer.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Henry Walcott Farnam

Henry Walcott Farnam (November 6, 1853 – September 5, 1933) was an American economist.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Horace Bushnell

Horace Bushnell (April 14, 1802February 17, 1876) was an American Congregational minister and theologian.

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Interchangeable parts

Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are identical for practical purposes.

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James Hillhouse

James Hillhouse (October 20, 1754 – December 29, 1832) was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut.

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James Kent (jurist)

James Kent (July 31, 1763 – December 12, 1847) was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College.

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Jeremiah Mason

Jeremiah Mason (April 27, 1768 – October 14, 1848) was a United States senator from New Hampshire.

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John William Sterling

John William Sterling (May 12, 1844 – July 5, 1918) was a founding partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP and major benefactor to Yale University.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut

This article describes National Historic Landmarks in the United States state of Connecticut. Connecticut Hall and List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut are National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut.

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List of presidents of Yale University

Yale University was founded in 1701 as a school for Congregationalist ministers.

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Massachusetts Hall (Harvard University)

Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the British colonies in America, and second oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building at the College of William & Mary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Hall

Also known as Connecticut Hall (Yale University), Old South Middle.

Connecticut Hall, the Glossary

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Residential buildings completed in 1752

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

Yale University buildings

References