Steinbach Hall, also known as the John Pitkin Norton House, is a historic building on the campus of

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, U.S..

History

The house was built in 1848–49 as a private residence for

John Pitkin Norton John Pitkin Norton (July 19, 1822 – September 5, 1852) was an educator, agricultural chemist, and author. Biography Norton was born in Albany, New York, in 1822, where his father John Treadwell Norton, a successful farmer and engineer, owned a ...

, a science professor at Yale University. It was purchased by Yale University in 1923. It was home to the

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until 2015, when the Department of Astronomy moved into the building.

Architectural significance

The house was designed by architect Henry Austin as an Italian villa. It includes "flat and semicircular arch motifs in window openings, bracketed cornices, and recessed front entry behind arcade with semicircular arches." It was "remodelled" by architect

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in 1979. It has been listed on the

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as a contributing property to the Hillhouse Avenue Historic District since September 13, 1985.

References

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