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Prospect Hill is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut located in the north central portion of the city, directly north of Downtown New Haven. The neighborhood contains residences, institutional buildings of Albertus Magnus University and a portion of the main campus of Yale University, including the Science Hill area, the Hillhouse Avenue area and the Yale Peabody Museum. The City of New Haven defines the neighborhood to be the region bounded by the town of Hamden in the north, Winchester Avenue in the west, Munson Street/Hillside Place/Prospect Street in the southwest, Trumbull Street in the south, and Whitney Avenue in the east. Prospect Street is the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood. ==Historic district== (詳細はhistoric district that is significant primarily for its architecture. It encompasses most of the residential portion of the Prospect Hill neighborhood. The historic district includes major collections of Queen Anne architecture, Shingle Style architecture, Colonial Revival architecture, and Tudor Revival architecture. Numerous other styles are also represented.〔 and (''Accompanying 12 photos, from 2002 (photo captions at page 79 of text document)'' )〕 Some of the more significant properties which are included in the neighborhood are: *The John M. Davies House, an 1868 mansion designed by Henry Austin, now known as Betts House and home to Yale University's international initiatives. *The Othniel C. Marsh House, home of prominent 19th-century paleontologist (designated a National Historic Landmark), a earliest building of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies *Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington St., home of the first agricultural experiment station in Connecticut (also designated as a National Historic Landmark) *Silk House, Colonial Revival, c. 1915, at 75 Autumn Street, designed by architects Brown & VanBeren〔 *Celentano Public School, 370 Canner Street, Victoria, originally built as Yale's first observatory〔 *237 East Rock Road, Colonial Revival with Federal details, c. 1910, former home of Yale University president A. Whitney Griswold〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prospect Hill, New Haven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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