Saybrook College

Saybrook College was established in 1933 as part of Yale’s original residential college system and takes its name from Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where the early “Collegiate School” was located before moving to New Haven. Its buildings originated as part of the Memorial Quadrangle, a Gothic complex designed by James Gamble Rogers between 1917 and 1922 and later reconfigured into Saybrook and Branford Colleges when Edward Harkness funded Yale’s residential college system. Saybrook’s two main courtyards—Killingworth Court and Saybrook Court—honor Yale’s earliest homes and contain millstones from those historic towns, along with detailed stone carvings, heraldic shields, and stained-glass panes by G. Owen Bonawit. The college is anchored by Wrexham Tower, modeled after the church tower in Wales where Elihu Yale is buried and built with a stone sent from St. Giles’ Church. Renovated in 2000–2001, Saybrook today remains one of Yale’s most architecturally rich colleges.