Hendrie Hall

Hendrie Hall opened in 1894 as the new home of the Yale Law School — replacing cramped space on the Old Campus — and immediately signaled that Yale would treat the “professional schools” as major architectural citizens in their own right. When the Law School moved to its Sterling Quadrangle home in the 1930s, Hendrie was repurposed repeatedly: for years it was one of the major rehearsal / practice homes for the School of Music, the Yale Symphony, and a whole ecology of undergraduate performing arts groups. A major renovation and expansion in the 2010s integrated Hendrie into the Adams Center for Musical Arts, unifying it with Leigh Hall and tying it back into the post-1900 “music belt” of College Street. It is one of the most important “continuity” buildings on that block — still doing what it started doing 90 years ago: wholehearted musical rehearsal and creative production.