Elm City Vineyard

The present home of Elm City Vineyard — 425 College Street — is one of the long-standing 19th-century sacred buildings in the “south of Old Campus” belt: it was built in the 1840s–1850s when New Haven (and Yale) went from a Green-anchored town to a little city with new, purpose-built denominational sanctuaries. Over 170+ years it has gone through multiple denominational chapters (Methodist, then mainline / ecumenical uses), always remaining a worship building and always remaining in the heart of Yale’s daily pedestrian life. In the 2000s it became host to a new wave of campus-adjacent ministries and congregations — including Elm City Vineyard — making it one of the very few buildings in the Yale perimeter that has basically never not been a church. Today it functions as a mixed “parish / campus commons” node.