#new haven

[marinolta]

sewing box bits

[macbookamateur]

I love Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo), so when my Boston accommodation fell through at the last minute I booked a room in New Haven and took pictures of every significant secret society house mentioned in the book, plus some bonus locations. Enjoy!

Starting off strong with St Elmo (how far they've fallen):

Then we have Manuscript! Took me embarrassingly long to find, peep the circle of bricks on the wall:

Then Wolf's Head (which I think was Leigh's society if memory serves?), very walled and difficult to photograph:

Now Skull and Bones:

Next up we have Book and Snake (opposite the graveyard which features a lot in the book too), with some fence detail. Hopefully the cars give an idea of scale but my GOD some of these buildings are massive, and there's no sign of any windows or even ventilation except that front door. But yeah Book and Snake:

And now we have Scroll and Key, also massive and mausoleum-like:

Last of the main ones, here's Berzelius:

And now a little bonus, Rosenfeld Hall (which used to be St Elmo):

And also the Hutch! I think it's the top single attic window:

FAQs

Could you have found out what these looked like online? Yes!

Did you know that before you did this? No! I didn't think it through I just got excited!

How did you navigate New Haven? Using only the map in the front of the book for some godforsaken reason. It worked though.

Do you have more pictures? Yes! Of the graveyard and of the Sterling Library, with as many parts of the Gauntlet as I could remember, plus some other cool buildings.

[faithandarisadventures]

Brutalist Stairwell Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT March 22, 2025

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Scarlet Rivera & Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue—New Haven, CT, November 13, 1975 © Ken Regan.

[archiveofaffinities]

Kentucky Fried Chicken, Whalley Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut, 1983

[weather-pics-and-stuff]

December 4, Weather History Today ❄️

New Haven, Connecticut, received 20 inches of snow in the first of two major snowstorms that December – 1786

[orbitaltheatre]

The unbuilt Manager's Office for the Temple Street Garage in New Haven, Connecticut

Designed by architect Paul Rudolph (1961)

[blondebrainpowered]

“Mirror Image, Peace Demonstration, New Haven, 1970” as “the architecture of social protest formed by mirror, landscape and young people on different sides of the coin.”

Photographer: © Burk Uzzle/courtesy of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill