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===Notable nonresidential campus buildings=== [[File:Harkness Tower in autumn.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Harkness Tower]] Notable nonresidential campus buildings and landmarks include [[Battell Chapel]], [[Beinecke Rare Book Library]], [[Harkness Tower]], [[Humanities Quadrangle]], [[Ingalls Rink]], Kline Biology Tower, [[Osborne Memorial Laboratories]], [[Payne Whitney Gymnasium]], [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]], Sterling Hall of Medicine, [[Sterling Law Buildings]], [[Sterling Memorial Library]], [[Woolsey Hall]], [[Yale Center for British Art]], [[Yale University Art Gallery]], [[Yale Art & Architecture Building]], and the [[Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art]] in London. Yale's secret society buildings (some of which are called "tombs") were built to be private yet unmistakable. A diversity of architectural styles is represented: [[Berzelius (secret society)|Berzelius]], [[Donn Barber]] in an austere cube with classical detailing (erected in 1908 or 1910); [[Book and Snake]], Louis R. Metcalfe in a [[Greek Ionic]] style (erected in 1901); [[Elihu (secret society)|Elihu]], architect unknown but built in a [[American colonial architecture|Colonial]] style (constructed on an early 17th-century foundation although the building is from the 18th century); [[Mace and Chain]], in a late colonial, early [[Victorian fashion|Victorian style]] (built in 1823). (Interior moulding is said to have belonged to [[Benedict Arnold]]); [[Manuscript Society]], [[King-lui Wu]] with [[Dan Kiley]] responsible for landscaping and [[Josef Albers]] for the brickwork intaglio mural. Building constructed in a [[mid-century modern]] style; [[Scroll and Key]], [[Richard Morris Hunt]] in a Moorish- or Islamic-inspired [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts style]] (erected 1869β70); [[Skull and Bones]], possibly [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] or [[Henry Austin (architect)|Henry Austin]] in an [[Egyptian Revival|Egypto-Doric style]] utilizing [[Brownstone]] (in 1856 the first wing was completed, in 1903 the second wing, 1911 the [[Neo-Gothic]] towers in rear garden were completed); [[St. Elmo (secret society)|St. Elmo]], (former tomb) [[Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison|Kenneth M. Murchison]], 1912, designs inspired by Elizabethan manor. Current location, brick colonial; and [[Wolf's Head (secret society)|Wolf's Head]], [[Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue]], erected 1923β1924, Collegiate Gothic.
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