Downtown North Sites

William Pinto House
275 Orange Street
This Federal-style house, built in 1820, is a link to one of the earliest Jewish families in New Haven, who arrived around 1758.

The New Haven Arena
10–40 Grove Street
Maurice Podoloff, a Russian Jewish immigrant, partnered with his brother and father in 1926 to complete the Arena. It soon became the leading venue for hockey, basketball, boxing, wrestling and other sporting events as well as concerts.

Maier Zunder House
352 Orange Street
Maier Zunder (1829-1901), a Bavarian-born Jewish banker and philanthropist, served on the New Haven Board of Education for 24 years, promoting many school reforms.

Congregation Mishkan Israel
380 Orange Street
Established in 1840, the oldest synagogue in Connecticut. This Spanish Renaissance style building was dedicated in 1897.

Stephen J. Maher Residence
405 Orange Street
An Irish-American, Dr. Maher was a Yale School of Medicine graduate, an early expert on the treatment of tuberculosis and member and Chairman of the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission.

Lafayette Mendel House
18 Trumbull Street
Lafayette Mendel was a pioneering physiologist best known for his work on nutrition. He was one of the first tenured Jewish professors at Yale and the first to be named a Sterling Professor.

Leopold Waterman House/Jewish Home for Children
441 Orange Street
A Bavarian Jewish immigrant, Waterman built this Greek Revival style house in the 1840s. The first President of Congregation Mishkan Israel, he was active in many Jewish organizations. In 1905 the house became an orphanage for Jewish children.

St. Mary's Church
5 Hillhouse Avenue
In 1882, while a curate at St. Mary's Church, Father Michael McGivney and his predominately Irish parishioners founded the Knights of Columbus at meetings held in the basement of St. Mary's Church.

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
15 Hillhouse Avenue
Morris Steinert, a Bavarian Jew, came to New Haven in 1861. A distributor of Steinway Pianos and a musician, he founded the New Haven Symphony in 1894. He donated his collection of rare and antique instruments to Yale in 1900.