The house belonged to Othniel Charles Marsh, a paleontologist and Yale professor during the 19th century who became famous for his skeletal reconstructions and studies of vertebrate fossils. The brontosaurus in the Peabody Museum (Brontosaurus Excelsus Marsh) was named after him. He hired J. Cleveland Cady to design the house, which was built between 1875 and 1880 at a cost of $30,000. Cady was a well-known architect in New Haven and designed numerous buildings for Yale (many of which no longer survive). Marsh lived here until his1899 death. Yale now owns the building, which is used by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
This entry was created by Amelia Kennedy.