Osborne Memorial Laboratories
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The Osborne Memorial Labs were built in the late 1800s as the home for biology at Yale University. In the past, they contained both Zoology and Botany, in the two wings on Sachem Street and Prospect Street (address: 165 Prospect St.). They sit at the base of Sachem's Woods, which were the original site of Hill House, now the site of Kline Biology Tower, Sage Hall (the former Forestry School, since renamed Forestry and Environmental Sciences), the chemistry and phsyics buildings. In short, the area known as Science Hill. It sits across Prospect Street from Ingalls Rink and across Sachem from the Yale School of Management.
Osborne Memorial Laboratories is an entirely masonry structure, down to the sub-basement of unfinished brickwork. Its main arch was once a covered entry for carriages. It contained a library over that same arch, with a faux sky ceiling, now a conference room, and a series of laboratories. The laboratories and offices have been many times reconfigured. Now the first floor and basements are set aside for teaching, the second, third and fourth for research, and the fifth for special facilities on the Sachem Wing, laboratories on the Prospect Wing (where once there was a herbarium). The towers are no longer actively occupied.
Famous work in these laboratories includes the groundbreaking work of Joshua Lederberg, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and others. The main department in the building is now the Yale Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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