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.