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Woolsey Hall, circa 1905
Woolsey Hall, Yale University

Woolsey Hall is the primary auditorium at Yale University, located on the campus' Hewitt Quadrangle in New Haven, Connecticut. It was built as part of the Bicentennial Buildings complex that includes the Memorial Rotunda and the University Commons for the Yale bicentennial celebration in 1901, and was designed by the Beaux-Arts architectural firm Carrère and Hastings. With approximately 2,650 seats,[1][2] it is the university's largest auditorium and hosts concerts, performances, and university ceremonies including the annual freshman convocation, senior baccalaureate, and presidential inaugurations. The building is named for Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President of Yale from 1846 through 1871.[3]

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  2. ^ "Woolsey Hall". Yale School of Music. Yale University. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Teutonic Constitutionalism - the Role of Ethno-Juridical Discourse in the Spanish–American War", by Mark S. Weiner, in Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution, edited by Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall; published June 29, 2001, by Duke University Press

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