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  • Mystery Monday: open-and-shut case

    This week’s mystery: where on campus can you find windows with these distinctive shutters? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 24 2020 08:17am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: court is in session

    Today’s mystery: where on campus can you find these squash rackets carved in stone? Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | August 17 2020 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: a building remembered

    This week’s Mystery Monday poses two questions: where on campus can you find this stone carving, and what does it depict? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2020 07:53am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: looking up

    Another Monday, another mystery: who can tell us where on campus this photo was taken? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2020 07:58am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: stone scholar

    This fellow is going all in on the studious look for his Zoom classes this fall. Can you tell us where on campus this carving can be found? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 27 2020 08:35am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: grand opening

    Yale’s tradition of elaborate metal gates did not end with Samuel Yellin. Can you identify the location of this detail from a more recent... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2020 07:52am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: by the horns

    Yale’s stone carvings include a virtual Noah’s ark of animals. Where can this ovine ornament be found? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 13 2020 09:09am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: gateway

    Today it’s a medieval Mystery Monday: can you identify the location of this formidable-looking gate? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 22 2020 08:45am

  • Mystery Monday: initial reaction

    Mystery Monday: you can find the letter “Y” worked into the architecture of the campus in innumerable places. Where did we find this one? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 15 2020 07:54am

  • Mystery Monday: overhead

    Today’s mystery: where on campus can you find these zigzag-adorned arches? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 11 2020 07:38am

  • Mystery Monday: what’s the theme?

    Today’s mystery is not where you might these stone carvings—they’re on the north side of Benjamin Franklin College—but... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 4 2020 07:31am

  • Mystery Monday: pleasant outlook

    It’s time once again to test your powers of recall: can you tell us where on campus this oriel window can be found? The monogram is a clue... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 27 2020 07:43am

  • Mystery Monday: room with a view

    This might be one of the toughest Mystery Mondays we’ve done. Can you tell us where this photo was taken? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2019 08:25am

  • Mystery Monday: Hmmmmm

    This creature looks particularly pensive. Can anyone identify the building at Yale where s/he appears? We’ll update this post with the answer... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 14 2015 10:19am

  • Mystery Monday: Yale pride

    What campus building is guarded by this fierce terra cotta lion and several of his friends? We’ll update this post with the answer tomorrow.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2015 12:08pm

  • Mystery Monday: Y indeed

    This elaborate stone carving sits above the entrance to what Yale building? We’ll update this post with the answer tomorrow. Update: this is the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2015 10:09am

  • Mystery Monday: what do you call it?

    Where this photo was taken is no mystery for most of you, but do you know what this walkway is called, and why? We’ll update this post with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 26 2015 09:00am

  • Mystery Monday: a scholar’s life

    The architects and stone carvers who worked on Yale’s interwar Gothic buildings had a puckish sense of humor. Where on campus can you find this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2015 08:37am

  • Mystery Monday: carved in stone

    Some names and some dates—where on campus was this photo taken, and what do these stones represent? We’ll update this post with the answer... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2015 08:39am