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November 24, 1968. The Ezra Stiles House is an historic house at 14 Clarke Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof and two large interior brick chimneys, built in 1756.
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Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12,...
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This third Clarke Street gambrel takes its name from its most famous occupant. Built to serve as the rectory for Second Congregational “forever,” this broad, five-bay, two-and-one-half-story house was home to the learned reverend briefly (1775–1776) while he served as minister of the church.
Ezra Stiles College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. [1] The college is named after Ezra Stiles, the seventh President of Yale. Architecturally, it is known for its lack of right angles between walls in the living areas.
Ezra Stiles College is named to honor the memory of Ezra Stiles, Yale Class of 1746, an eminent American theologian, lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, who served as the seventh President of Yale from 1778 to 1795. The distinguished historian Edmund Morgan characterized Ezra Stiles as follows: “Although he became the most learned man of his ...
8 de sept. de 2023 · The enslaved person Stiles bought for his father, Isaac, did not stay in Newport. Isaac Stiles was then living in North Haven, Connecticut, so Prince (the enslaved individual Ezra purchased) was transported over one hundred miles west to, most likely, be a domestic slave in Isaac’s household, considering Isaac’s affluence as the town’s minister and advanced age.
74 For two instances of Stiles being kept abreast of schools, the first example concerning Philadelphia and the second Portugal, see John Ely to Ezra Stiles, 20 July 1789, in Ezra Stiles, Extracts from the Itineraries and Other Miscellanies, 482–5; and David Humphreys to Ezra Stiles, 14 Feb. 1792, in ibid., 514–16.
