ABSTRACT
It would be easy to miss Linsly-Chittenden Hall, located on High Street at Yale’s Old Campus if one passed it today. It has none of the eye-catching architectural details of the other neo-Gothic campus buildings. In addition, it is overshadowed by the magnificent clock-arch nearby that straddles High Street where it intersects with Chapel Street. It would have been much harder to miss during the 1961–1962 academic year, when it housed the laboratory of Dr. Stanley Milgram, a young assistant professor with a degree in social psychology from Harvard. At that time, the laboratory buzzed with activity, and there was a constant flow of people—participants in his experiments—coming through its doors.
