Alternative names The Eli Type Mixed-Use Topped-out 1938 Construction started 1937 Phone +1 203-865-1000 | Status Complete Height 60 m Opened 1938 | |
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Location 227 Church StreetNew Haven Connecticut Similar Union and New Haven Tr, 360 State Street, New Haven Green, Robert A Taft Memorial, Yale University | ||
The Southern New England Telephone Company Administration Building, also known as The Eli, is a skyscraper at 227 Church Street in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The former headquarters of the Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET), the Art Deco building was completed in 1938, and was the tallest building in the city until 1966 (it is currently the tenth-tallest building in New Haven's skyline). Some 1,200 SNET employees worked in the office building after its completion. Beginning in 2004, the building was converted to a luxury apartment building and rechristened "The Eli"; it now is home to 142 apartments and two storefronts. The building, designed by Douglas Orr and Roy W. Foote, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
It is regarded as New Haven's "premier" example of Art Deco architecture, and displays one of the area's most extensive employment of Stony Creek pink granite. When built in 1937, it was the tallest and largest office building in the city.