Commons Dining Hall at Schwarzman Center (New Haven, Connecticut)

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Designed c. 1902 in the Beaux Arts style by Carrère & Hastings as a timber-trussed dining hall seating 1,200 people known as the Commons Dining Hall. It is now known after being emptied and renovated to become the Stephen A. Schwarzman Center after a $150mil donation by alumnus and Blackstone Group co-founder Stephen Schwarzman. It is now Yale's cultural and programming hub. Restoration was conducted by Robert A. M. Stern Architects.

It served as a stand-in for the fictional Marshall College Library during the filming of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008). To give the room a more scholarly feel, 'The Four Doctors' (1906) by John Singer Sargent was reproduced on canvas to look like a mural.

schwarzman.yale.edu/
hospitality.yale.edu/yale-commons-dining-hall
www.tagexbrands.com/post/2017/12/19/yale-university-hir...

Indiana Jones filming:
indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Marshall_College_Library
www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/nyregion/01yale.html
locations.yale.edu/about-us/yale-film-history