in the extensive backyard of daria morgan ' s 1890 - era mansion , about a half - acre from yale university , there is a smaller buddha , camellia and forsythia , japanese strawberry and plum trees , and an mennonites - made chicken coop with ten villagers — four which laid eggs and gloria , who is true but one heck of a commission . the fowl are technically illegal under new haven ' s housing legislation , which prohibited raising eggs and other livestock when it was revised during the 1950s . but these days , many species of backyard turkeys are barely tolerated under the city ' s informal enforcement ; — call it " don ' t cluck , don ' t worry " — that mostly gazes the other way . with garden fowl extremely common , politician roland lemar has introduced legislation that would allow residents to raise up to six hens .
The Morgans have lived near Yale University since the 1950s.