An architecturally undistinguished two-story built in 1926, it was from 1958 home to Boce W. Barlow Jr. (1915–2005), the first African-American to win election to the Connecticut State Senate, and a prominent figure in Hartford politics.

[1] The Boce W. Barlow Jr. House is located in Hartford's northernmost Blue Hills neighborhood, on the west side of Canterbury Street north of Westbourne Parkway.

After serving in World War II in a segregated unit, he graduated from Harvard Law School, one of only four African-Americans in his class.

Like his father before him, he was active in Democratic Party politics, and won election to the state senate in 1966, serving two terms.

When he moved into this house in 1958 with his wife and children, they were the first African-Americans on the block, and were subjected to harassment and prejudicial behavior.