[5] The object of this Society is to maintain the practice of Medicine and Surgery in this city upon a respectable footing; to expose the ignorance and resist the arts of quackery; and to adopt measures for the mutual improvement, pleasant intercourse, and common good of its members.For the first 50 years of its existence, the Hartford Medical Society had no permanent location.

The HMS dedicated its new headquarters to Dr. Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt, a long-time member of the society, in accordance with the provisions of his widow's will.

[9] Hunt Memorial Hall housed parlors and meeting rooms, a kitchen, an auditorium, a library, a dispensary, and laboratories.

"The Hunt Memorial Hall," commented the editors of JAMA, "is a model of what should be erected in every large town and city of the land.

The library was housed in the Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Hospital before it was moved into the society's headquarters Hunt Memorial Hall.

[14] When the society moved to its new Hunt Memorial Hall in 1955, the library held over 25,000 volumes, including a full run of The Lancet, on three floors of stacks taking up almost the entire building.

In April 2009, around 6,000 volumes and many artifacts were moved into a newly renovated 2,500 ft² (230 m2) space in UConn Health's academic building's sub-basement.

[15] Housed in the Hunt Memorial Hall, the museum featured instruments, equipment, furnishings, and portraits from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, with a special focus on the life of Horace Wells and the history of anesthesia.