Hartford Seminary's origins date back to 1833 when the Pastoral Union of Connecticut was formed to train Congregational ministers.

[2] The Bible Normal College affiliated with the seminary in 1902 and changed its name to Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy.

In the 1910s, it planned a dedicated new campus on Hartford's west side, south of Elizabeth Street.

Surviving elements of this construction phase were used by the seminary until 1981, and currently constitute the campus of the University of Connecticut School of Law.

These, as well as the law school, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, primarily for their architecture.