St Michael's Court was completed in the 1930s when its south side was built.

Michaelhouse, a former college of the University of Cambridge, was established on Michaelmas Day 1324.

Michaelhouse was combined with King's Hall to form Trinity College in 1546.

It had a claim to be the oldest bookshop in the United Kingdom, since books had been sold on the site since 1581.

The Hawks' Club, a social club founded in 1872 for sportsmen at the university, was originally in Trinity Street, but by the 1890s it had moved to a property owned by St John's College in All Saints' Passage.