Adjacent to the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus, the 8 story building was designed by the local architectural firm of Wadsworth, Boston, Dimick, Mercer and Weatherill and completed in 1972 at a cost of $2.7 million.

[2] It was built to house the University of Maine School of Law, which had previously been located downtown at 68 High Street.

[2] In 2017, Architectural Digest named the building one of the 8 ugliest in the United States and called it "a futuristic version of the Roman Colosseum.

"[2] In 2023, the Maine School of Law was relocated downtown to a former office building at 300 Fore Street.

The University of Maine anticipates that the vacant law school will eventually be demolished, but there are no final plans to take the building down yet.