New Video: A Fired Architect and the Lost Campus of Hartford Seminary on Broad Street
My latest YouTube video is about the campus of the Hartford Theological Seminary, which stood on Broad Street in Hartford, CT. The main building, Hosmer Hall, was erected in 1879 and tensions with the contractors and the building committee led to the firing of famous architect Francis H. Kimball. A decade later, work began on the adjacent Case Memorial Library building. The Seminary moved to a new campus on Sherman Street (now the home of UCONN Law School) in 1926 and Hosmer Hall was replaced by a Y.W.C.A. dormitory building (torn down in 1972). Before it was demolished in 1964, the former Case Memorial Library was home to the Hart School of Music from 1938 until 1963.
I went to Hartt for my undergrad (class of 04), and I had always heard that Hartt used to be on Broad Street. I could never figure out which building, but now I know why! It was torn down when Hartt moved to its current location, joining Hartt with the Hartford Art School and Hillyer College to form the University of Hartford.