The founding of the University of Hartford in 1957 allowed Trinity to focus on becoming a regional institution rather than a local one. It replaced the Seabury chapel which had become too small for the student body. In 1932, under President Remsen Ogilby, the Gothic chapel was completed and became the symbol of Trinity College. The early years of the century were primarily growth years for Trinity. Trinity ended the nineteenth century as an institution primarily serving the Hartford area. Under President Keith Funston (1943–51), returning veterans expanded the enrollment to 900. The faculty grew from 25 to 62, and the student body from 167 to 530 men. President Remsen Ogilby (1920–43) enlarged the campus, and more than doubled the endowment. Only one section of the proposed campus plan - the Long Walk- was completed.īy 1889 the library contained 30,000 volumes, and the school boasted over 900 graduates.
The original plans for the Gallows Hill site were drawn by the noted Victorian architect William Burges but were too ambitious and too expensive to be fully realized. Although the college sold its land overlooking the Park River and Bushnell Park in 1872, it did not complete its move to its Gallows Hill campus until 1878. In 1872, Trinity College was persuaded by the state to move from its downtown "College Hill" location (now Capitol Hill, site of the state capitol building) to its current 100-acre (40 ha) campus a mile southwest. William Burges's original plan for the campus of Trinity College Construction of the new campus was begun under the presidency of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1874–1883). Then-president Abner Jackson hired an English architect to draw up plans for an entire campus. The trustees moved the college to an 80-acre site on a ridge on the western edge of Hartford. So the trustees were persuaded to sell the entire campus to the city in 1872 for $600,000. The site next to Bushnell Park, where Trinity College then stood, was deemed an ideal location for building a statehouse. The other was a dormitory for the male students who attended the college. One of the Greek Revival buildings housed a chapel, library, and lecture rooms. The college was renamed Trinity College in 1845 the original campus consisted of two Greek Revival buildings. Over time Bushnell Park was laid out to the north and the east, creating a beautiful space. A 14-acre site was chosen, at the time about a half-mile from the city of Hartford. Bishop Thomas Brownell opened Washington College in 1824 to nine male students and the vigorous protest of Yale alumni.
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