This house was originally located on Main Street in Hartford. It was built in 1788 for Amos Bull, a dry goods merchant, who had a shop on the first floor and also ran a school in the house. Bull once lived in the Silas Deane House in Wethersfield and one of his five wives was Abigail Webb from the Webb House. He sold the house in 1821 and it has since been moved twice: once in 1940 and a second time in 1971 to its present location on Prospect Street, behind the Butler-McCook House. The Amos Bull House is a Federal style brick half house, a type of townhouse more commonly found in larger cities than Hartford. In recent years, the building housed the Historic Preservation and Museum Division of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Update: A major restoration of the house was completed in 2014 by Connecticut Landmarks. It is now that organization’s archival repository and offices.
The Amos Bull House has been deeded to Connecticut Landmarks formerly known as the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society.