 Originally operating as a white male school , Bacon Academy integrated " negroes and persons of color " around 1833 and began to educate women in 1842 . The school has educated important figures like Edwin Denison Morgan , Morgan Bulkeley , William A. Buckingham , Lyman Trumbull , and Morrison Waite . Due to the structure 's utilitarian style combined with its Federal details , the National Register of Historic Places recognizes it as architecturally significant . Currently , the Old Bacon Academy building is used as part of an alternative education program and Day Hall is used as a nursery . The properties were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 . 
