The mansion housing the International Center for Finance at 46 Hillhouse Avenue was designed in the mid- nineteenth century by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, who modeled it on a house he greatly admired in Regents Park, London. Built as a residence for Yale alumnus and New Haven Mayor Aaron Skinner, it was also used as an exclusive boys' school. In 1858, Judge W.W. Boardman remodeled the house with an addition attributed to Henry Austin. Rutherford Trowbridge, the house's third owner, was the scion of a prominent New Haven shipping family.