The site of Seibu-Kodo Hall is the school land of the old-education-system vocational school Kyoto Craft High School (one of the former Kyoto Institutes of Technology), and after the high school was relocated to the present school land in Matsugasaki, it became the property of Kyoto Imperial University.
敷地はかつての旧制専門学校京都高等工芸学校（京都工芸繊維大学の前身校の一つ）の校地で、同校が松ヶ崎の現校地に移転したのち京都帝大の校地となった。