The Freeman Center for History and Community, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 organization with offices at 1115 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Center owns the historic Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses (circa 1848), located at 360 and 354 Main Street in Bridgeport’s South End. It has owned the Freeman Houses since 2010. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Freeman Houses are significant to the histories of African Americans and Women.
The Freeman Center is creating an African American historic site consisting of a museum and education center, a research and digital humanities center, and one unit of affordable housing. The Center’s preservation and restoration plans are designed to act as catalysts to neighborhood revitalization in Bridgeport’s South End.
The mission of The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center is to restore, preserve, and ensure the viability of the Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses; teach the history of Black people in Connecticut; revitalize the surrounding South End community; and facilitate the preservation and revitalization of other African-American, and greater Bridgeport historic and preservation communities.
