Neighborhood: Downtown

Baldwin Plaza in 1974

Directly behind what was then the new state courthouse building, a plaza costing around $1million was built.  Dedicated at a ceremony on October 10, 1974, the plaza was named after former Connecticut governor Raymond E. Baldwin Sr. The ceremony was held in the new plaza, with ...

August 13, 2012
Bridgeport Post Office Mural
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Bridgeport Post Office Mural

Photograph: History of Mail Transportation, United States Post Office, Bridgeport. Mural Painted by Robert Lamdin According to art historian Patricia Raynor, "the United States-on post office walls large and small are scenes reflecting America's history and way of life. Post offices built in the 1930s during ...

Neighborhoods
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Neighborhoods

Bridgeport  has often been called a "City of Neighborhoods."  There are commonly used designations for the various areas of Bridgeport, each neighborhood historically attracting immigrants from a variety of ethnic groups.  What has become the city of Bridgeport is the mixing of citizens who moved here ...