The Andrew Freedman Home: Here’s How You Can Rent This Venue

If you live in New York City, were you aware that there’s a stunning mansion with landmark status in the Bronx that you can rent out for your own events? Known as the Andrew Freedman Home, it’s accessible from anywhere in New York City via subway, and provides you and your guests with an amazing opportunity to step back in time for a few hours and experience a historic, luxurious space for whatever event you might be planning.

What is the Andrew Freedman Home?

The Andrew Freedman Home is a historic, more than 3,000-square-foot mansion that is located in the friendly, family-oriented, working-class Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx.

The mansion was built by its namesake, Andrew Freedman, in the 1920s to act as a comfortable retirement home for elderly individuals who had lost their former fortunes. Today, it serves a totally different purpose, but is nevertheless highly community oriented: it is an official New York City Designated Landmark and functions as a neighborhood hub for community services.

These services include workforce development, artist residency, an incubator space, and more. And one of its many functions is to serve as a fabulous venue for professional and personal events!

The mansion has a few spaces, indoor and out, that are particularly great for events. These include the front lawn, which is right past a beautiful front gate, as well as an event room. Most impressive of all is its Grand Ballroom, which measures 42 feet wide by 77 feet long. The enormous Grand Ballroom boasts walls of massive and beautiful windows that let in tons of natural light and can accommodate as many as 250 guests in total.

Address: 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY

Make your next event one to remember by hosting it at the one-of-a-kind Andrew Freedman Home!

Why rent out the Andrew Freedman Home?

There are a wide variety of events for which the Andrew Freedman Home would be a suitable venue.

These include:

• Conferences
• Retreats
• Art exhibitions
• Workshops
• Screenings
• Baby showers
• Weddings

Just because it’s big doesn’t mean it’s only suited to big events! Although its large capacity allows for as many as 250 guests, you can use the smaller event spaces in the mansion for more intimate gatherings of closer to 25 people than 250.

In addition, its architecturally impressive interiors and exterior make it a fantastic location for productions like photoshoots, filming, or TV shoots (period pieces in particular would benefit from its historic features). The Andrew Freedman Home is a space where you have the chance to bring your creative projects to life on a scale you may not imagine.

The Andrew Freedman Home is also conveniently located, meaning that you and your guests won’t have much trouble getting here if you’re coming in from other boroughs. It is within walking distance of the 167th Street Station, where the D and 4 trains run, and it’s even a quick walk from Yankee Stadium.

Amenities and features you’ll find at this mansion

Looking for some additional amenities that you can enjoy when you rent the Andrew Freedman Home for your event?

You’ll also have access to these features:

• There is limited free on site parking available as well as free street parking nearby.
• Furniture such as tables and chairs are available here to be used for your event, and are included with the cost of your rental.
• You will have access to outdoor space for your event in addition to the indoor space of the mansion itself.
• The venue comes with free WiFi.
• There is a great deal of natural light throughout the mansion thanks to its large windows.
• There is a kitchen available as needed for use by caterers.
• The space is wheelchair accessible and has street level access.
• There are restrooms on site.

Rules for renting the mansion

There are some reasonable rules in place for safety, and to protect the mansion and its historic features from damage.

Please keep these rules in mind when booking:

• All ages are welcome as guests at this mansion, including children.
• There is a four-hour minimum rental period for this venue.
• You may bring in your own food (i.e., outside catering) as well as bar/beverages.
• No smoking is allowed on the premises, including the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookah, and other kinds of smoking-related paraphernalia.
• Underage drinking as well as selling alcohol without a permit are both against the law and are therefore prohibited.
• You may not use any open flames as part of your room decorations or table centerpieces.
• You might need to hire additional security depending on the parameters of your event (this is something to discuss with the host of the space).

Need an epic shooting location for your next creative project? Then head over to the Andrew Freedman Home’s Peerspace page and start booking!

How can I rent out the Andrew Freedman Home?

The fact that you can rent the Andrew Freedman Home using Peerspace makes your rental process significantly simpler and more straightforward. Peerspace is the internet’s largest platform for hourly venue rentals and makes it easy to discover and rent unique spaces across the globe.

It really is a one-step process: you simply go to the mansion’s Peerspace listing, put in the date and start/end time of your planned booking, and then click the purple “Start Booking” button! From there, await the response of the host, Rhonda J., which you’ll probably receive within about 24 hours.

The Peerspace listing for the Andrew Freedman Home is a great overview of the info you’ll want to have before you decide to rent this venue. It comes with super high-quality photos of the mansion (including all its highlights and most impressive rooms). There’s also useful overview of what the space has to offer,. Plus, you can read honest reviews from those who’ve rented the space in the past.

Perhaps, though, you still have questions after you’ve looked over the entirety of the listing. In that case, you’ll want to reach out to host Rhonda J. by clicking the “Message Host” button at the top of the listing, right underneath the listing’s title and other essential details like star rating and square footage.

Rent the Andrew Freedman Home on Peerspace