Freer House and Garden

Giving Day contributions of every size make a major difference! Support the Freer House and Garden today.

• Once the Freer House and Garden has raised $3,500 on Giving Day, a $2,000 gift will be unlocked, thanks to generous leadership match contributions from Lillian and Walter Dean and the Garden Club of Michigan.

Built by industrialist and art collector Charles Lang Freer in 1892, the Freer House is a masterpiece of American shingle-style architecture and the birthplace of the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. As an early champion of American, Asian, and Middle Eastern art, Freer’s legacy of multi-culturalism is celebrated in the house’s mission and programming today. These bonds to our nation’s capital and much of the world make the Freer House an ambassador of Detroit’s unique cultural heritage. Freer House is the headquarters of the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute at 71 E. Ferry Street.

Support the Freer House Public Garden

This year, we are raising funds to support annual maintenance and improvements for the revitalized Freer House and Garden.

This public garden located at 71 E. Ferry Street, just east of Woodward, offers a tranquil place of beauty and respite for students, staff and the surrounding community to enjoy at any time and in every season.

With a donation today, you can help protect, restore, and maintain this historic landmark and public garden.

Achieve your charitable goals and create your WSU legacy with a gift in your estate plan.

Wayne State faculty and staff can give via payroll deduction here.