Built in 1910 and enlarged in 1920, it served as a maintenance barn first for electric streetcars and then buses for many years, and was one of the few surviving reminders of the city's early public transit system.

It was demolished in 2008 to make way for construction of the Connecticut Superior Court juvenile facility that now stands on its site.

[2] The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company Car Barn was located on the east side of downtown Bridgeport, on a parcel of more than 5 acres (2.0 ha) bounded on the north by Congress Street, the west by Housatonic Street, the east by the Pequonnock River, and the south by a railroad right-of-way.

The garage portion of the structure was covered by a series of parallel shed-roof monitor sections.

[3] The barn was built in 1910, and served as the principal repair and storage facility for the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company which provided Bridgeport's streetcar service in the early 20th century.