Canterbury House on South Tracy at Olive is the Family Center and Family Promise offices.

The Family Center
at Canterbury House

The Family Center at 209 South Tracy in the Bozeman Historic District is the office of Family Promise and the daily working space for our guests to seek housing, employment, education, and additional social services to get them back on their feet. The Center will be open every day from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm.

The house was built as rental property in 1879 by a black barber named Samuel W. Lewis. Born in the West Indies in 1832 and raised later in Newark NJ, he traveled and worked broadly including Europe, San Francisco, Sierra County California, Idaho City,Portland, and Virginia City, Helena, Elk Creek, and Radersburg in Montana before settling in Bozeman in 1868.

Canterbury House has since been occupied by the likes of Theophilus Sackett, a saloon keeper, and his descendants; Emmet White, a laborer at Bozeman Cannery; Montana Bible College; and, most recently, served Saint James Episcopal Church in its youth ministries.

We thank St. James Episcopal Church for providing Canterbury House, rent-free, as the Family Center for the next two years.