African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

In 2017, four artists paid $95,000 to save Nina Simone’s deteriorating childhood home in North Carolina; eight years later, the three-room house where she learned piano was fully restored

Photo credit: https://savingplaces.org A small three-room house in Tryon, North Carolina, once stood close to demolition.…

Restorers used a family photo and research on early 20th-century Black homes to recreate the house.…