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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

September 27, 2026
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Photo credit: https://savingplaces.org A small three-room house in Tryon, North Carolina, once stood close to demolition.…

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In 2017, four artists paid $95,000 to save Nina Simone’s childhood home from demolition; eight years later, a nearly $850,000 rehabilitation restored the three-room North Carolina house

September 26, 2026
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Restorers used a family photo and research on early 20th-century Black homes to recreate the house.…