Daily News | Mellon Foundation awards $150K planning grant to Friends of the Tanner House and Penn preservation center
, which has been active in trying to raise awareness of the house’s deteriorating condition since December 2021, will lead the community engagement planning process. Friends member Christopher R. Rogers will direct it while working with Philadelphia cultural workers and community members to participate in the arts-centered participatory planning process.
Rogers said the Friends group is continuing to work with the current owner of the house, Michael A. Thornton, a college professor in Florida who is going through Philadelphia courts to untangle the title to the house so that it can be sold to a nonprofit organization. While the Friends of the Tanner House group is fighting to preserve it from decay, its members also recognize that the Tanner House is not the only significant historic site in the area.houses, Rogers said, “there is a historic district feeling for the Black cultural contributions in North Philadelphia.
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