Nina Simone’s Childhood Home in North Carolina Designated a National Treasure

Style Magazine Newswire | 6/22/2018, 12:36 p.m.
Musician Nina Simone passed away in 2003 at 70 years old, but her legacy survives. A 2015 documentary on her …
Musician Nina Simone's childhood home

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Musician Nina Simone passed away in 2003 at 70 years old, but her legacy survives. A 2015 documentary on her life, What Happened, Miss Nina Simone?, received an Oscar nomination and her influence has touched everyone from Lauryn Hill to Mary J. Blige. Now the icon is receiving a huge honor. Her childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina will be designated a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her home is now a vacant wooden cottage with three rooms and measuring 660-square feet. The house was put on the market in 2016 and was recently purchased by four Black artists to maintain Simone’s legacy.

One, Adam Pendleton, said in a press release, “Last year, my fellow artists and I felt an urgent need to rescue Nina Simone’s childhood home—a need sprung from a place of political activism as well as civic duty.”

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