These before and after images of the John Wesley Work House perfectly illustrate what is possible in restoring historic homes. It also is an example of institutions recognizing the need to preserve African-American history through the restoration of a house that was home to a historically significant Black individual.
The Queen Anne/Stick Style house was once home to Nashville composer and ethnomusicologist John W. Work III. Work moved into the house on Fisk University campus in 1937. A music teacher and one of the first academic scholars of rural African American folk music, Work made some of the earliest known field recordings of black Nashvillians. After a period of abandonment, the house was restored by Fisk University and the National Park Service.
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