CPCRS implements its research, teaching and fieldwork mission through a series of Initiatives.
Preservation effort to stabilize and preserve the 19th century painter's Philadelphia home. Project in partnership with the Friends of Henry O. Tanner House, Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
A Tuskegee x Penn preservation effort to stabilize, preserve, interpret and sustain the a rare cultural landscape in Macon Co, AL.
Documentation of significant Black heritage sites in the Philadelphia region and state of Alabama.
Each semester CPCRS engages students with our partners in Alabama and Philadelphia through the Historic Preservation curriculum. In classrooms, studios, labs, and in the field, Weitzman School of Design educators and students collaborate to bring the preservation philosophies and principles of CPCRS “down to the ground.”
Weitzman’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation continues its collaboration with Kwesi Daniels and colleagues at Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture on courses focusing on historic preservation planning at sites in Alabama.
A public visual archive of Black heritage situated in the vernacular American landscape.
Share your photos of events and places that mark, memorialize and commemorate emancipation and Juneteenth.
CPCRS Research Fellow Charlette Caldwell is writing a white paper surveying the historiography of civil rights heritage, challenging how we conceptualize and research “sites” in terms of Black heritage. This is work in progress and will be published later this year.