tanner house
Fieldwork

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

 

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.

Armstrong School
Fieldwork

Preserving the St. Paul Baptist Church and The Armstrong School

A Tuskegee x Penn preservation effort to stabilize, preserve, interpret and sustain the a rare cultural landscape in Macon Co, AL.

Bayard Rustin
Research

National Register Research

Documentation of significant Black heritage sites in the Philadelphia region and state of Alabama.

students on site
Teaching

Civil Rights Heritage Courses

Learning from Civil Rights heritage in the classroom

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.” 

students and professor
Teaching

Tuskegee University, Department of Architecture, Teaching Collaboration

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.

gas station
Research

Picturing Civil Rights

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A public visual archive of Black heritage situated in the vernacular American landscape.

stainglass
Research

Sustainable Site Management Assessments

In Partnership with the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Site Consortium

An initiative to support managers of highly significant civil rights heritage places by identifying key challenges and how to address them.