Mellon Foundation awards $150K planning grant to Friends of the Tanner House and Penn preservation center (Inquirer, 5/1/23)

Written By Christopher Rogers

Mellon Foundation awards $150K planning grant to Friends of the Tanner House and Penn preservation center

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $150,000 planning grant to the Friends of the Tanner House and the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, the Penn center announced Monday.

The grant project is titled “Henry Ossawa Tanner House: Annunciating a Community Cultural Platform with Holistic Preservation.”

The grant will help the Friends of the Tanner House develop community arts and cultural programming to create a “holistic preservation planning process” for the renovation and future programs at the house.

The Tanner House, located at 2908 W. Diamond St. in Strawberry Mansion, is on the National Register of Historic Places and also is a National Historic Landmark because the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner lived there from age 13 to about 28.

Christopher Rogers
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