Historic houses contain layered stories from the people who have lived there over decades and centuries. Historic house museums often also have additional layers of meaning and mystery created by the process of preservation and restoration. Recently Board Member Emily Taggart Schricker looked back over Elfreth’s Alley Association minutes and the logbook of the restoration of house #126 to learn more about the layers in our museum today.
During Black History Month we have been sharing, on social media, links and information on several local museums and historic sites. This is not at all an exhaustive list of the institutions in the Philadelphia area doing work to preserve and interpret Black history, but I wanted to capture the information from our posts in one place.