John Coltrane's Home Named An Endangered Historic Place

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John Coltrane's Home Named An Endangered Historic Place


DIX HILLS, N.Y. -- The orange, red and green shag carpeting in the room where John Coltrane wrote his masterpiece, "A Love Supreme," is, inexplicably, about the only piece of the jazz legend's former home that remains in good condition.

The rest of the 3,000-square-foot, ranch-style house has slowly deteriorated, despite local efforts over the past decade to save the property and convert the home into a museum honoring Coltrane.

Even the National Trust for Historic Preservation is worried; on Wednesday, the group named the home one of America's 11 most endangered historic places.

"The home is in danger of slipping away from us," said Steve Fulgoni, director of Friends of the Coltrane Home, a group trying to raise more than $1 million to restore and transform the home where Coltrane lived from 1964 until his death in 1967.

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