"My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day, I find something creative to do with my life."
- Miles Davis
P.O. Box 243
East St. Louis, IL 62202
ph: (618) 213-8120
fax: (618) 397-6398
houseofm
HOME News
Thank you to our media friends and supporters for sharing our story and mission with their readers and followers.
See the latest mentions of HOME here. Read the entire article/story by clicking on the article title.
How Do You Think Miles Davis' East St. Louis Home Should Be Restored?
8/11/2016 by MELISSA MEINZER
On August 11, the House of Miles and the Creative Exchange Lab are coming together to lead a discussion about the future of the famous jazz musician's childhood home.
Miles Davis revolutionized jazz. But before "Kind of Blue" and "Bitches Brew," he was a kid who lived in a modest house in East St. Louis. If you didn’t know that, you’re not alone.
On the evening of Thursday, August 11, you can meet some of the folks behind House of Miles: Miles Davis Memorial Project, an effort to make Davis' house and East St. Louis a destination for music fans and history buffs. Jasmin Aber is executive director and co-founder of CEL Center for Architecture + Design Stl. She is facilitating Thursday’s event alongside House of Miles, a nonprofit raising money to restore the home.
Miles Davis’ Childhood Home to be Museum and Educational Center
8/10/2016 by WILLIS RYDER ARNOLD
Inside the shell of a modest house in East St. Louis, there is nothing to let a visitor know that one of the nation’s most noted musicians once called it home.
The interior of the one-story structure is skeletal — all bare studs and dust. But when Lauren Parks and Jasper Gery Pearson are inside, they can see the space where a young Miles Davis got his start in life, years before creating the music that would make him one of the biggest names in jazz. They hope to turn the trumpeter’s childhood home into a museum and educational space that will inspire children.
HOUSE OF MILES FUNDRAISER KICKS OFF NOVEMBER 17 IN EAST ST. LOUIS
10/27/2015
Mr. Alvin Parks invites you to be a part of history by attending a fundraiser for helping to restore and revitalize the childhood home of the most revered trumpeter of all time- Miles Davis!
Miles Davis' East St. Louis Childhood Home Is Falling Apart
11/1/2011 by ALBERT SAMAHA
There was a deep puddle the width of the entire dirt road, so Dr. Andrew Theising, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville, wheeled his car over the gravel shoulder instead.
He was taking a reporter on a mid-autumn tour of East St. Louis and no tour of East St. Louis would be complete without going down Kansas Avenue, to the corner at North 17th street, to see the childhood home of Miles Davis. As the car rolled back onto the road, the famous house came into view.
"Oh, no," said Theising. "Oh my God."
Miles Davis’ Childhood Home to Become Museum, Educational Center For Youth
8/27/2016 by KIERSTEN WILLIS
The home late jazz icon Miles Davis grew up in is gearing up for a makeover. Thanks to a St. Louis non-profit, the house is set to become a museum and children’s education center.
Curbed reported House of Miles East St. Louis is raising funds to complete the overhaul of the one-story structure, named after the non-profit.
Crews demolished the space earlier this month. Now the goal is to restoration to its 1920s aesthetics
Miles Davis’s Childhood Home to Become a Museum
8/23/2016 by JENNIFER WOOD
Though he made a name for himself in New York City, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis never forgot his roots. The son of a dentist, Davis spent his formative years in East St. Louis, Illinois—which is where he first began honing his craft and where, on his 13th birthday, Miles’s father presented him with a brand-new trumpet. Though the jazz great’s childhood home has been vacant for several years, a nonprofit group known as HOME (short for House of Miles East St. Louis) is planning to turn the storied property at 1701 Kansas Avenue into a museum and music education center for children.
Childhood home of jazz legend Miles Davis to become museum
8/22/2016 by BARBARA ELDREDGE
After lying vacant for years, the childhood home of groundbreaking jazz musician Miles Davis is being transformed into a museum dedicated to his life and work. Nonprofit group House of Miles East St. Louis (HOME) is currently raising money to finish rehabbing the dilapidated one-story structure at 1701 Kansas Ave., East St. Louis, Illinois where the world-renowned trumpeter spent his earliest years.
Interior demolition kicked off this month, with workers tearing out disintegrating walls and taking the home down to the studs. HOME has also organized a crowdfunding campaign seeking $50,000 to finish restoring the home to its 1920s heyday.
Crowdfunding campaign set up to renovate the childhood home of Miles Davis
8/21/2016 by MATT MICUCCI
The House of Miles East St. Louis (HOME) is a non-profit organization set up to restore the dilapidated childhood home of trumpeter Miles Davis. The property, located on Kansas Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, has been vacated for several years and is in need of extensive repairs.
In order to raise the funds required for the renovation, HOME has set up a crowdfunding campaign on gofundme.com, with a goal to raise $50,000.
Miles Davis’ childhood home will be a museum and educational center
8/18/2016 by KELLEY D. EVANS
If you know jazz history, there is no conversation about the genre that doesn’t include the late great composer and trumpeter Miles Davis. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see artifacts from where he grew up and other pieces of his journey in one place?
One organization is in the process of making this happen. A nonprofit agency called HOME (House of Miles East St. Louis) started a project to restore Davis’ childhood home at 1701 Kansas Ave. in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Project to restore childhood home of jazz legend Miles Davis in East St. Louis gains momentum
8/11/2016 by ASHLEY LISENBY
The dilapidated childhood home of Miles Davis is the core of a renovation project that will restore the home to its original vitality and offer education to area children.
Project leaders began the effort to repair the home at 1701 Kansas Avenue in East St. Louis a few years ago. The home is expected to open later this year.
The museum will display memorabilia related to the famous jazz musician and offer history and music classes to children.
The nonprofit started an online campaign to help fund the project.
"We feel with the renovation of this home, this will be a sanctioned place to socialize, tour and develop artistic/cultural skills, which will be useful throughout many lives," the group writes on the crowdfunding site.
Renovation Of Miles Davis’ Childhood Home Nearing Completion
8/11/2016 by BRETT BLUME
A nearly decade-long effort to restore the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis and open it as a museum is nearing its culmination.
“We’re looking at completion by late fall,” according to Lauren Parks, President of House of Miles ESL – the group behind the campaign. “We’ve raised approximately $50,000. We need another $50,000 to complete Phase One, which is completion of the structure itself.”
Phase Two – described as a brick fundraiser for a courtyard, will be kicking off “very soon,” according to Parks.
P.O. Box 243
East St. Louis, IL 62202
ph: (618) 213-8120
fax: (618) 397-6398
houseofm