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House of Miles: Building Back Miles Davis' Home

Music icon and East St. Louis native honored with new cultural center, film

9/12/2019 by KENYA VAUGHN

“Being in her makes me think of my grandmother,” Cheryl Davis said as she looked around and walked the newly rehabbed first floor of the House of Miles on Thursday in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Thanks to tireless work from a team led by House of Miles President Lauren A. Parks, what was once the childhood home of Cheryl’s father, Miles Davis – is now a museum and music education center.
“I’m happy they’ve done this because it honors my father – and my family,” Cheryl Davis said

Family Of Miles Davis celebrates documentary, restored East St. Louis home

9/9/2019 by CHAD DAVIS

The first phase of a project to restore the childhood home of famed trumpeter Miles Davis in East St. Louis is now complete.

The House of Miles East St. Louis opened its doors in June 2018. The first phase included the creation of a Miles Davis museum, an art gallery and a classroom setting for musicians and children. The space, which includes concert posters and artifacts, is a fitting tribute to the jazz musician, his family and friends said this week.

MILES TONES 2019 Fundraiser for Miles Davis' Historic Home

The House of Miles East St. Louis is a nonprofit organization located in Miles Davis’ historic childhood home in East St. louis, Illinois and it is known by the acronym H.O.M.E. They are engaged in a dual mission of maintaining this important cultural landmark as well as offering love and encouragement to the children of East St Louis through supportive programing offered at the H.O.M.E. “This is the kind of cultural stewardship we are proud to throw our support behind,”  said artist and Cherokee Street Gallery Founder, Benjamin Lowder. “The House of Miles East St. Louis is not just looking to preserve the past, they are building an enriched future on the foundation of Miles Davis’ legacy in East St. Louis.”

Grand opening and fundraising event to be held at Miles Davis home, East St. Louis

5/31/2018 by HEIDI WIECHERT

The public is invited to an official grand opening and fundraiser for the Miles Davis childhood home from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at 1701 Kansas Ave., Miles Davis Way, East St. Louis. The event is celebrating the newly renovated, former home of the late Miles Dewey Davis III, a jazz musician known for his skill on the trumpet.

Nonprofit renovated Miles Davis’ boyhood home for public, holding Miles Fest

5/24/2018 by JILL MOON

EAST ST. LOUIS — A window with a view into one of Illinois’ greats now is open through a nonprofit honoring an Alton native son.
The house where Miles Davis, who was born in Alton, Illinois, spent his formative years — and the nearly whole of his early life from 6 months old — will hold an official public opening during nonprofit House of Miles East Saint Louis’ inaugural Miles Fest, from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at the now-preserved-and-renovated former East St. Louis, Illinois, home of musical and creative genius Miles Davis.

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.