In 2017, four artists bought Nina Simone’s childhood home for $95,000 to save it from demolition; Inside the restoration of the music legend’s historic 650-square-foot house in North Carolina | - The ...
In a quiet corner of Tryon, North Carolina, a small white clapboard house once held the beginnings of a voice that would change music and challenge a nation. From 1933 to 1937, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, later known as Nina Simone lived in the three-room, 650-square-foot home nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains according to Architectural Digest.