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Fires and demolitions threaten Strawberry Mansion block where historic John Coltrane house struggles for survival Inga Saffron, The Philadelphia Inquirer For nearly 15 years, the historic Strawberry Mansion house where jazz great John Coltrane composed his most groundbreaking music has been hanging on by a thread. Despite being designated a national landmark and listed on the city’s historic register, it has been left in such disrepair that jazz historian and preservationist Faye Anderson urged Preservation Pennsylvania in 2020 to include it on its “at risk” list. The Coltrane house has managed to survive despite that dubious distinction, but the remainder of the handsome, late 19th-century rowhouses on North 33rd Street might not be around much longer. Two adjacent houses on the north side, which have both sat vacant for years, received “make safe” citations from the city after suffering fires in January. Now the house on the south side of Coltrane’s

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