Fisk University Receives Funding for Historic Building Preservation
Fisk University in Nashville has been awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation to preserve Park-Johnson Hall, a building designed by Moses McKissack III in 1954. This initiative is part of the Conserving Black Modernism program, which aims to protect significant sites designed by Black architects. The program, established in 2022, has distributed over $4.85 million in funding to various projects. Park-Johnson Hall, a modernist structure with a red brick facade, houses classrooms and administrative spaces. The grant will aid in developing a preservation plan and documenting the work of McKissack & McKissack, the oldest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S. 
