Safeguarding a legacy

KNOW-HOW YOU NEED TO GET HOME UPGRADES DONE RIGHT

Seven years ago, when she first glimpsed the bright-blue Folk Victorian in South Atlanta, Kysha Hehn walked away in something of a trance. Built in the 1890s, the house had been unoccupied for decades and had fallen into disrepair, but Kysha couldn’t shake the feeling that it was special. “There was something about the house,” she says. “I wondered about its past.”

Kysha and her husband, Jonathan, along with their two children, Alivia Sage, now 12, and Joia, 10, soon learned that the house was significant to South Atlanta, a neighborhood central to the city’s elite Black community at the turn of the last century. The house had been built by Luther Judson Price, a local store owner and South Atlanta’s first postmaster; he and his wife, Minnie, raised their five children there. Price was known as a community leader who actively encouraged the Black community to exercise