John Coltrane Home | NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, recording studio

 residence, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, recording studio

The John Coltrane Home is the house in the Dix Hills neighborhood of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. This unassuming exterior of this two-story brick house on New York’s Long Island belies its rich jazz history: it’s where the legendary saxophonist and composer John Coltrane wrote “A Love Supreme,” his most immortal album, and spent the last years of his life before passing away in 1967.

The house was threatened by a developer’s plans for demolition 2004, but a passionate group of music lovers, musicians, and Coltrane aficionados knew if the house were to be destroyed, an essential part of America’s music history would be lost. The city government of Huntington, New York was able to purchase the home, and the town in turn donated it to a newly-minted group called Friends of the Coltrane Home. As Ron Stein of the Coltrane Home explains, the house had been abandoned for several years and was in poor condition when the group acquired it in 2007. Holes in the roof, animal infestation, vandalism and rampant mold were just a few of the issues that the organization faced when attempting to start the structure’s restoration.