ACES Museum

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This is the magnificent ballroom in Parker Hall that we are fighting to save. Dr. Althea Hankins rediscovered this space above her medical practice, and learned that it has immense significance to Black veterans from World War II. This led her to establish the ACES Museum at 5801 Germantown Avenue.
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National Geographic | #VoteYourMainStreet Vote to choose which Main Streets receive a share of $2 million in preservation funding, then enter to win a Main Streets experience from National Geographic. Vote for up to five Main Streets today and every day until October 31st!

On Memorial Day in 2015 ACES museum held a program honoring veterans in historic Germantown featuring a speech from Senator Art Haywood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxVjD7LVSaA. To keep programming like this alive, vote five times a day until the end of October here: VoteYourMainStreet.org/Germantown

Memorial Day Program, ACES Museum, Gtown Av and Price St, May 23, 2015 via YouTube Capture

Check out this great article by Curbed Philly about ACES https://tinyurl.com/ybbfg93e . As always, Be sure to vote! vote! vote! Less than 15 days left! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/voteyourmainstreet/ #/?mainstreet=germantown

Germantown in running for national grant to restore African-American landmarks Two buildings on Germantown’s main street with ties to African-American history are in the running for a national historic preservation grant to bring their facades back to life.

On July 4, 2010 sailors from the USS Bulkeley paid a visit to the museum before they returned to Iraq. Watch here:tinyurl.com/y9alkbbt

Help support programming like this by voting here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/voteyourmainstreet/ #/?mainstreet=germantown

National Geographic | #VoteYourMainStreet Vote to choose which Main Streets receive a share of $2 million in preservation funding, then enter to win a Main Streets experience from National Geographic. Vote for up to five Main Streets today and every day until October 31st!

Philadelphia! It takes 30 seconds to Vote Germantown and help the historic ACES museum secure $150,000 in preservation grants. Vote here:

National Geographic | #VoteYourMainStreet Vote to choose which Main Streets receive a share of $2 million in preservation funding, then enter to win a Main Streets experience from National Geographic. Vote for up to five Main Streets today and every day until October 31st!