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Double vision: The Magnolia House used to be a decades-old passion project for one man. Now, someone else shares that dream — his daughter.

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Double vision: The Magnolia House used to be a decades-old passion project for one man. Now, someone else shares that dream — his daughter.

• Nancy McLaughlin
• Dec 11, 2019
• Dec 11, 2019
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Sam Pass poses for a portrait as he sits on a retaining wall that he restored at Magnolia House in Greensboro.

• Khadejeh Nikouyeh/News & Record

In 2006, Pass Miller was selling fish, chicken and rib dinners from the back of a truck parked across the Magnolia to help raise money for renovations.

• News & Record file

The segregation-era Magnolia House was a beacon to African Americans looking for a night’s sleep between Atlanta and Richmond, Va. Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Lena Horne — among many others — slept there as they traveled the East Coast.

• Nancy McLaughlin

Natalie Pass Miller moved back to Greensboro to take over the historic 1889 Magnolia House, which her family has worked on for decades. “It’s what you do.”

• H. Scott Hoffmann /News & Record

As Natalie Pass Miller has immersed herself in sharing the stories the Magnolia House holds as a way of building community support, her own life has taken on new meaning. “The Magnolia talks to me.”

• H. Scott Hoffmann /News & Record

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Nancy McLaughlin

GREENSBORO — Natalie Pass Miller loved her life in Atlanta working for the corporate sector.

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In 2006, Pass Miller was selling fish, chicken and rib dinners from the back of a truck parked across the Magnolia to help raise money for renovations.

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The segregation-era Magnolia House was a beacon to African Americans looking for a night’s sleep between Atlanta and Richmond, Va. Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Lena Horne — among many others — slept there as they traveled the East Coast.

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Natalie Pass Miller moved back to Greensboro to take over the historic 1889 Magnolia House, which her family has worked on for decades. “It’s what you do.”

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As Natalie Pass Miller has immersed herself in sharing the stories the Magnolia House holds as a way of building community support, her own life has taken on new meaning. “The Magnolia talks to me.”

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