One hundred years after John Coltrane's birth, the Philadelphia row house where he lived and labored through the turbulent 1950s is being consecrated as a cultural heritage site — a recognition that the places where artists become themselves are as worthy of preservation as the works they leave behind. Ravi Coltrane, himself a saxophonist carrying his father's musical lineage, is leading the effort to transform the modest home into a living center for education, performance, and community. It is a gesture that asks us to consider not only the genius we celebrate, but the quiet, struggling year