The United Order of Tents , a Bedford-Stuyvesant Black women's aid society, will commence on the renovation a 19th-century mansion at 87 MacDonough St., restoring a deteriorated structure that will become a symbolic homecoming, according to Brownstoner .

Members of the Order’s Eastern District #3, many dressed in the organization’s signature purple, stood before community partners, neighbors and elected officials in October to commemorate what they described as a milestone of survival, sisterhood and steadfast faith in preservation, the news site reported.

“It’s essential that we have third spaces that support the community in multiple endeavors, and that’s the Tents mission," member Erica Buddington said. "We were founded to support community through mutual aid and we’re still doi

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