![A life-size photograph of Michael Henry Adams’ father playing basketball dominates the room, alongside Barack Obama and a photo of Martin Luther King taken by Adams’ grandfather (above, right).](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/ARWHZRUADNESBISESEWYZJ4PUQ.png?auth=130450404025d7dea13e4024efbe8f707ec03f2ac08f26218c137562e3c15029&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Michael Henry Adams, the man who preserves Harlem: Speculators ‘thought that Black people would leave’
Adams is a kind of archaeologist of an endangered architecture; today his home is an unofficial museum of the history of the neighborhood
Adams is a kind of archaeologist of an endangered architecture; today his home is an unofficial museum of the history of the neighborhood