The Union Foundation was awarded a $165,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior National Park Service through the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to digitize cemetery records. The objective of the grant is to complete a collections conservation project that will digitize records from the Union Baptist Cemetery and United American Cemetery located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant period runs from June 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026. The Historic Preservation...
The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $500,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grant to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH. The funds will be used for a collections conservation project, including collection imaging and expansion of the center's collection storage space. This grant is part of the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904), which provides grants to assist in the identification, evaluation, and...
This $8,994,272 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Famicos Foundation, a non-profit organization and community development corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the St. Marks Presbyterian Church, a historic property listed or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The project period runs from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The grant...
This $826,590 Project Grant was awarded by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to 120 East State, a nonprofit organization in Trenton, New Jersey. The grant funding will support the physical preservation of historic markers and a wrought-iron perimeter fence at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This award is part of the Semiquincentennial Grant Program, which provides funding...
This $121,393 project grant from the National Park Service will fund the Ohio Historical Society to prepare two new National Register of Historic Places nominations and amend an existing nomination. The nominations will help diversify listings to include underrepresented communities as intended under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). Specifically, the Ohio Historical Society will complete nominations for the West Federal YMCA and Fellowship Missionary Baptist...
This federal Project Grant award of $769,400 was issued on June 1, 2024 by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin, Ohio by the nonprofit Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society. The project involves architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical preservation of this historic property listed on the National...
The Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs a $1,228,178 Project Grant under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). The grant funding will support preservation activities at the Cooch's Bridge Historic Site in Newark, Delaware, focusing on safety and accessibility improvements including electrical and sewage upgrades, ADA compliance, and preservation of the site's interior and exterior...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) will support the Northeast Neighborhood Association, Inc. in Harrisonburg, VA. The funding will be used to document, preserve, and interpret the culturally significant Dallard-Newman House, a historic property listed on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Specific project activities may include architectural services,...
This $726,879 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) supports the rehabilitation of the Union Bethel AME Church in Great Falls, Montana. The grant, awarded to the Montana Historical Society, will fund architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical preservation activities to restore this historic property. The project aims to protect and document an important site...
The National Park Service awarded a $910,000 Project Grant under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Cliquepoint Data Foundation to fund rehabilitation of the Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute Building in Cleveland, Ohio. The 1904 building is Cleveland's only remaining settlement house and will be rehabilitated through this funding to enable its continued use as a community center. As one of the few remaining tangible remnants of Cleveland's settlement...