The National Park Service, through the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929), awarded a $3,707,345 project grant to the St. Bartholomew's Conservancy Inc. in New York City. The grant will fund the preservation and conservation of the Stanford White-designed Romanesque triple portal, a nationally significant architectural and artistic feature of St. Bartholomew's Church. The project will address critical deterioration to the portal's Cipollino marble columns, iconographic...
This $1,560,000 Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program is designed to mitigate the threat of a dome collapse at the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Asheville, North Carolina. The key project activities include: Repairing and reinforcing the steel tension rings embedded in the masonry cornice to stabilize the dome structure Redesigning the stormwater collection system to eliminate future water infiltration and damage Rebuilding and repairing the...
This $499,128 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior National Park Service will support needed repairs and architectural assessments of the Historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus, Georgia. Funded by the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program, the award will allow the Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc. to conduct a full structural assessment of the landmark building designed by Louis H. Persley, the first African American registered architect in...
This federal Project Grant award of $496,000.00 was provided by the National Park Service, under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), to the nonprofit organization Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc. The grant funding will support structural repairs and preservation efforts for the historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus, Georgia. The project scope includes architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service will fund repairs and upgrades to the historic St. Augustine's University Chapel in Raleigh, North Carolina. Awarded on September 1, 2022 under the Preservation of Historic Structures on the Campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities program (CFDA 15.932), the grant will support replacement of the chapel roof, electrical and plumbing system upgrades, and ADA-compliant restroom installations. As the oldest extant building on...
This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) will support the rehabilitation and preservation of the historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus, Georgia. The grant recipient, Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc., a nonprofit organization, will use the funding to conduct architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical preservation work on the structure....
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $2,890,000 Save America's Treasures (SAT) grant (CFDA 15.929) to the Highland Green Foundation, Inc. for a physical preservation project to mitigate structural deterioration of the character-defining dalle de verre (structural glass) at the First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut. The SAT program provides matching grants to protect nationally significant historic properties and cultural collections. This award, with an anticipated completion...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $750,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) project grant to Trinity United Methodist Church, a non-profit organization located in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The grant will fund window repairs, brick repointing, roof improvements, and address water damage and safety issues at the historic church site from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. This is the third major grant award totaling $1.95M that Trinity United...
The Federal Project Grant award of $3,000,000 provided to the Historic Brown Chapel AME Church Preservation Society Inc. is funded through the National Park Service's (NPS) Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929). This grant will support structural repairs, window repairs, electrical improvements, and HVAC upgrades to the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, a nationally significant civil rights landmark. The grant aims to preserve and conserve this historic property, which...
This $1,348,036 federal Project Grant award, funded through the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), supports the stabilization and preservation of a historic 1883 carriage house and 1880 stable in Milton, Massachusetts. The award recipient, the Captain Forbes House Museum, will use the funds to undertake critical structural repairs, exterior restoration work, and infrastructure upgrades to these two historic buildings. Key activities include reinforcing...