Project Grant PF24969817

Federal Grant Award Summary The Seward House Museum (SHM) received a $722,600 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of January 31, 2028. The museum will collaborate with a mechanical engineering firm and historic preservation architects to design and install a new climate control system for the 208-year-old historic house located in Auburn, New York. The system...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Level II grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia, PA. The grant funding will be used to install a sustainable new HVAC system in the library wing and integrate a direct digital control (DDC) system across the site's HVAC...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $344,315 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. to create a sustainable preservation media storage environment. The funding will support the purchase and installation of a walk-in freezer and HVAC system as part of a larger construction project to house the university's millions of unique media assets held by its Special...

This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Park Service's (NPS) Save America's Treasures program, awarded to the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) in Bladensburg, MD, will fund repairs and improvements to the George Washington House. The project will address door, window, floor, brick, and siding repairs, as well as safety and security upgrades to this historically significant property. The project period is from September 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The Save America's Treasures...

The Tudor Place Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, received a $725,441 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the foundation's efforts to improve the management and care of its collection and archive through the purchase and installation of high-quality storage equipment. The project consolidates over 30 dispersed storage locations into a single purpose-built...

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) received a $1,550,000 Project Grant award from the National Park Service through the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program. The grant will fund the replacement of the HVAC system in PAFA's historic landmark building, which houses its collection of 16,000 works of American art dating from the 18th century to today. The project aims to mitigate immediate and future risks to the art collection by improving temperature, humidity, and leak...

The Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust was awarded a $672,374.50 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to install a fire suppression system at the Arch Street Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia. The grant funding will be used to install sprinkler pipes throughout the building's crawlspace, basement, floors, and attic to safeguard the historic site from fire risk and improve visitor safety. This project...

The Trustees of Reservations will use a $1,095,117 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service to repair the north elevation and adjoining west portico of the Great House, the centerpiece of the 165-acre Crane Estate National Historic Landmark in Ipswich, MA. Funded through the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), which provides matching grants for preservation and conservation of nationally significant historic structures, the project will address...

This Project Grant, awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301), provides $229,448 to the Shelburne Museum, Incorporated in Shelburne, Vermont. Through this award, the museum will conduct conservation surveys of the collections housed in the Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building, which includes Impressionist paintings, Asian art, American and English decorative arts, and historic interiors. The museum will hire a...

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...