Project Grant SIN65020GR0074

The $1,500,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program will fund the conservation and stabilization of the historic swimming pool grotto at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens National Historic Landmark in Miami, Florida. The grant will support the repair and stabilization of the grotto's supporting structures, the reattachment of a detached panel, and the full conservation treatment of the grotto's distinctive Robert W. Chanler underwater mural...

The National Park Service awarded Auburn University a $499,799 Project Grant under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to stabilize and rehabilitate the Tankersley Rosenwald School located in Hope Hull, Alabama. The work will focus on addressing structural issues in the building, including a significant roof collapse, to preserve the historic property. Auburn University will complete the exterior rehabilitation work by August 2025. Additionally, Georgia Tech...

This $556,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Park Service under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) federal grant program. The funding will support preservation and conservation work on the nationally significant Maine State Building owned by the Poland Spring Preservation Society, a non-profit organization. Specifically, the grant will provide assistance for critical roof repairs to this historic structure. The award has a performance period from August 1, 2024 to September...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded $250,637 to the Aga Khan Foundation under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) Project Grant. The grant will support the Aga Khan Foundation's project "CONSERVATION OF 16TH CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUGHAL EMPEROR HUMAYUN IN NEW DELHI" from September 30, 2021 through March 31, 2023. As part of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program, which...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded $557,419 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Atlanta Preservation Center, Inc. for emergency preservation work at the 1911 English Avenue School in Atlanta, Georgia. The project grant will support essential stabilization and weatherization of the historic structure's roof, gutters, scuppers and brick walls. It will also fund biological material abatement on the masonry and repairs to...

This federal Project Grant award of $528,011 from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) will enable Oakland University's Meadow Brook Hall to undertake critical preservation work to safeguard the historic house museum and its significant art and artifact collections. The key project components include: 1) conservation of 16 original stained glass windows, 2) installation of UV-filtering window sashes in 136 windows, and 3) installation of light-reducing...

The Greater Hudson Heritage Network received a $538,398 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to conserve 35 historical objects from the collections of 10 small and mid-size museums in New York State. The project will employ a panel of conservators to provide conservation treatments for the selected objects and conduct community engagement conservation workshops at each participating museum. The workshops will...

The National Park Service, through the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), awarded a $1,500,000 project grant to the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities (dba Telluride Arts) to support Phase II of the restoration of the historic Telluride Transfer Warehouse. The grant funds will be used for comprehensive masonry reinforcement and stabilization efforts to preserve the existing 117-year-old sandstone walls of the building. This includes repointing mortar joints, anchoring...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Opus 40 Inc. a $600,000 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to restore and repair the central bluestone sculpture at Opus 40, a 55-acre sculpture park and nationally significant historic site located in Saugerties, New York. Constructed over 40 years within an abandoned quarry, the central sculpture consists of undulating ramps, paths, platforms, grottos, pools, and stairs formed from millions...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $830,862 Project Grant to the NJ Highlands Council under the Highlands Conservation Program (CFDA 15.667). The grant funding will support the future acquisition of property located within an under-resourced, under-served community in the Highlands region of New Jersey. The NJ Highlands Council, a state government planning commission, will utilize this grant along with its ongoing Regional Open Space and Recreation...