WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced $12.6 million in Save America’s Treasures grants to assist funding 41 preservation and conservation projects in 23 states.
The NPS, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), awarded these matching grants to support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections through the Save America’s Treasures program.
“Save America’s Treasures helps preserve nationally significant historic properties and collections that convey our nation's rich heritage to future generations of Americans," said U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. “This $12.6 million in funding will leverage more than $22 million in private and public investment for preservation and conservation projects without spending taxpayers' money."
“Through these competitive matching grants, the National Park Service and our federal, state, tribal, local government, and nonprofit partners are helping communities preserve some of our nation’s most important historic places and collections," said National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith. "By doing so we are saving these sites and stories for future generations."
The Federal Save America’s Treasures program was established in 1998, and is carried out in partnership with IMLS, NEA, and NEH with the objective of preserving nationally significant historic properties and museum collections for future generations of Americans to experience, learn from, and enjoy.
From 1999 to 2017, more than 1,300 projects received $328 million to provide preservation and conservation work on nationally significant collections, artifacts, structures and sites. Requiring a dollar-for-dollar private match, these grants leveraged more than $377 million in private investment, and contributed more than 16,000 jobs to local and state economies.
In 2018, Congress appropriated funding for Save America’s Treasures from the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), which uses revenue from federal oil leases to provide assistance for a broad range of preservation assistance without expending tax dollars. The current disbursement of awards is from the 2018 appropriation.
The projects funded by the 2018 appropriation include:
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Conservation of sound recordings from Alexander Graham Bell at the Smithsonian
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Restoration of Willa Cather’s childhood home in Nebraska
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Rehabilitation of the National Soldiers’ Home in Wisconsin
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Preservation of the Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega in New Mexico
The Save America’s Treasures program requires applicants to leverage project funds from other sources to “match" the grant money, which is awarded after a competitive review of project proposals. Buildings and collections which have previously received Save America’s Treasures grants are not eligible to receive a second grant for the same project.
For a list of all previously funded Save America’s Treasures projects, please view the SAT Impact Map at go.nps.gov/satmap.
For more information about the grants and the Save America’s Treasures Program, please visit http://go.nps.gov/sat. An additional $13 million will be available in FY2019 funding in the fall of 2019.
National Save America’s Treasures Program Grant Recipients
State
Project Title
Grantee
Funded Amount
Alaska
Fairbanks
Kobuk River Collection Rehousing and Stabilization
University of Alaska Fairbanks
$119,585.00
California
Berkeley
Conservation of The Hawk for Peace, a Stabile by Alexander Calder
Regents of the University of California
$109,576.00
California
Los Angeles
Restoration of Residence A at the Aline Barnsdall Complex
Project Restore
$500,000.00
California
Monterey
Repair of the First Theatre in Monterey
Monterey State Historic Park Association
$194,360.00
California
San Diego
Restoration of the Botanical Building Welcome Gallery
Balboa Park Conservancy
$257,668.00
California
San Francisco
Conservation of the Lost New Deal Frescos of San Francisco's Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
$94,000.00
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Conservation of Museum Panoramic and Oversized Photographs
Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy
$95,500.00
Washington DC
Saving Sound recordings from Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory
Smithsonian Institution
$488,150.00
Florida
Gainesville
Conservation of Artifacts and Records from 17th Century Franciscan Mission Site of San Juan del Puerto
University of Florida
$94,734.00
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Conservation of the Wasden Archeological Collection Representing 15,000 Years of Native American Occupation on the Snake River Plain
Museum of Idaho
$172,103.00
Iowa
Amana
Upper South Amana Hotel Restoration
Amana Colonies Historical Site
$131,500.00
Iowa
Des Moines
Assessing and Repairing 4 Extant Buildings at Fort Atkinson Historic District
Iowa
$497,500.00
Maine
Rockland
Restoration of Olson House, Site of American Artist Andrew Wyeth’s Painting, Christina’s World
William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum
$188,208.00
Massachusetts
Boston
Preservation, Conservation and Digitization of Kennedy Family Collection, Scrapbooks and Albums
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Inc.
$500,000.00
Massachusetts
Boston
Preservation of the Nantucket Lightship/LV-112
United States Lightship Museum, Inc.
$487,500.00
Mississippi
Mound Bayou
Isaiah T. Montgomery House Restoration
Mississippi Heritage Trust, Inc.
$500,000.00
Mississippi
Oxford
University of Mississippi Curation of Archaeological Materials and Associated Records
The University of Mississippi
$500,000.00
Nebraska
Red Cloud
Restoring Willa Cather's Childhood Home
The Willa Cather Foundation
$415,000.00
New Jersey
Livingston
Rehabilitation of the Adirondack Great Camp, Eagle Island
Eagle Island, Inc.
$320,775.00
New Mexico
Santa Clara
Fort Bayard Museum and Education Building Restoration
The Village of Santa Clara
$125,000.00
New Mexico
Chimayo
Conservation and Preservation of the Casita Desiderio y Pablita Ortega
Cornerstones Community Partnerships
$144,911.00
New York
Albany
Asbestos Abatement and Remediation aboard USS SLATER
Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
$176,000.00
New York
Buffalo
Richardson Olmsted Campus Roofing Repairs
Richardson Center Corporation
$400,000.00
New York
New York City
Conservation of Carnegie Hall Architectural Drawings Collection
Carnegie Hall Corporation
$92,000.00
New York
New York City
Conservation of the New York Historical Society's Beekman Family Coach
New-York Historical Society
$116,467.00
New York
Rochester
Eastman Museum Colonnade Restoration Project
George Eastman Museum
$498,815.00
New York
Ticonderoga
Restoration of Fort Ticonderoga's North Demi-lune
The Fort Ticonderoga Association
$465,000.00
North Carolina
Asheville
Black Mountain College Collection Conservation
Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
$196,935.00
Ohio
Mt. Pleasant
Preservation of the Free Labor Store/Benjamin Lundy House
Ohio Historical Society
$228,160.00
Ohio
Warren
Perkins Historical Property Restoration Project
City of Warren, Ohio
$500,000.00
Pennsylvania
Doylestown
Preservation of 61 (non-deed) Historical Record Books Starting in 1785
The County of Bucks
$125,000.00
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
August Wilson House Preservation Project
Duquesne University
$499,628.00
Rhode Island
Newport
Marble House Roof Restoration
The Preservation Society of Newport County
$500,000.00
Virginia
Irvington
Remediation of Rising Damp at Historic Christ Church
Foundation for Historic Christ Church, Inc.
$337,500.00
Virginia
Petersburg
Structural Repairs, Moisture Mitigation, and Re-roofing of the Petersburg Exchange Building
Historic Petersburg Foundation
$350,000.00
Washington
Port Townsend
Rehabilitation of Fort Worden Building 305 (Historic Quartermasters Office & Storehouse)
Fort Worden Foundation
$500,000.00
Washington
Seattle
Historic Concrete Rehabilitation of the Georgetown Steam Plant
Seattle City Light
$500,000.00
West Virginia
Charlestown
Systems update for the home of Revolutionary Colonel Charles Washington
Friends of Happy Retreat
$132,500.00
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Renovation of “Old Main" (Building 2) National Soldiers Home Residences
Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee
$500,000.00
Wisconsin
Richland Center
Preservation of the A.D. German Warehouse
A.D. German Warehouse Conservancy, Inc.
$360,250.00
Wyoming
Laramie
Digital Recordation of Site Records and Artifacts Recovered from the Hell Gap NHL Archeological Site
University of Wyoming
$260,675.00
Total Awards
$12,675,000.00
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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
