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Trump Administration Announces $12.8 Million in Save America’s Treasures Grants

The Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission has been awarded a Save America’s Treasures Grant to fund the conservation and restoration of Space Shuttle Pathfinder Orbiter Simulator.

Photo courtesy of US Space and Rocket Center.

News Release Date: August 20, 2020

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WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration announced today $12,800,000 in Save America’s Treasures grants to fund 42 preservation and conservation projects in 26 states. The National Park Service (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), awards these matching grants to support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections.

In 2019, Congress appropriated funding for Save America’s Treasures from the Historic Preservation Fund which uses revenue from federal oil leases to provide a broad range of preservation assistance without expending tax dollars. The program requires applicants to leverage project funds from other sources to match the grant money dollar for dollar. This award of $12.8 million will leverage more than $25.9 million in private and public investment.

“From conserving the papers and artifacts of William “Count” Basie to stabilizing a sandstone cliff dwelling of the Ancestral Puebloan culture, these grants enable educational institutions, museums, tribes, and local governments to preserve significant historic properties and collections for ongoing purposes of inspiration and education,” said Margaret Everson, Counselor to the Secretary, exercising the delegated authority of the NPS Director.

The Federal Save America’s Treasures program was established in 1998, and is carried out in partnership with IMLS, NEA, and NEH. From 1999 to 2018, the program provided $323 million to more than 1,200 projects to preserve and conserve nationally significant collections, artifacts, structures and sites. Requiring a dollar-for-dollar private match, the grants leveraged more than $479 million in private investment and supported more than 16,000 local jobs.

For a list of all previously funded Save America’s Treasures projects, please view The Impact of the Save America's Treasures Grant Program Map at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1623/hpf-in-action.htm

For more information about the grants and the Save America’s Treasures Program, please visit https://www.nps.gov/preservation-grants/sat/index.html.

Save America’s Treasures Awards:
 

State/City	Project	Grantee	Award Amount
Alabama Huntsville	Conservation and Restoration of Space Shuttle Pathfinder Orbiter Simulator	Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission	$500,000
California Riverside	Rehabilitation of Harada House National Historic Landmark	City of Riverside	$500,000
Colorado Towaoc	Casa Colorado Site Stabilization and Repair	Ute Mountain Ute Tribe	$125,000
Connecticut Mystic	Preserving and Accessing Mystic Seaport Museum Curatorial Files	Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.	$102,000
District of Columbia Washington	Union Station East Hall Scagliola Finish Restoration	Union Station Redevelopment Corporation	$342,500
District of Columbia Washington	Preservation of the Wurts Brothers Photography Collection	National Building Museum	$121,182
Florida Lakeland	Restoration of Polk Science Building Planetarium	Florida Southern College	$250,000
Florida Miami	Preservation of Historic Superintendent's House at Vizcaya	Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust, Inc.	$500,000
Illinois Champaign	Preserving the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$115,237
Indiana West Lafayette	Preservation of Samara, the John E. and Catherine E. Christian House	Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana	$500,000
Indiana Columbus	Repair and Restoration of the First Christian Church Tower	Southern Indiana Housing and Community Development Corp	$500,000
Indiana Indianapolis	Planning for Sustainable Collections Improvements	The Children's Museum of Indianapolis	$124,642
Kentucky Lexington	Building Improvements to the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology Collections Center	University of Kentucky Research Foundation	$445,327
Louisiana New Orleans	Preservation of the McDonogh 19 Elementary School Cafeteria	Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc.	$500,000
Maine New Castle	Frances Perkins Homestead Preservation Project	Frances Perkins Center	$500,000
Maryland St. Mary's City	Conserving High Priority Artifacts at Historic St. Mary's City	State of Maryland, dba Historic St. Mary's City Commission	$121,520
Maryland Baltimore	Conservation of the Maryland Historical Society Daguerreotype Collection	Maryland Historical Society	$120,875
Massachusetts Boston	Hamilton House Preservation and Resiliency Project	Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities	$165,000
Missouri Excelsior Springs	Preservation of the Historic Hall of Waters	City of Excelsior Springs	$500,000
Nevada Ely	Repair of Nevada Northern Railway Locomotive #40	Nevada Northern Railway Foundation, Inc.	$487,160
New Jersey Princeton	Preservation of Morven Historic Home	Historic Morven, Inc.	$210,000
New Jersey Newark	Conserving the Count Basie Papers and Artifacts	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Newark	$443,500
New Mexico Santa Fe	Preservation of Los Luceros Historic Site	Museum of New Mexico Foundation	$451,252
New York New York	Preserving the Fashion Institute of Technology Records from the Garment District	Fashion Institute of Technology	$83,137
New York Oswego	John F. Nash Tugboat (LT-5) Preservation Project	H. Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego	$365,593
New York Syracuse	Gustav Stickley House Restoration	Greater Syracuse Land Bank	$500,000
New York New York	Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections	YIVO Institute for Jewish Research	$119,433
New York Long Island City	Conservation and Digitization of Henry Darger Collection Materials	American Folk Art Museum	$156,700
New York Manlius	Canal Society of New York State Collections Inventory and Rehousing	Canal Society of New York State	$171,000
Ohio Richfield	US Navy Submarine USS Cod (SS 224) Restoration	Cleveland Coordinating Committee for Cod, Inc.	$395,050
Ohio Cincinnati	Taft Museum of Art Rehabilitation	Taft Museum of Art	$500,000
Pennsylvania Philadelphia	Stabilization Cellblocks 13 and 14 of Eastern State Penitentiary	Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc.	$498,717
Pennsylvania Johnstown	Johnstown Incline Restoration Project	Cambria County Transit Authority	$500,000
Pennsylvania Philadelphia	Exterior Preservation of Wyck House	Wyck Association	$209,202
Pennsylvania Philadelphia	Manuscripts of the Muslim World at the Free Library of Philadelphia	Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation	$100,000
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	Wilkinsburg Borough's WPA Mural and Grand Army of the Republic Textiles	Center for Civic Arts	$25,000
Texas San Antonio	Army Medical Department Museum Public Access and Modernization	Army Medical Department Museum Foundation, Inc.	$480,000
Utah Logan	Saving the Keller Collection at the Utah State University Museum of Anthropology	Utah State University	$74,464
Vermont St. Johnsbury	Preservation of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium	Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium	$458,400
Virginia Hampton	Conservation of the Samuel Chapman Armstrong Letter Books	Hampton University	$249,898
Washington Gig Harbor	Conserving the 1925 fishing vessel Shenandoah	Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Society	$130,453
Wyoming Cheyenne	Vore Buffalo Jump Collection Conservation and Digitization	Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources	$157,758
Total Awards			$12,800,000

 

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