National Park Service and Partners Announce $12.6 Million in Save America's Treasures Grants

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:

• Conservation of sound recordings from Alexander Graham Bell at the Smithsonian

• Restoration of Willa Cather's childhood home in Nebraska

• Rehabilitation of the National Soldiers' Home in Wisconsin

• 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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