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Alaska
State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Grant
to support restoration/conservation of an Athabascan birch
bark canoe from the Museum's collection. The conservation
will be under the direction of a native canoe builder and
this grant will provide for a conservation student to assist
in the project.
$5,000.00
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
Williamsburg, Virginia
Second installment of three-year grant totaling $120,000.00
to reorganize the Williamsburg interpretative program for
the historic area to develop a new "Becoming American"
curriculum.
$40,000.00
Copperopolis Community Center,
Copperopolis, California
Grant to support repairs for historic church in Copperopolis
which has been converted to use as a community center for
this gold rush town in the Sierra Foothills. The Foundation
has supported various projects in the past for the restoration
and preservation of the building and its use as a community
center.
$3,000.00
Documents
of the Coronado Expedition
(New Mexico Highlands University),
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Grant
to support research of relevant original documents in Spain,
Mexico and United States relating to the Coronado Expedition
of 1540-42 in Southwestern United States. After the
documents have been assembled they will be published in a
Spanish/English text volume with the support of the National
Historical Records and Publications Commission.
$10,000.00
English
Heritage, London, England
Third
installment of four year grant totaling $100,000.00 to establish
an exhibition area for Whitby Abbey, an historic medieval
abbey in Yorkshire, and to present the story of the town of
Whitby from its earliest Saxon times through the Viking era,
the medieval era and into the present day. Whitby was
the birth place and home of Captain James Cook, the South
Seas explorer, and the setting of the novel Dracula.
In addition, the abbey was used as a target for gunfire by
German warships during World War I. The exhibition will
be established in a Jacobean banqueting hall on an estate
adjacent to the abbey itself and will be prepared by Past
Forward, a prominent English interpretive designer.
$25,000.00
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco,
California
First installment of two year grant totaling $50,000.00
to fabricate and install statues of St. Mark and St.
Matthew in the apse of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. There
are four niches in the apse which were designed for statues
of the four evangelists. Statues of St. Luke and St.
John were completed and installed before work was halted on
Grace Cathedral during the depression of the 1930s. The
proposed statues will complete the original plan of the apse
statuary.
$25,000.00
Hangtown's Gold Bug Park,
Inc., Placerville, California
Continued support for the interpretive program at the
award winning Gold Bug Park, a California historical park
of the gold rush era.
$7,500.00
Historic Churches Preservation
Trust, London, England
Grant to support conservation and preservation projects
at rural churches in England. The funds will be used
as part of a matching program to encourage local support to
preserve historic churches, many of whose congregations have
been reduced to very small numbers due to population shifts
since the time of the church's construction in the medieval
era.
$10,000.00
Historic Mt. Vernon, Mt.
Vernon, Virginia
Third installment of four year grant totaling $500,000.00
for the construction of an exhibition gallery in the new visitors
center at George Washington=s Mt. Vernon. The gallery,
which will be named for the Foundation in recognition of the
grant, will be used for exhibitions devoted to the life and
times of George Washington and especially his activities at
Mt. Vernon.
$125,000.00
Hoghton
Tower Preservation Trust, Lancashire, England
Second
installment of three year grant totaling $45,000.00 to assist
in the restoration of the roofs of the buildings surrounding
the inner courtyard at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire.
The Foundation has supported several restoration and conservation
projects at Hoghton Tower and this current grant supports
the continuing restoration of this historic house.
$15,000.00
International
Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Malibu, California
Third
installment of five year grant totaling $42,000.00 for field
work and research for the archeological projects at Mozan/Urkesh
in Syria.
$6,000.00
Mission San Jose, Mission
San Jose, California
Second installment of four year grant totaling $80,000.00
to assist in the seismic retrofitting of the Mission's museum
building, originally constructed in 1810 as Mission San Jose=s
administrative wing. The building is the oldest building
in Alameda County and is a state designated historical landmark. The
Foundation supported Phase I of the restoration program at
the Mission which was the successful reconstruction of the
original adobe mission church which had been destroyed by
an earthquake in 1868.
$20,000.00
National
Trust, London, England
Third
Installment of four-year Grant totaling $500,000.00 for the
conservation of the collection of embroideries at Hardwick
Hall in Derbyshire. The collection numbers over 200
items and dates predominantly from between 1580 and 1610 and
is considered to be most important collection in the Western
world. A 30 year study of the embroideries has been completed
through the Victoria and Albert Museum which will now direct
the conservation to ensure that the collection is preserved
for the future. The collection will be cleaned and repaired
at the National Trust Textile Conservation Center at Blickling
and the project will be phased over the four year period.
$125,000.00
National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Washington, D.C.
Second installment of three year grant totaling $120,000.00
to assist in funding the position of Director of Interpretation
and Education in the Stewardship of Historic Sites Department
of the National Trust. The Foundation has supported
projects over the past 13 years to develop and strengthen
the Stewardship of Historic Sites Department and this grant
will assist in realizing the full potential of this Department.
The Department creates and implements public programs that
interpret the Trust's sites in a broad context of American
history and culture and engages a diverse audience of adults,
families and school children.
$40,000.00
National Trust for Scotland,
Edinburgh, Scotland
Final installment of two year grant totaling $30,000.00
for the restoration program of the Trust at Newhailes, the
Dalrymple home in East Lothian on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
The house which was constructed over a period of 100 years
commencing in 1686 has been successfully restored through
fund raising appeals by the National Trust. The Foundation's
grant will assist in the development of an interpretive program
about the house, its history and architecture and the Dalrymple
family and their contributions over many generations to Scottish
affairs.
$15,000.00
Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Virginia
Second
installment of three-year grant totaling $45,000.00 in further
support of the Institute's book publication program which
has been supported for many years by the Foundation.
The Institute publishes works in early American history and
assists writers and scholars in preparing the books.
The Institute scope also encompasses the Caribbean, Latin
America, the British Isles, Europe and Africa insofar as the
histories and cultures of these places are relevant to the
mainland of North America from 1500 to 1815.
$15,000.00
San Francisco Maritime National
Park Association,
San Francisco, CA
First installment of three year grant totaling $75,000.00
to prepare a new interpretive exhibit on the historic sailing
ship Balclutha at the Hyde Street pier in San Francisco.
The new 'Tween Deck" interpretive exhibit focuses on
conveying the look and feel of a sailing ship transporting
cargo to and from San Francisco. The functional exhibition
space is approximately 6,000 square feet and will portray
each of the three aspects of the Balclutha's career as a cargo
carrier B the European grain trade, the Pacific Ocean lumber
market and the Alaskan fish industry.
$25,000.00
Smartsville
Church Restoration Fund,
Smartsville, California
Grant
to assist in the restoration of historic former Catholic church
in Smartsville, California, an historic Sierra Foothills community.
Once the restoration is completed, the church will be used
as a community center for Smartsville.
$5,000.00
Society for International
Communication,
Gallatin Gateway, Montana
Grant to support teaching and transcribing oral histories
of women of the Purepecha, an ethnic group of native Mexican
people who, since pre-hispanic time, have lived on the shores
and islands of Lake Patzcuaro in the high plateaus of the
Meseta Tarasca, Mexico. Except for a few books written
by social anthropologists, there is little historical work
with reference to the contemporary Purepecha culture.
A number of interviews have been completed and others are
contemplated drawing upon childhood memories of defining moments
in Purepecha life and culture such as the Mexican Revolution
and the eruption of the volcano Paricutin. A tri-lingual
book, written in Purepecha, Spanish and English will be published
of the histories of the elderly women of the community.
$5,000.00
St.
Albert Priory, Oakland, California
Grant
to support the cataloging and display of the archives of the
Western Dominican Province where records and documents include
letters from Spanish missionaries, as well as letters and
documents of the first bishop of San Francisco, Joseph Alemany,
who was a Dominican and founder of the Dominican order on
the West Coast.
$5,000.00
Textile Conservation Center,
Winchester, England
Second installment of three year grant totaling $30,000.00
to support the Deliberately Concealed Garments project at
the University of Southampton, Winchester campus. In
construction of medieval buildings there was a practice of
concealing garments and shoes in the walls and foundations
of buildings to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck
and fortune to the inhabitants. A number of these garments
have been located as buildings have been torn down or restored
and this project collects the garments, conserves them, describes
them and relates them to the medieval culture in England.
$10,000.00
University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana
First installment of two year grant totaling $50,000.00
to support continued microfilming and cataloging of the contents
of the Ambrosia Library in Milan. The Foundation has
supported this project with several grants over the past 20
years and the current grant will focus on the Ambrosiana drawings
collection and will support graduate students and others in
their cataloging of the collection and making the same available
on the Web and otherwise for medieval scholars.
$25,000.00
University of Hawaii at
Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Grant for 2002 field work of maritime archeology project
involving sunken Civil War era ships at Pohnahtik Harbor,
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. The resulting
report will complete the site identification of whaling ships
sunk by the Confederate raider Shenandoah in April, 1865 and
will complete the documentation for submission for designation
of the area as a national historic landmark. This initial
funding for the project was received from the National
Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program.
The Shenandoah destroyed the New England whaling fleet in
a raid through the Pacific ocean in the spring of 1865.
The intention was to encourage affected New England merchants
and ship owners to put pressure on the Union government to
make peace with the Confederacy. Ironically, the sinking of
the ships in Pohnapei and elsewhere in the Pacific occurred
after Lee's surrender and was of no effect on the outcome
of the Civil War.
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ON THIS GRANT)
$15,020.00
Total:
$576,520.00
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