Abbey of New Clairvaux, Vina, California
Final installment of two year grant totaling $30,000 for the Abbey's Sacred Stones project. In the 1930s William Randolph Hearst acquired the 13th century Cistercian Spanish monastery of Santa Maria de Ovila with the intention of reconstructing the monastery on his properties in California. The monastery was dismantled and the stones were sent to San Francisco where they were stored pending transportation to a Julia Morgan designed structure on one of Hearst's ranches on the McCloud River in Northern California. With the depression, the project never proceeded. For many years the stones were stored behind the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park where they were vandalized and utilized in various construction projects in the Bay Area. In 1991, the remaining stones were given by the City of San Francisco to the Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California. The Abbey is reconstructing the chapter house portion of the monastery with the stones still available for use. This grant will assist in the process of reconstructing the chapter house which will be incorporated into the Abbey's religious buildings.
         $15,000.00

British Museum Development Trust, London, England
Grant to assist in the acquisition by the British Museum of the Mullanphy Collection. The collection contains art and material from North America (1775-1825), has been on loan to the British Museum since 1977 and represents an integral part of the Museum's North American collection. The collection includes many unique objects, for example, a skin map showing the territory between the Ohio, Mississippi, and Wabash Rivers and a superbly painted buffalo rawhide shield.
        $25,000.00

Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Final Installment of two year grant totaling $30,000 to assist in the Center's "Eeirdd Yr Uchelwyr" (The Poetry of the Nobility) project which involves a preparation of a series of volumes on the poetry of the Cywyddwyr, the most accomplished bardic wordsmiths of the 15th century. This project is a continuation of previous projects supported by the Foundation for the research and publication of material on medieval Welsh bards and poets and their works.
        $15,000.00

Galt Area Historical Society, Galt, California
Contribution to support the McFarland Living History Ranch project supported by the Galt Historical Society. The Miwok Indians will have an interpretive center as well as the Nature Conservancy which plans to provide special programs on conservation and natural science. The Living History Ranch will attract and offer an experience in pioneer history to over half a million children in schools in Northern California.
        $4,000.00

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 Annapolis Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland
Grant toward construction of the Annapolis History Center in the Historic District of Annapolis. The 1790 structure at 99 Main Street will become the education center for the history, architecture and archeology of Annapolis.
        $10,000.00

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

House Opera Productions, (Bay Area Video Coalition), San Francisco, California
Grant to support video project, The Insular Empire: America’s Pacific Islands. This grant will assist in the preparation of a documentary about the three remaining U.S. possessions in the Pacific, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. This grant will assist in the research and interviews and the resulting video will be distributed through PBS home video or U.C. Berkeley Extension, to ensure wide availability in schools and public libraries.
        $7,500.00

Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Grant to co-sponsor with The Huntington Library, the Early Modern British Seminar at the Huntington in January 2004. The conference will celebrate the history of the Tudor era and is in conjunction with an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
        $10,000.00

Institute of Nautical Archeology, College Station, Texas
Grant to support Persian War Shipwrecks archeological project. The Institute will conduct a survey of the waters off the Southeastern tip of Mount Athos Peninsula in Greece in search of Darius' Fleet that sank there in a violent storm in 492 B.C. as reported by Herodotus in his history. It is hoped that field work will discover the sites of the shipwrecks.
        $10,000.00

International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, Malibu, California
Final 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
Final 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
Grant to support the acquisition of Tyntesfield in Somerset, England. Tyntesfield is a Victorian gothic revival house which was received, with all of its contents, by the Trust in July 2002. The House, built between 1863-1866, is being prepared for opening to the public.
        $25,000.00

Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada
Grant for restoration program of historic opera house in Virginia City, Nevada constructed at the time of the silver mine boom in the mid 19th Century. The restored Opera House will be available for presentations and performing arts productions.
        $7,500.00

Saint George’s, Hanworth Park, Middlesex, England
Grants to support restoration project at Parish Church founded in 1293 and still containing part of the original construction. The Church was enlarged and remodeled in 1865 in Celtic Revival, Decorated Style and the current restoration will retain this style. The church building is more magnificent than would be expected for a Parish Church by reason of the proximity to the Royal Hunting Lodge at Hanworth and the sponsorship of various kings and queens of England.
        $7,500.00

Saint Mary Magdalen’s, Taunton, England
Grant to support the restoration of Saint Mary Magdalen Church in Taunton, Somerset. The church is considered one of the most important architecturally in England and has the tallest tower of any Parish Church in England.
        $6,000.00

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury, England
Grant to support Bronze age ceramics conservation for various ceramics and pots discovered in Wiltshire. Upon completion of the project, an exhibition will held at the museum in Salisbury and Devizes. The Salisbury conservation laboratory is known as the finest in England for Bronze Age artifact conservation.
        $10,000.00

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, San Francisco, California
Final 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 – the European grain trade, the Pacific Ocean lumber market and the Alaskan fish industry.
        $25,000.00

Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, George Washington University, Washington, D .C.
Grant to support the collection, accession and publication of Eleanor Roosevelt's written record. The material which contains over 250,000 pages, has been used to create a website for the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site and an electronic exhibit for the Eleanor Roosevelt Gallery of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.
        $5,000.00

Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Grant to assist in the acquisition of an x-ray florescence spectrometer (XRF). The spectrometer is a means of non-destructive elemental analysis and will be used to analyze silver, pewter, copper-based glass alloy, glass and ceramic pigmented objects and materials in the collections of Winterthur and sister institutions around the world, such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Fine Arts Museum of Houston.
        $15,000.00

TOTAL: $241,000.00