Preserving American Historical Treasures

Historic Preservation Matching Grants Awarded

The 1772 Foundation has announced the award of matching grants for historic preservation totaling $ 570,000 to the following Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island organizations.

Connecticut Matching Grant Recipients
(photo: Roseland Cottage)       
Avery Memorial Association - Ebenezer Avery House 9,000
Bristol Historical Society 13,500
Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution - Trumbull House 2,700
Connecticut Historical Society - Curtis H. Veeder House 13,500
Coventry Historical Society - Strong-Porter House 1,300
Denison Society - Denison Homestead 13,500
Historic New England - Roseland Cottage 13,500
Keeler Tavern Preservation Society 13,500
Mystic Seaport Museum - New Shoreham Life-Saving Station 10,500
New Haven Museum 13,500
Noah Webster House Foundation 13,500
Portland Historical Society - White-Overton-Callander House 13,500
Preserve New Fairfield, Inc. - Hubbell House and Parsonage 13,500
Rockville Public Library 4,500
Salmon Brook Historical Society - Abijah Rowe House 13,500
Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum 13,500
Windsor Historical Society - Jacob and Abigail Strong House 13,500

                                                                                                                                                                     

New Jersey Matching Grant Recipients  
(photo:  The Edward Compton House)
Barrow Mansion Development Corporation 15,000
Cape May Stage 15,000
Evergreen Cemetery 7,665
Greater Newark Conservancy - Oheb Shalom Synagogue 15,000
Historic Cold Spring Village - John Finley Blacksmith Shop and Ewing Douglass House 6,600
Historical Society of Princeton - Bainbridge House 9,000
HIstorical Society of Rockaway Township - Ford-Faesch Ironmaster's Manor House 3,285
Mauricetown Historical Society - Edward Compton House, Cookhouse, and Samuel Compton House 15,000
Montclair Historical Society - Clark and Crane Houses 4,000
Morris County Historical Society - Acorn Hall 1,450
Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum - Hangar #1 15,000
Pinelands Preservation Alliance - Louden Barn at Bishop Farmstead 15,000
Preservation New Jersey - 1867 Sanctuary 15,000
Ralston Cider Mill 15,000
Reeves-Reed Arboretum - Carriage House 15,000
Van Harlingen Historical Society - Dirck Gulick House 8,000
Waldwick Community Alliance - Waldwick Train Station 15,000

 

Rhode Island Matching Grant Recipients
(photo:  The Eleazer Arnold House)
Blackstone Valley Historical Society 14,000
Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum 14,400
Block Island Historical Society - Woonsocket House 11,550
Bristol Art Museum - Linden Place Carriage House 7,500
Burrillville Historical and Preservation Society - Bridgeton School 7,900
Chorus of Westerly 13,600
Exeter Historical Association - Hall School House 11,550
Friends of Linden Place 14,400
Historic New England - Eleazer Arnold House 13,600
House of Hope - Wilbur Homestead 8,500
Memorial and Library Association 11,300
Mount Hope Farm 6,900
Preserve Rhode Island - Gov. Henry Lippitt House Museum 14,400
Providence Preservation Society - Old Brick School House 14,400
Smithfield Preservaton Society - Smithfield Exchange Bank 700
The Steel Yard - North Studio 13,600
Willett Free Library 11,700