2015-2016 Special Projects Grants Awarded
Amount
Grantee
Project
State
Historic Preservation: $156,070
$
10,000
Albany County Historical
Association
1798 Ten Broeck Mansion: repair water damage to
bedroom/bath walls, windows, frames; stabilize
chimney area
NY
$
2,453
Avery House and Museum
1750 Ebenezer Avery House: create/install
protective shades over windows to protect
museum artifacts and wall coverings
CT
$
10,000
Bristol Historical Association, Inc.
Restore 1790 Robert Preston Home interior:
replace interior doors, replaster walls, repair 4
fireplace interiors/hearths, mantels
VA
$
10,000
Chinkchewunska Chapter, NSDAR
Restore exterior of Rev Elias Van
Bunschooten Museum
NJ
$
8,625
Christ Church Preservation Trust
Christ Church Burial Ground where 5 signers of
Declaration of Independence are buried:
restore/preserve main and rear gates (aesthetics
and security) by architectural conservation firm
PA
$
8,725
Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter,
NSDAR
1774 "The Oaks" chapter house: install
columns/footings, moisture and odor barrier,
gravel crawl space under house
MA
$
10,000
Corporation for Jefferson Poplar
Forest
1809 Thos Jefferson's octagonal retreat house:
replace 10 historically accurate interior doors &
hardware
VA
$
10,000
$
4,976
$
1,550
Essex National Heritage Commission
Friends of the Cannonball House,
Inc.
1821 Bakers Island Lighthouse: restore
Repair and restore original 1853 Doric porch
column
MA
GA
Grand Canyon Chapter, NSDAR
Replace historic Stoneman Trail marker from
wood to granite, retaining bronze plaque
AZ
$
9,000
Hull House Foundation
c. 1800 Hull Historic Site and Educational Center:
restore cemetery and provide interpretive program
on the Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy's role in
Rev War
NY
$
3,900
Knox County Renaissance
Foundation
$
4,029
Library of Virginia Foundation
$
2,250
London Town Foundation
$
10,000
Louisiana Society NSDAR
$
9,342
Mission Preservation Foundation
Restore exterior of IOOF Building
OH
Microfilm 21 original volumes containing Auditor
of Public Accounts, Receipts & Disbursements
records of 1778-1797 (1 copy for DAR Library)
1764 William Brown House: repair water damage
to wooden deck, stair treads,door jamb, window
sills
Restore 50-year old Albrizio Mosaic for
permanent exhibit in State Museum (in storage
since 2009)
MD
Original 1782 Mission: 2-room Sala portion:
door/window/wood elements rehabilitation;
parapet wall reinforcement; roof replacement
CA
VA
LA
$
7,120
Museum of Appalachia
Roof restoration on early 1800's rare saddlebagstyle log house in Appalachian Pioneer Village
TN
$
9,250
Museum of North Carolina
Handicrafts, Inc.
1878 Shelton House: preserve two original
chimneys - deteriorated mortar and resulting
structural problems above roofline
NC
$
2,100
Old White House-General
Frelinghuysen-Colonel Lowrey Chapter,
NSDAR
$
10,000
Peoria Historical Society
1837 Flanagan House Museum: purchase air
conditioning units to regulate temperature and
control humidity
Peters Mountain Chapter, NSDAR
Fence and preserve early 1800's abandoned slave
and free men of color cemetery
Piankeshaw Chapter, NSDAR
1814 Scribner House (chapter house): replace roof
with historically correct hand-sawn cedar shingles
IN
Presbyterian Congregation of
Newtown
Repair 5 gravestones in historic cemetery; 2 are
Revolutionary War patriots
PA
$
750
$
7,000
$
5,000
Restore 15-20 gravestones in DAR chapter-owned
Revolutionary War-era cemetery
NJ
IL
WV
Education: $54,174
$
170
Catherine Thybo Chapter, NSDAR
Rebinding of 4 reference books: Dakota Territory
and early South Dakota
SD
$
491
Edenton Tea Party Chapter, NSDAR
Print Colonial History activity books for children
visiting early 1700's Edenton, NC
NC
$
1,313
Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot
Create visual, 3-panel travelling display and standalone display panel
NY
$
1,700
Friends of the North Carolina Maritime
Museum at Southport
Create permanent exhibit on importance of Cape
Fear River colonial communities in early 1700's
NC
$
6,000
Historic Philadelphia, Inc.
“Women, Work and the Revolution” exhibit at
Betsy Ross House
PA
$
1,000
John Marsh Historic Trust
Enlarge maps, photos, graphics and other visual
elements for educational presentations of Native
American, Hispanic and American pioneer history
CA
$
8,000
Museum of the Cherokee in South
Carolina
Expand exhibit area; purchase display cases:
Cherokee in early South Carolina
SC
MD
$
10,000
Mount Vernon Place Conservancy
Digital equipment for interpretive displays in
Museum of Baltimore's Washington Monument
$
5,000
$
500
Sons of the Revolution in NY - Fraunces
Tavern Museum
Exhibit 37 John Ward Dunsmore paintings of
Revolutionary War period
NY
South Brevard Historical Society, Inc.
Broward County, FL History Traveling Trunks for
4th grade classrooms
FL
$
10,000
University of South Carolina Research
Foundation
$
10,000
YWCA - Henderson House
Creation of a multimedia website based on “Island
of the Blue Dolphin”
Provide computer equipment for homeless women
veterans returning to college/ university/trade
school
NM
Place marker in Kings Mountain National
Military Park, SC honoring 3 AfricanAmerican Rev War patriots
NC
CA
Patriotism: $37,314
$
1,100
Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter,
NSDAR
$
10,000
$
3,438
$
520
$
10,000
$
1,800
$
456
$
10,000
Colonel Joseph Hardin Chapter, NSDAR
Revolutionary War Patriots Monument: 8' high
granite obelisk
TN
Combat Arts San Diego, Inc.
Public art project created by veterans
CA
Eliza Rizley Stacey Chapter, NSDAR
Erect 2 flagpoles at City Park, in Veterans Center
IN
Loudoun Revolutionary War
Memorial Committee
Veterans Memorial: honors volunteer
militiamen, their wives and children
VA
Needham Bryan Chapter, NSDAR
Monument to women veterans at new Veterans
Administration cemetery
AL
Owasso Chapter, NSDAR
Place bench in Veterans Memorial Park
OK
Veterans Memorial Foundation of Texas
Engrave historical stories of WWI on 3 existing
granite long walls located at the TXSDAR Plaza
of Liberty War Memorial
TX