Grant Recipients
Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, TennesseeExamples of Preservation Fund Projects
The Foundation for Historical Louisiana: $2,000 to assist in assembling a team of professionals to evaluate Charity Hospital (circa 1930) to determine its condition, potential for use as a medical facility, and the advisability of repairing and restructuring the building.
Bowling Green-Warren County Historic Preservation Board: $2000 to create a three-part educational program called "Me & My Old House" with the goal of increasing people's awareness of history and material culture with a hands-on workshop and local cable television program.
Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts: $1250 to help fund "Saving Spaces: Progressive Designs for Infill Lots," a design competition, exhibition and catalogue. The catalogue of 21 winning designs "represent the values sought after in infill housing—affordability, quality, efficiency, sustainability and harmonization with the existing historic neighborhoods."
Brennan House: $5000 to complete an organizational assessment that will result in a business plan aimed at better serving the community.
Spoleto Festival USA: $1500 in support of developing a design for the rehabilitation of Memminger Auditorium (circa 1939), designed by Albert Simons as a Public Works Project Administration project of the Federal Works Agency. The Auditorium reopened in the spring of 2008 to host the Spoleto Festival's Chamber Music series.
