[Hist_Pres] NPS ANNOUNCES FY10 SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES GRANTS

[David Bogan]

The National Park Service awarded 61 Save America’s Treasures grants
worth $14.3 million for fiscal year 2010. Of the 61 awards, 32 went to
projects addressing documents, artifacts and collections and only 29 to
restoration of structures and sites. The park Service made several large
grants , $700,000 each, went for restoration projects at  the Park
Service’s Fort Mason at the Golden Gate Recreation Area in San
Francisco, California; to the SS Red Oak, a 1944 Victory ship in
Richmond, California; the National Cathedral in Washington, DC; at
Butler University’s Hinkle Fieldhouse; St. Mark’s Church in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Several conservation projects received $400,000 or more: conservation of
the Southwest Native American basketry at the University of Arizona,
dendrochronology on artifacts in Tucson, Arizona; re-housing 19th
century Othniel Charles Marsh dinosaur collections in New Haven,
Connecticut.

The Smithsonian Institution received four grants for conservation of the
Heye Foundation Collection at the National Museum of the American
Indian, restoration of the Jim Crow Railroad Car at the National Museum
of African American History and Culture, restoration of the Renwick
Gallery, and conservation of biodiversity field books and expedition
journals at the National Museum of Natural History. The smallest grant
was one of eight in New York, $25,735 to the Schenectady Museum
Association for recovery of the sound on a Thomas Edison tinfoil
recording.