ON THE COVER: 

From left: U.S. Marine Hospital drawing courtesy of

the U.S. Marine Hospital Foundation; Star-Spangled

Banner 1813 (Washington, DC) photo by Ira

Block/National Geographic and Jeffrey Tinsley,

courtesy of the National Trust for Historic

Preservation; Rosa Parks Bus photo courtesy of the

Henry Ford Museum; San Esteban Del Rey Church

photo by Jim Gautier, courtesy of the Cornerstones

Community Partnerships; “Another Evening” photo by

Davide Bozzalla, courtesy of the Bill T. Jones Arnie

Zane Dance Company. Background: Lost deed petition,

1786, photo courtesy of the New Jersey State Archives.
“The spirit and the direction 

of the Nation are founded upon and

reflected in historic heritage...the

preservation of this irreplaceable

heritage is in the public interest so that

its vital legacy of cultural,educational,

esthetic,inspirational,economic and

energy benefits will be maintained and

enriched for future generations of

Americans.”

NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT 1966
“Save America’s Treasures celebrates

the rich American traditions found 

in our historic sites,structures and

collections.With over 800 projects,

it leads the way in preserving our

nation’s legacy of pride,strength 

and resilience.”

MRS. LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES

AND

HONORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMITTEE 

ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

Benjamin Franklin’s papers were among those of our nation’s founders

that have received Save America’s Treasures funding. As Franklin once

said, “Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
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FOREWORD

The vision of the Declaration of Independence, the genius of Thomas Edison, the originality of

Martha Graham’s choreography, the grandeur of Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings and the courage of the

abolitionists who gathered at Boston’s African Meeting House, all help define our national identity.

A few years ago, these icons of our national patrimony were at risk from a variety of threats.

Fortunately, all were beneficiaries of Save America’s Treasures grants.

Our investment in Save America’s Treasures safeguards the historical artifacts, artistic works,

collections, documents, paintings, buildings and sites that form the bedrock of our national memory

and values. Save America’s Treasures awards both congressionally directed and competitive grants

with every award being matched 1:1. Collectively, these projects offer lessons to future generations of

citizens,scholars and artists about our past and the strength and vigor of our nation. These treasures

belong to the American people. Save America’s Treasures represents the best of our uniquely

American interdependent system of cultural support. Individuals, foundations, businesses and

public agencies all have a role. Together with Congress and our private partner, the National Trust

for Historic Preservation, we bring a wealth of expertise to awarding Save America’s Treasures

grants.The prestige of these awards reinforces the value of these projects to the nation and to local

communities and acts as a catalyst for corporate, foundation and individual investment.

Over the life of the program many treasures have been saved, but an even greater number are in need

of help. On this 40th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, we are reminded that

preservation is a partnership of generations. Over the life of this act, we have seen each generation

build on the work of those who have come before. Today, Save America’s Treasures and Preserve

America carry on the work of our predecessors, helping to expand our vision of preservation and

capturing the breadth of our nation’s individual talent and genius. Through these grants we

continue to forge a legacy for our children and their children, conserving our sense of place and

cultural traditions.

Signed,

Fran P. Mainella, Director Adair Wakefield Margo, Chairman

National Park Service President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities 

Anne-Imelda M.Radice, Director Dana Gioia, Chairman

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Arts 

Bruce Cole,Chairman

National Endowment for the Humanities
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PREFACE

Congratulations to Congress, our Save America’s Treasures (SAT)

partners—the National Park Service, National Endowment for the

Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of

Museum and Library Services and National Trust for Historic Preservation—

and the thousands of individuals, foundations, institutions and businesses that

have contributed to the success of this program over the

last seven years.

Under the leadership of Mrs. Laura Bush as

Honorary Chairman, Save America’s Treasures and the

Preserve America initiative create a holistic preservation

approach. Preserve America helps towns and

neighborhoods use their local, regional and national heritage resources to tell

and market their story to visitors and residents. Although complementary in its

purpose as one of the many of tools that communities use to address the goals

of Preserve America, SAT differs from Preserve America in that it is dedicated

to physically saving those national treasures that form the language and symbols

of America’s democracy and creative genius.

The President’s Committee undertook this report to document the

achievements of Save America’s Treasures over the last seven years. One lesson

learned is that SAT’s inclusive approach to addressing threats to both the built

environment and cultural resources makes preservation more dynamic and

diverse,widening participation in restoring and conserving this country’s past.

The Charters mural,

National Archives

Building, restored with a

SAT award in 2000.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE

NATIONAL TRUST FOR

HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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Thousands of individuals, businesses, volunteers and professionals have

invested their time, expertise and resources through SAT in rescuing the

fragments of our history and culture. These include both the well-known, such

as the papers of the Founding Fathers, to those in my backyard, such as San

Antonio’s Mission Concepcion or the incredible artifacts recovered from

French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle’s ship, La Belle, being

restored in Austin. Engineers, dancers, historians, archivists, conservators,

carpenters, plumbers, masons and others all have contributed to Save

America’s Treasures accomplishments and helped shape the stories we share 

in this report.

The President’s Committee believes this shared pride in our culture and

history and the interdependent system of support it reflects must be valued and

strengthened. Otherwise, there will be a dwindling number of these structures

and artifacts representing the voices, ideas, people, times and places that 

form the threads of our country’s identity. The lessons learned from these

representative projects and the recognition of the many threats that still need 

to be addressed should encourage us all to preserve our past as an investment 

in our future.

Adair Wakefield Margo

Chairman, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Draft of the Star-Spangled

Banner by Francis Scott Key

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE

MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
A scrapbook of Ernest Hemingway’s childhood

compiled by his grandfather Anson Hemingway.

Save America’s Treasures holistic preservation

approach has made it possible to conserve these 

and other examples of our nation’s individual

genius, as well as the buildings and sites that

contribute to our national story.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY
Table of Contents

Letter iii

Preface iv

The Story So Far viii

Save America’s Treasures 1

PRESERVING THE LEGACY OF OUR NATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Treasures 9

THE VITAL PIECES OF OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE

McNeill Street Pumping Station, Shreveport, Louisiana

Western Fine Arts Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Paper-Based National Icons, Baltimore, Maryland

Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, New Jersey

Locke Historic District, Locke, California

Threats 13

DEMOLITION BY DECAY

Rosa Parks Bus, Dearborn, Michigan

San Esteban del Rey Church at Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Star-Spangled Banner, Washington, DC

Fort Ancient, Oregonia, Ohio 

Digital Archive of Heritage Inscriptions, Billings, Montana

Saved 17

A PARTNERSHIP OF GENERATIONS

1905 Wright Flyer III, Dayton, Ohio

John Quincy Adams Diary, Boston, Massachusetts 

Conservation of Dance Archives, New York, New York

U.S. Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky

Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California

William Faulkner’s Home, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi

Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois

La Salle Shipwreck Conservation, Austin, Texas

Revolutionary War Documents, Trenton, New Jersey 

Mesa Verde National Park, Cortez, Colorado

Sewall-Belmont House, Washington, DC

Kinishba Ruins, Whiteriver, Arizona 

Appendix 42

Save America’s Treasures Awards, 1999–2005
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THE STORY SO FAR

No other federal grant program has the responsibility

for preserving, conserving and rescuing our nation’s

most significant cultural and heritage resources,

using criteria based on the proven benchmarks set by the

National Historic Landmarks program. By design, Save

America’s Treasures addresses imminent threats to the

integrity of these resources. It targets its competitive funds

to address the diverse needs of these historical and cultural

resources, using a rigorous review process that draws on a

broad multi-agency partnership. 

From 1999 through 2005, Save America’s Treasures has

had the following results: 

• 2,375 applications received for its competitive portion

• $1.06 billion requested in competitive grants

• Nearly $116 million awarded competitively to 431 projects 

• More than $101 million in congressionally designated

challenge grants or earmarks to 371 projects 

• More than $217 million awarded in SAT grants matched 1:1

by individuals, businesses and foundations

• More than $55 million invested by businesses, foundations

and individuals in SAT projects through the efforts of the

National Trust for Historic Preservation

• 247 historic properties restored with competitive funds 

• 181 projects restoring collections, objects, artifacts,

documents and artistic works supported almost entirely

with competitive funds

• 233 National Historic Landmarks preserved, more than 84

percent with competitive funds

• 22 projects on the National Trust for Historic

Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered List saved

• 802 grants awarded in all 50 states, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Midway Islands

View of the Capitol by Benjamin Henry

Latrobe, 1810, watercolor on paper.

COURTESY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Save America’s

Treasures

DEMOLITION BY DECAY

PRESERVING THE LEGACY OF OUR 

NATIONAL EXPERIENCE

On a hot August day in 1814 the British put a torch to the

White House and the rest of Washington, DC. From the smoking ruins of the Senate

and other public buildings, the troops moved on to Baltimore and were eventually

turned back. One of the enduring symbols of this fight, the Star Spangled Banner,

survives in part because of a Save America’s Treasures grant.

Just as vigilant citizens saved the Declaration of Independence and other key

founding documents from being burned by the British, so too has Save America’s

Treasures enlisted individuals and businesses through more than 800 awards over the

last seven years to rescue a host of nationally significant intellectual and cultural

artifacts, as well as historic structures and sites.

Save America’s Treasures’ purpose is to preserve the most significant of our

nation’s cultural and heritage resources, whose intrinsic value to our national story

and to America’s memory is irreplaceable. Every Save America’s Treasures project

addresses the consequences of decay and destruction—rotting wood, rusting steel,

crumbling mortar, acid-damaged film or natural disasters. According to the 2005

Heritage Health Index, 4.7 million works of art, 13.5 million historic objects, and 

153 million photographs are at risk—and these represent only a portion of the threats

to our nation’s cultural heritage and built environment. It is this crumbling foundation

of America’s story that Save America’s Treasures addresses through its preservation

and conservation grants, which catalyze a process of rescue, regeneration and

rehabilitation.

The prestige of a Save America’s Treasures award empowers communities and

individuals to secure the necessary resources to protect this shared heritage. It is also

an important reminder that our past underwrites the nation’s future and is a living

connection to the present. The very notion of the United States as a place and an idea

changes over time as indigenous cultures, each new wave of immigrants and each
SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP 

Damaged by earthquakes and

storms, the Conservatory of

Flowers perched on the edge of

ruin until private funds began

to flow from Save America’s

Treasures and other sources.

Its restoration is a testament 

to the power of SAT’s publicprivate leadership and

investment. 

PHOTO: KEVIN J. FREST,

COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL

TRUST FOR HISTORIC

PRESERVATION

investment that began in 1999 to preserve

this shared historical and cultural legacy and

has steadily removed more places and

buildings from the National Trust’s

endangered list and the National Historic

Landmarks threatened list. 

Today this public-private partnership

continues its support in addressing the

needs of this endangered patrimony. The

National Trust’s efforts have built invaluable

national partnerships for SAT with

corporations, foundations and individuals.

Some highlights of this productive

collaboration on behalf of SAT include: 

• A $1 million Getty Foundation grant to 37

projects in 1999 to assist potential

applicants address the costs of planning

and ongoing care; 

• Home and Garden Television provided

$1.3 million in direct grants and an

additional $3.9 million in on-air and online

promotion of selected SAT projects; and 

• One of the most innovative of these

National Trust SAT partnerships is with

Tourism Cares for Tomorrow, a leading

travel industry association, whose

members have cleaned, refurbished and

helped restore several SAT sites. 

Save America’s Treasures began in

1998 as a public-private partnership

between the White House Millennium

Council and the National Trust for Historic

Preservation in response to a call to restore

America’s historic and cultural heritage. In its

first year, Save America’s Treasures raised

$30 million in private support for SAT

designated projects, ensuring the survival of

more than 20 endangered properties and

collections of our nation’s past. 

However, raising private support was

only the beginning. The White House

Millennium Council and the National Trust

toured countless historic and cultural sites

around the country on behalf of Save

America’s Treasures. This effort capitalized

on the prestige of the White House, raising

new resources and awareness of the

treasures in people’s backyards. It

successfully affirmed that Americans 

value our common heritage in all its

wonderful diversity, rescuing such places

and buildings from the National Trust’s 11

Most Endangered list as the Congressional

Cemetery, Lincoln’s Cottage, Monocacy

Aqueduct and Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. It

also built a foundation for a public

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generation find their voices and add more material to the nation’s story. In this

process, the past can be easily lost or forgotten unless each generation learns anew the

value of the structures, places, objects and documents that form the nation’s narrative.

A Save America’s Treasures award helps citizens understand the role and

contribution of these treasures to the American experience and shines a light on the

unmet preservation needs in a community’s backyard, helping unlock a process of

transformation of these places by opening new economic opportunities and

possibilities.

A Nation’s and Community’s Stake in its Future

Preservation in the United States has always been energized by a long tradition of

public-private partnerships and federal leadership. The SAT program capitalizes on

that powerful combination through a unique and innovative approach that allows

SAT to address the dazzling diversity of this historic and cultural legacy by using the

expertise and knowledge of the National Park Service, the National Endowment for

the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and

Library Services, and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. At

the same time it helps underwrite the success of many projects through its private

sector partner, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has raised $60

million, in addition to more than $217 million raised in matching funds by SAT

projects. And to strengthen Save America’s Treasures’ efforts in encouraging a

vigorous preservation ethic, the National Trust has broadened public understanding

and awareness of these projects through its media partnerships and advocacy efforts.

A Public Trust 

Save America’s Treasures is part of the ongoing work of generations of U.S. citizens

who over time have shaped our nation’s preservation efforts from the Mount Vernon

Ladies Association, which saved George Washington’s home, to the more recent Save

Ellis Island effort. A succession of acts and laws starting with the 1906 Antiquities Act

have refined and expanded on the idea that cultural, natural and heritage resources are

a public good that benefits all Americans.

Mrs. Laura Bush, as Honorary Chairman of Preserve America and Save

America’s Treasures, has broadened this commitment to preservation as a public

good by strengthening efforts to engage communities through Preserve America,

which helps towns and neighborhoods use their local, regional and national heritage

resources to tell and market their story to visitors and residents. Complementing

Preserve America, SAT is one of the many tools that communities can use to address
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the goals of Preserve America, but it is the only federal effort dedicated to addressing

the structural and conservation needs of our shared national cultural heritage.

Save America’s Treasures added a new dimension to the 1966 National Historic

Preservation Act (NHPA), which is the framework that governs the preservation and

management of our nation’s historic resources. The NHPA began as a response to

recommendations in With Heritage So Rich, in which former First Lady Mrs. Lyndon

B. Johnson, in partnerhip with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, called for a national

commitment to stem the tide of demolition of our historic places and buildings. Save

America’s Treasures takes the best of the NHPA—the National Historic Landmark

FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP: SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES PARTNERS

I

n preservation, government does not play a

predominant role, but its leadership and

investment are indispensable. Through tax

policies, laws, regulatory practices and

appropriations government can stimulate or

depress the private sector’s support that sustains

our heritage and culture. It is also a steward of a

vast array of historic, natural and cultural resources

that belong to all the American people.

The Save America’s Treasures public and

private partnership reflects this federal

responsibility, leadership and investment role in

preserving our nationally significant cultural and

heritage resources. The success of this partnership

rests on SAT’s ability to draw on the crossdisciplinary expertise of its federal partners, as well

as the private sector leadership of the National

Trust for Historic Preservation, in developing a

holistic approach to addressing the whole diversity

of our national experience. 

FEDERAL PARTNERS

The National Park Service: The National Park

Service (NPS) oversees the management of SAT

grants. Built on a century of cultural resource

management expertise that began with the

Antiquities Act of 1906, which required the

protection of historic and prehistoric remains on

Federal lands, it is the agency most identified in

the public mind as the steward of natural and

historic resources. The NPS runs numerous

programs that deeply affect preservation. Among

them are: American Indian Liaison Office;

Archeology and Ethnology Program; Heritage

Preservation Services; Historic American Building

Survey and the Historic American Engineering

Record; Museum Management Program; National

Center for Preservation Technology Training;

National Center for Recreation and Conservation;

National Heritage Areas Program; National

Register of Historic Places; and the National

Historic Landmarks Program. 

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the

Humanities (PCAH): Upon the close of the

Millennium Council, The President’s Committee

was asked by Mrs. Laura Bush, its Honorary 

Chairman, to oversee the coordination of the Save

America’s Treasures program in partnership with

the National Park Service. This oversight aligns

PCAH’s long-standing commitment to

preservation and its role as a bridge between the

public and the private sector in supporting arts

and humanities efforts in partnership with the

NEA, NEH and IMLS.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): 

The NEA has been a leader and catalyst in

supporting the preservation of our nation’s artistic

expressions and living traditions since its founding
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in 1965. The NEA invests several million dollars 

a year through its grants for presentation,

apprenticeships and instruction, and for

documentation, recording and conservation of

significant art works, traditions, as well as the

preservation of some of the byproducts of the

creative process—costumes, theater design, and

architectural drawings. 

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):

The NEH plays a major role in supporting

humanities efforts across the country. Its

investment in complex research projects and

teams of scholars has resulted in the preservation

and publication of the papers of the Founding

Fathers, among other significant historical

documents. It also exerts national leadership in

conserving documents, books, sound recordings,

still and moving images, and other at-risk

collections. The result of these efforts benefit not

only future scholars and writers who will relate

our history, but also average citizens who

through the numerous NEH-supported media

and digitization projects can experience the past

first-hand in documentaries and Web-based

collections and exhibitions.

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS):

Sustaining cultural heritage is one of the primary

objectives of IMLS. The recent IMLS-funded

report, A Public Trust at Risk, The Heritage 

Health Index Report on the State of America’s

Collections, highlights the dire need for

conservation and collections care in America.

Through its Conservation Project Support grants,

the Conservation Assessment Program, and its

primary partnership in Save America’s Treasures,

IMLS provides institutions throughout the U.S.

with tools to preserve the cultural, scientific,

historic and artistic heritage they hold in trust for

the American people. 

PRIVATE PARTNER

The National Trust for Historic Preservation

Congress chartered the National Trust for Historic

Preservation in 1949 as the national nonprofit

membership organization to preserve and

promote the built environment. A recipient of the

NEH’s National Humanities Medal, the National

Trust provides leadership, education, advocacy

and resources to protect the irreplaceable places

that tell America’s story. The National Trust

manages 28 historic sites and it operates six

regional offices. Save America’s Treasures is one

example of its preservation partnership with

federal agencies in helping them carry out their

stewardship responsibilities in preservation. 

criteria that bestows our nation’s highest distinction for historic buildings and

sites––and adds value by incorporating a broader vision of preservation that addresses

the whole diversity of our national experience from restoring sites and structures to

conserving journals and collections to rescuing steam engines and artistic works.

The seed for this approach was outlined by the President’s Committee on the

Arts and the Humanities in Creative America, its 1997 report to the President on the

contributions culture makes to democracy and the effect of the amateur, non-profit

and creative commercial sectors on the economy. Among its recommendations was

the recognition that preservation should safeguard the irreplaceable built environment
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and conserve the creative genius and ideas expressed in this country’s performing

arts, films, paintings, prints, sculpture, books, manuscripts, archaeological artifacts

and other intellectual and cultural property.

Engaging Citizens as Stewards 

From its outset in 1998 as an initial partnership between the White House and the

National Trust for Historic Preservation, SAT used the symbolic power of the White

House to help raise awareness, bestow prestige and leverage investment by individuals

and businesses in protecting our at-risk national historic and cultural treasures.

Subsequently, Congress institutionalized Save America’s Treasures as a federal

funding program under the National Historic Preservation Act with its first federal

grants being awarded in 1999 through SAT’s unique federal partnership—National

Park Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the

Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The strength of Save America’s Treasures is its grassroots preservation

ethic carried out through its funding structure that engages thousands of

individuals and businesses in investing in these projects. Through its federal

matching grants, the program focuses on access, equity and excellence in two

ways. Congress as the representative of the people traditionally awards half of

the program’s funding as challenge grants to organizations designated by them.

This helps the program be responsive to a community’s interest in preserving

their regional and local cultural and historic treasures.

Although every community can lay claim to some part of the national story,

there are relatively few national treasures that form the fabric of our country’s

DNA. This is the focus of the program’s competitive funding allocation, which

allows large and small organizations from across the nation to compete as equals

in making a case for their projects. The competitive portion sets standards of

excellence and draws on the various preservation expertise and capabilities of

its four federal partners, which together conduct a rigorous review process that

identifies the best projects and at the same time offers applicants an opportunity

to strengthen future applications through technical assistance and guidance.

The outpouring of support and affection for each community’s cultural

and historic resources is evidenced in the thousands of SAT applications that

have been received and in the monies raised through corporate gifts and the

local efforts of school children and others to conserve icons like the

Constitution of the United States, Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings and beloved

landmarks like New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Every Save America’s
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Treasure project involves hundreds of volunteer hours and services donated by

individuals, businesses and communities. And the return on their investment

ranges from restored buildings and places that become anchors for tourism or

revitalization of neighborhoods to rescuing the many fragments of our national

story so that their children will learn the lessons of the past. Without these

individual efforts and the funds provided by Save America’s Treasures, this

irreplaceable legacy would turn to dust or ruin.

Each Save America’s Treasures project makes a lasting difference to its

community, and to the thousands of individuals who contributed their time to

these efforts and to the nation. The program is a source of pride for every

citizen and a lesson in how a modest investment and a broad public-private

partnership can make a vital and valuable contribution to the cultural life of 

our nation.
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Since 1960, the National Historic Landmarks (NHL)

program has identified and preserved America’s most

exceptional historic places. The NHL program’s

benchmark of excellence plays a critical part in Save America’s

Treasures. Its standards for national significance are shared by

SAT, and SAT is the only federal program with grant amounts

large enough to help NHLs address their critical structural or

other capital needs. Administered by the National Park Service

(NPS), these landmarks are preserved through a collaborative

effort among government agencies, professionals, independent

organizations and individuals. The NPS offers technical

assistance and limited funds from other programs in addition to

those from Save America’s Treasures.

Currently there are 2,417 NHLs across the country and in the

Pacific, the Caribbean and Morocco. They fall into five general

categories: historic buildings, districts, sites, structures and

objects. 

Each year 20 to 25 new NHLs are designated by the

Secretary of the Interior after a rigorous comparative analysis of

properties and after final recommendations by the National

Park System Advisory Board.

The NPS monitors the health of these landmarks, rating the

condition of the NHL on the following scale—satisfactory,

watch, threatened, emergency and lost. 

Fifty-four percent or 1,231 NHLs are in the original thirteen

colonies, following the pattern of European settlement. Given

the relatively large number of SAT NHL awards, SAT projects

also reflect a similar geographic pattern. 

Save America’s Treasures has made a tremendous difference

to saving these exceptional landmarks—providing $79.4 million

in awards to 233 NHLs nationwide and moving many of these

from threatened or watch status to satisfactory. 

NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS: SAVE

AMERICA’S TREASURES’ BENCHMARK 

“We must preserve and we must

preserve wisely. As the report

emphasizes in its best sense

preservation does not mean

merely setting aside thousands of

buildings as museum pieces. It

means retaining the culturally

valuable structures as useful

objects: A home in which human

beings live, a building in the

service of some commercial or

community purpose.”

FORMER FIRST LADY MRS. LYNDON

B. JOHNSON, FOREWORD, WITH

HERITAGE SO RICH (1966)
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Save America’s Treasures projectsillustrate, interpret,

and embody the great events, ideas, and individuals that contribute to our nation’s

history and culture. In themselves treasures can appear commonplace and can be

easily overlooked—an abandoned bus, an adobe church, pictures of cowboys,

drawings stuffed in file cabinets, immigrant settlements and other cultural and historic

objects and places. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle or the strands of DNA, all these

objects fit together into a larger tale of shared experience past, present and future.

A portion of our country’s most significant treasures—the built environment of

buildings, sites and districts and the collections, artifacts, objects and materials—are

reviewed and evaluated by SAT through its competitive award program. The crucial

question regarding their significance is not their age, but whether their loss would

obliterate a vital piece of our country’s DNA. Arriving at the answer is rooted in the

rigorous standards of the National Historic Landmarks (NHL) program, which

identifies and bestows on the country’s structures and sites its highest recognition.

Just as with the NHL program, Save America’s Treasures applicants for a competitive

grant must demonstrate their signficance in light of their contribution to our national

story and how they help us understand our history, traditions or way of life.

Could we explain, for instance, our ideals without the Declaration of

Independence or Rosa Parks’ bus; our genius without the Wright Brothers flying

machine or the McNeil Pumping Station waterworks; our ancestral roots without

Mesa Verde cliff dwellings or the Locke Historic District, a rural Chinese American

settlement; or without the thousands of other similar pieces that form the backbone of

our national identity and act as a compass that guides our journey into the future.

Restoring these diverse parts of our historic and cultural legacy for the use of visitors,

scholars,artists, school children and other citizens underscores a key feature of these

treasures as living and useful things.

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Treasures

DEMOLITION BY DECAY

THE VITAL PIECES OF OUR HISTORY AND CULTURE
McNeill Street Pumping Station

SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

National Historic Landmark 

GRANT AMOUNT: $150,000 YEAR: 2001

America’s industrial, engineering and technological heritage

applied the lessons of theoretical knowledge to making this

country a powerhouse of invention. Designated a National

Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and a National Historic

Landmark, the McNeill Street waterworks, like Edison’s light

bulb or Wright’s airplane, is testament to the engineering

advances that brought about the modern age.

Western Fine Art Collection 

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

GRANTEE: NATIONAL COWBOY HALL OF FAME AND

WESTERN HERITAGE CENTER 

GRANT AMOUNT: $140,000 YEAR: 2000

The ideas of rugged individualism, self-sufficiency and the

freedom to pursue one’s dreams are all captured in the

iconography of the West. The whole vision of America and the

West are expressed in the works of artists from Frederic

Remington to this painting by Ralph Blakelock, which was

restored with SAT funds.

Paper-Based National Icons 

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

GRANTEE: MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

GRANT AMOUNT: $181,082 YEAR: 1999

Decades-old state of the art conservation slowed decay, but acid

and corrosion are relentless. Without intervention by SAT,

these fragile paper records—56 of the 57 competition drawings

for the U.S. Capitol, the original manuscript of the national

anthem and the only extant interior images of the White House

before the British burned it in 1814—would vanish.

Edison National Historic Site 

WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY

GRANTEE: EDISON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE,

COLLECTIONS

GRANT AMOUNT: $250,000 YEAR: 2001

Edison’s letters and lab notes are among the more than 6 

million items held by the Edison National Historic Site. Many 

of the documents are still in the original cabinets and represent

the raw ideas that became the inventions and products that

revolutionized or launched whole new industries. Creating a safe

environment with SAT funding will preserve this fragile legacy.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s drawing of White House furnishings, watercolor,

pen and ink on paper (1809). 

IMAGE COURTESY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Edison’s Tinfoil

Phonograph Sketch,

Paper (1877 ) 

COURTESY OF THE

EDISON NATIONAL

HISTORIC SITE,

NATIONAL PARK

SERVICE 

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COWBOY HALL OF FAME AND WESTERN HERITAGE CENTER 

PHOTO: HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

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Locke Historic District

LOCKE, CALIFORNIA

National Historic Landmark District

GRANT AMOUNT: $450,000 YEAR: 2004

The largest, most complete example of a rural Chinese

American community in the United States is preserved as a

National Historic Landmark District. Addressing the structural

decay of a boarding house in the district is vital to ensuring this

living legacy continues as a tribute to those who helped build

the nation and worked for a better life for their children.

NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT: SAVE AMERICA’S 

TREASURES’ FOUNDATION 

The 1966 National Historic Preservation Act

(NHPA) establishes federal historic

preservation policy and sets forth broad

federal responsibilities to identify, evaluate and protect

historic resources. It is the most comprehensive

expression of how this nation addresses preservation.

In general, the NHPA addresses the preservation of

the built environment and the “artifacts, records, and

material remains related to such a property or

resource.” Preservation of cultural resources 

expressed through art, performance, music or in

documents, artifacts and collections are not part 

of the NHPA’s overall policy framework. However,

under its Historic Preservation Fund, Save America’s

Treasures takes a comprehensive view of preservation 

to include and address the needs of both the built

environment and cultural resources. 

Highlights of the NHPA include:

• Established the National Register of Historic Places; 

• Established the Advisory Council on Historic

Preservation.

• Created a public private partnership framework of

State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs) in

each state and territory, Tribal Historic Preservation

Officers (THPOs), and certified local governments

(CLGs) to carry out historic preservation activity.

• Identified key policies to be followed by the

federal government, and defines the role of

federal, tribal, state, and local government in

advancing these policies. 

• Set-up financial assistance and incentives.

Under the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF),

the NHPA provides matching grants to states,

direct grants to tribal nations and tax

incentives. Save America’s Treasures is funded

under the HPF. 

• Includes the Secretary of the Interior’s

Standards for the treatment of historic

properties developed and disseminated by 

the National Park Service. For Save America’s

Treasures, the standards are one of the tools

used to ensure projects address threats in a

consistent and appropriate fashion.

Under NHPA, the National Park Service

administers some federal funding on a matching

basis, maintains the National Register of Historic

Places, and runs a variety of programs that offer

technical assistance and set standards in the

identification, evaluation and treatment of historic

resources. 

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WHAT IS AT RISK?

Nothing captures the purpose of Save

America’s Treasures better than the breadth

and scale of the threats to the foundation of

symbols, texts, sounds, images, places and structures

representing American culture and heritage. In 2005,

Heritage Preservation in partnership with the

Institute of Museum and Library Services, conducted

the first comprehensive survey of the conditions and

preservation needs of U.S. collections. The resulting

Heritage Health Index found that roughly 190 million

objects held by archives, historical societies, libraries,

museums and scientific organizations are in need of

conservation treatment. 

How many cultural artifacts are there?

More than 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust

by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies,

libraries, museums, scientific research collections and

archaeological repositories in the U.S. 

How many of these are at risk?

• 4.7 million works of art

• 13.5 million historic objects from flags and quilts to

steam engines and Pueblo pottery 

• 153 million photographs

• 189 million natural specimens

• 270 million rare and unique books, periodicals and

scrapbooks

What are the threats to these cultural resources?

• 80 percent of institutions do not have paid staff

dedicated to collections care

• 80 percent of institutions do not have emergency

plans that includes collections 

• 77 percent of institutions do not specifically

allocate funds for preservation in their budgets

• 70 percent of institutions do not have a current

assessment of the condition of their collections

• 68 percent of institutions have a budget of 

$3,000 or less for conservation and preservation

• 65 percent of our nation’s collecting institutions

have experienced damage due to improper

storage and have the majority of their collections

stored in areas too small to accommodate them

safely

What are condition of the buildings and structures?

• For the nation’s most significant structures and

sites, the National Historic Landmarks program has

listed 90 NHLs as threatened and placed 276 on

their Watch list. 

• Deterioration is the primary threat to to NHLs;

others include looting, vandalism and erosion.

• The National Park Service reported that 47 percent

of its structures were in good condition, leaving 53

percent in serious need of repair.

Sources: A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index

Report on the State of America’s Collections; National Historic

Landmarks Update 2004; and National Park Service 

Pottery is the only

historical record of the

Southwest’s Mimbres

people, which without

conservation by SAT

would be lost to

posterity.

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The United States’ historic structures, sites and

collections are deteriorating or in danger of being lost to age, exposure, natural

disasters, urban sprawl, vandalism and even dust, which is as corrosive as

sandpaper. Save America’s Treasures grants support exceptional places and

artifacts that face a host of dangers from brittle documents to water damage to

dry rot to structural collapse. Grants from SAT have addressed objects as large

as rusting battleships like the U.S.S. Massachusetts, former flagship of General

George Patton during the allied invasion of North Africa, and Birmingham’s

Bethel Baptist Church’s failing roof, which would have extinguished what

several bombings couldn’t accomplish in destroying a vital symbol of the Civil

Rights movement. Yet not all SAT projects are as rugged as a battleship nor as

substantial as a church—some are as delicate as a piece of 200-year old paper or

a plant specimen and as fleeting as a dance performance or a news broadcast.

To preserve these objects, performances, memories and structures requires

thousands of hours of labor and skill. It requires the work of masons, structural

engineers, conservators, painters, architects, plumbers, electrians and a host of

other skilled professionals. None of the work is glamourous or cheap. Creating

safe environments for artifacts and objects from heating and storage systems to

replacing structural supports for buildings is often invisible, but without such

SAT investments, decay would win out. By making these relatively small

investments, SAT fulfills an important responsibility in ensuring the health of

the places and ideas that form the fabric our democracy.

On the next two pages are examples of threats addressed with the help of

SAT project funds—neglect (Rosa Parks bus); water (Fort Ancient); structural

decay (San Esteban Del Rey); environmental degradation (Star-Spangled

Banner); and natural erosion (Digital Archive of Heritage Inscriptions).

Threats

DEMOLITION BY DECAY
Star-Spangled Banner

WASHINGTON, DC 

GRANTEE: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

GRANT AMOUNT: $3,000,000 YEAR: 1999

By the time it arrived at the Smithsonian in 1907, the StarSpangled Banner was already in a fragile and tattered

condition. By the late 1990s this national icon was

extremely frail and symbolic of the health of so many of

our national treasures. Its restoration embodied the

principles of Save America’s Treasures as its SAT

designation unleashed unprecedented private investment

from Ralph Lauren and others to construct a state-of-theart environment to help preserve the flag for future

generations.

Rosa Parks Bus 

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

GRANTEE: HENRY FORD MUSEUM AND 

GREENFIELD VILLAGE

GRANT AMOUNT: $205,000 YEAR: 2002

This seemingly unremarkable bus sat unprotected in a

field for 30 years, its seats and engine gone, many of its

windows broken, its metal rusted through and its paint job

a mere shadow of its former self. A Save America’s

Treasures grant helped restore the bus to what it was

when Rosa Parks rode it in 1955.Her spirit now lives on

in this landmark of the Civil Rights Era.

San Esteban del Rey Church 

ACOMA PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO

National Historic Landmark 

GRANT AMOUNT: $400,000 YEAR: 2001

A survivor of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and listed on

World Monument Fund’s 100 Most Endangered sites in

2002, the preservation of San Esteban del Rey exemplifies

the power of a SAT designation to engage community

cooperation and private investment. More than 100

individuals, foundations and corporations contributed to

Cornerstones Community Partnerships through SAT and

the National Trust for Historic Preservation to restore this

church.

COURTESY OF THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM

PHOTO: JIM GAUTIER,

COURTESY OF

CORNERSTONES

COMMUNITY

PARTNERSHIPS

Star-Spangled Banner 1813 (Washington, DC)

PHOTO: IRA BLOCK/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND JEFFREY TINSLEY. COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL

TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

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Fort Ancient Earthworks

OREGONIA. OHIO

National Historic Landmark 

GRANT AMOUNT: $255,000 YEAR: 2004

North America’s largest prehistoric Indian hilltop

enclosure, Fort Ancient was built nearly 2,000 years ago

above the Little Miami River in Southwest Ohio. From

1891 when the site became Ohio’s first state park through

the restoration efforts of the federal Civilian Conservation

Corps in the 1930s until the recent SAT award, successive

generations have battled water and erosion to stabilize the

earthworks.

Digital Archive of Heritage

Inscriptions

MONTANA, NORTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING

HISTORIC ROCK CARVINGS, MONTANA STATE

UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS, BILLINGS

GRANT AMOUNT: $65,400 YEAR: 2005

Explorers, frontiersmen and settlers left a record of their passage

etched into the terrain as they moved westward. Unfortunately,

no way exists to prevent the eventual loss of these inscriptions to

wind,water, time and the ignorance of the public regarding the

value if these inscriptions as part of our national heritage. Using

technology these inscriptions will be preserved through the use

of digital scans and geographic information systems of selected

sites.

“Our country is in jeopardy of losing its audiovisual

heritage. . .As more television stations and media

companies go digital and old format playback

equipment changes, analog videotape is quickly

being dismissed as ‘useless’ or dumped in landfills

to clear storage space.”

–– HORACE NEWCOMB

director of the Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia’s

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication,

Save America’s Treasures awardee, 2004

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS

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SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES PROJECTS:

IN THEIR OWN WORDS 

JOHN ADAMS DIARY 

“Although the importance of preserving such an extraordinary record is inarguable,

grants for ‘less glamorous’ activities, such as de-acidifying pages and repairing

broken spines, are rare––particularly in amounts needed to tackle a project of this

magnitude.”

—MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

U.S. MARINE HOSPITAL 

“In the minds of many Louisville residents and officials, the building was simply 

a dirty, time-worn building that people passed as they went to work. The federal 

SAT grant made it clear that the building was, indeed, of national significance.”

—LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT 

ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION 

“Nothing existing in print about the immigration experience written during this

period comes close to rivaling the power of the poetry on Angel Island. The walls of

the detention barracks thus become truly unique in that they are akin to a rare

fragile manuscript.”

—ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION FOUNDATION 

NEW JERSEY REVOLUTIONARY WAR DOCUMENTS 

“The size of the SAT grant allowed the archives to consider preservation on a scale

that would not have been possible under other grant programs. Grants for this kind

of conservation from other sources typically range from $10,000 to $20,000, and

with grants of that size an institution can tackle only a limited segment of their

collection and must approach conservation in a piecemeal fashion.”

—NEW JERSEY STATE ARCHIVES 

MESA VERDE CLIFF DWELLINGS 

“Although Mesa Verde had long been considered one of the jewels of the National

Park System — and had been named the first World Cultural Heritage Site — a

large-scale conservation project was well beyond the park’s regular maintenance

budget. And even with the help of grants, in a typical year, the park might receive

$50,000 or $100,000 for conservation work.. . . With that large infusion of [SAT

and private matching dollars] funds, the park was able to greatly speed up its

conservation efforts, accomplishing in a few years what otherwise might have

required a decade or longer to complete.”

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Major John Andre, a British intelligence officer, walked into

the night in 1780 with a cache of military secrets given to him by Benedict

Arnold folded neatly into his boot. These documents held the key to West Point,

a stronghold that if captured by the British would have a dealt a devastating blow

to the American Revolution. No historical figure is more recognizable than

Benedict Arnold, whose very name speaks the highest treason.

Yet without these documents, where is the proof ? Future authors and

scholars would lose a vital touchstone of one of the nation’s greatest betrayals

and mysteries—why would one of the Revolution’s bravest soldiers and leaders

chose to betray a cause for which he shed so much blood? However, a Save

America’s Treasures grant made it possible for anyone to read Arnold’s words

and ponder the evidence of his treason in the military plans. New York state

archivists have painstakingly unfolded each one of Andre’s careful creases,

washed and repaired the paper, making it possible to digitize the words and

diagrams so that new history could be written and experienced by generations

of children,scholars and writers.

Thanks to Save America’s Treasures grants, many citizens and the world

can experience the symbols, texts, sounds and places that make up our national

identity. These include the iconic—Mesa Verde and Valley Forge—and lessknown treasures—John Adam’s 51-volume diary and the U.S. Marine Hospital

in Louisville, Kentucky. They include eloquent testaments carved by Chinese

immigrants on the barrack walls at San Francisco’s Angel Island and the words

of everyday witnesses to the Revolutionary War in New Jersey. These and

hundreds of other fragments of the American experience are being kept alive by

Save America’s Treasures.

Why do we treasure these things? The Save America’s Treasures projects

that follow provide an eloquent answer, illustrating the diverse themes, ideas,

communities, identities, places and subjects that form our national story. More

than this, these projects are a testament to the hundreds of volunteers,

businesses and organizations that helped rescue these treasures for the nation.

Saved

A PARTNERSHIP OF GENERATIONS
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ENGINEERING MARVELS

1905 Wright Flyer III

National Historic Landmark

GRANTEE: CARILLON HISTORICAL PARK, DAYTON, OHIO

AMOUNT OF GRANT: $328,500 

YEAR: 1999

Although the Wright brothers had made a name for themselves in 1903 with their 12-

second flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., it would take the inventors two more years of

tinkering before they developed a truly practical airplane. The Wright Flyer III,

unveiled in 1905, could bank, turn, safely take off and land. And, it could stay aloft long enough

for the intrepid brothers to perfect their flying skills over the farm fields north of Dayton, Ohio.

It was in the Wright Flyer III that Wilbur and Orville truly conquered the air.

The plane has been on display at Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, since 1950. In

1999 the park received a Save America’s Treasures grant to restore the plane, which collections

manager Nancy Horlacher calls “truly one of America’s major artifacts.”

The biplane had previously been restored in the late 1940s, under the supervision of

Orville Wright. But since then, the unbleached muslin fabric covering the plane had been

damaged by mold and condensation and

had begun to tear in places. Metal fittings

and wires had rusted, several wooden struts

had broken, and lubricants inside the engine

had dried up. At the same time, the

museum recognized that it needed to

upgrade climate control and lighting to

better protect this world-renowned treasure.

Such an extensive project would

normally have been difficult for a small

private, nonprofit museum like Carillon

Historical Park to tackle, Horlacher said.

But,with the aid of the SAT grant, the park

was able to hire conservation specialists and

proceed with a meticulous, full-scale

restoration.

One of the most challenging tasks for conservators was deciding how to deal with the

aging muslin “aeroplane fabric,” which Orville had purchased at a local department store and

which is no longer available today. Instead of replacing the historic fabric, conservators

painstakingly cleaned, treated and patched the cloth.

The conservation process also helped to solve some mysteries regarding the plane’s

propulsion system. “There are only a handful of the early Wright engines in existence,”

A technician restores the

fabric-covered wing of the

Wright Flyer.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE

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according to Malcolm Collum, a conservator who worked on the plane’s mechanical

components. As conservators took the engine apart for cleaning, they were able to see “hidden

details” and learn more about how this engine––the first to offer enough power for sustained

flight––was put together.

Carillon Historical Park matched the $328,500 SAT grant with the help of cash and inkind donations from local individuals and companies. A local company donated a state-of-theart Liebert unit to control temperature and humidity levels in the exhibition area.

The restoration project was completed in time for the 150,000 visitors who descended on

the park for the 2003 Centennial of Flight celebration. The park continues to be a popular

tourist destination today. “Visitors are amazed that the Wright Flyer III looks so fragile, and that

it is made with such simple materials,” Horlacher says. But thanks to the SAT grant, this 100-

year-old assemblage of fabric, wood and wire will continue to be around for decades to come,

inspiring new generations with the story of how two determined brothers proved that the sky’s

not the limit.

The Wright Flyer is a

fragile assembly of cloth,

wood and metal fittings,

which were beset by rust,

mold and wear until its

restoration with SAT

funds.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE

CARRILLION HISTORICAL

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REPAIRING AMERICA’S NARRATIVE

John Quincy Adams Diary

GRANTEE: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

GRANT AMOUNT: $100,000

YEAR: 2003

As a diplomat to Europe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, president of the United

States, member of Congress and attorney who argued the Amistad case before the

Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams was witness to an extraordinary period in

American history.

Fortunately for scholars and historians, Adams was also a disciplined and eloquent diarist.

His diary, begun in 1779, when he was only 12-years old, continued with few gaps until 1847,

the year before he died. Filled with detailed notes on his activities and reflections on events and

leading figures of the times, the diary is “an absolute treasure trove of information about the

early nineteenth century,” writes biographer Robert V. Remini. “It is one of the many blessings

John Quincy Adams left to posterity.”

And it was for the sake of posterity that the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS )––

which owns the diary, along with other Adams Family Papers—sought a Save America’s

Treasures grant to conserve the fragile document. This is no small task, as the diary

encompasses 51 volumes and contains almost 15,000 pages.

John Quincy Adams’s original diaries, which are an extraordinary witness to the early years of the nation. 

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Although the MHS had microfilmed the diary in the 1950s,

prior to that time the original documents had been available for

use by scholars. Time and handling had taken a toll. Many of the

pages had come loose from the bindings. In some cases, the

paper had become so brittle and discolored that the text was

being lost, according to Brenda Lawson, the MHS curator of

manuscripts.

Although the importance of preserving such an

extraordinary record is inarguable, grants for “less glamorous”

activities, such as deacidifying pages and repairing broken spines,

are rare––particularly in amounts needed to tackle a project of

this magnitude, Lawson points out.

Receipt of a $100,000 SAT grant — matched by

contributions from private foundations and individuals —

allowed the MHS to engage skilled conservation technicians to

restore the diaries and build special protective cases for them.

The MHS also used a portion of the grant to create digital images from the existing

microfilm so the diary could be mounted on the MHS website. Because the diary is so

voluminous, it had never before been published in its entirety. The Web version

(www.masshist.org/jqadiaries/) makes this resource available to anyone in the world with

Internet access, in a format that is searchable by date.

“The diaries are a phenomenal resource for scholars who are working on any number of

topics,” Lawson says. “Whether it’s the Jacksonian era, or slavery or the War of 1812, Adams

will have commented on it.”

The MHS also expects students to benefit from access to such an important primary

source. Students can view images of the actual diary pages and examine Adam’s thoughts, in his

own handwriting. In the process, they will get a feel for the man that they couldn’t get from

reading history books alone.

Top, a conservation

technician repairs a page

from one of the diaries and

above, another of the threats

needing treatment as the

binding of one of the diary’s

volumes is separating from

the pages. 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL

SOCIETY 
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CAPTURING ARTISTIC GENIUS

Conservation of Dance Archives

GRANTEE: DANCE HERITAGE COALITION, WASHINGTON, DC

GRANT AMOUNT: $52,625

YEAR: 2004

Often operating on a shoestring, dance companies generally lack the time and energy

to focus on preserving their work. “They have the best of intentions, but when

push comes to shove, companies have to pay the dancers and mount productions

before they do anything else,” explains Barbara Drazin, project director for the Dance Heritage

Coalition, in Washington,D.C.

Preservation problems are compounded by the fact that dance is such an ephemeral art

form. While written dance notation systems exist, companies increasingly rely on videotape

recordings to document their performances.But many of these recordings will ultimately be lost

as tapes deteriorate and formats become obsolete. And because of improper storage, other

critical aspects of a company’s heritage––photographs, posters, programs, reviews, costumes

and sets and props––are also literally turning to dust.

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organization dedicated to the preservation of dance materials––sought a

Save America’s Treasures grant to begin to address the “desperate”

preservation problems faced by three of the country’s most celebrated

dance troupes:

• The Martha Graham Dance Company, based in New York City,

was founded in 1926 by the modern dance pioneer. The

company had 80 years’ worth of materials housed in a jumble of

cardboard boxes stored in non-climate controlled warehouses.

Among the items were hundreds of photographs, thousands of

videotapes and original costumes from Graham’s seminal

Appalachian Spring.

• The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, based in New York City, was formed

in 1982 by Jones and Zane, both dancers and choreographers. Zane has since died of

AIDS. The company is known for Jones’ avant-garde choreography and powerful

performances dealing with such topics as racism, sexuality and AIDS. The company’s

materials were poorly stored in an off-site warehouse lacking climate control.

• The Mark Morris Dance Group, based in Brooklyn, N.Y., was founded in the 1980s.

It is a widely acclaimed company known for its choreography drawn from diverse

sources and strong musicality. The company’s archives include more than 2,000

unsorted, poorly housed photographs and hundreds of videotapes, many of which

represent the only remaining documentation of performances from the mid-1980s.

In 2004,The Dance Heritage Coalition received a $52,625 SAT grant, which was

matched by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The DHC has used the grant to provide a

preservation technician to assist each company with storage issues; to help identify more

appropriate storage areas; to purchase the shelves, acid-free costume boxes and archival photo

sleeves the companies need for proper storage; and to inventory and reformat videotapes.

The grant was significant because funding for dance preservation is scarce, Drazin says.

Funders who support the arts often fail to support preservation activities, while funders who

support preservation often focus on the humanities rather than the arts, she points out. And

while the grant will not completely solve the three companies’ preservation problems, “it

represents an important start,” she said. “It gets the whole staff thinking about these issues.”

Even more importantly, by stabilizing these collections, the grant will help assure that America’s

irreplaceable dance treasures will be available to scholars, other dance artists––and ultimately

the public––for generations to come.

Save America’s Treasures preserves the

breadth of our national experience from what

we build to what we imagine. Without its

preservation grants, 20th century dance

might only exist in the minds and muscles 

of dancers. Left, Bill T. Jones performance, 

“As I was Saying.”

PHOTO BY AL ZANYK, COURTESY OF 

THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The future legacy of

many legendary artists,

such as Martha

Graham, often turns on

very basic issues such as

storage and providing

an environment to

safeguard the

videotapes, documents

and other key elements

of their legacy.

PHOTO: MARTHA GRAHAM

DANCE COMPANY

ARCHIVES, COURTESY OF

THE DANCE HERITAGE

COALITION
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PROMOTING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION THROUGH RESTORATION

U.S. Marine Hospital

National Historic Landmark

GRANTEE: LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT, 

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

GRANT AMOUNT: $375,000

YEAR: 2003

I

n the mid-19th century, cities along major inland waterways faced a public health crisis:

How were they to handle the growing number of mariners who had become ill with

diseases like influenza, cholera, smallpox or yellow fever, and who had been cast off their 

vessels to fend for themselves? The problem went beyond the afflicted mariners, for those with

communicable illnesses posed a threat to the citizenry at large.

The solution came in the form of a federal act, which called for the construction of a series

of “inland marine hospitals” to treat sick and destitute boatmen. These hospitals marked one of

the earliest examples of government-supported healthcare and were the precursor of the

modern public health system.

The last surviving example of these institutions is Louisville’s U.S. Marine Hospital,

completed in 1852. Robert Mills, the architect of the Washington Monument, designed the

handsome, three-story Greek revival building. It was located near the Ohio River “with the

belief that that sound of the water and the river breezes would be restorative to the ailing sailors

who convalesced in the wide square rooms and broad front porches that faced the river,”

according to Rick Bell, director of the U.S. Marine

Hospital Foundation.

The building was last used as a hospital in the

1930s, and over time, the building’s glory faded. By the

1970s, it was being used for records storage and to

house the boiler plant for an adjacent healthcare center.

Although the hospital had been designated a National

Historic Landmark in 1997, by then, age and neglect

had begun to take a severe toll. “With water leaking

through the plaster at many points and the 65-year-old boiler cranking out heat, more and more

of the original plaster falls almost daily. Large sections of ceiling and wall give way on a regular

basis,” a preservation official wrote. The building’s situation was so dire that in 2003, the

National Trust for Historic Preservation put the Marine Hospital on its 11 Most Endangered

Places list.

A campaign to save the building had already generated commitments for funding from the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Kentucky Department of Transportation. However the

$375,000 Save America’s Treasures grant, awarded in 2003, was a pivotal moment, according to

Joanne Weeter, the Louisville Metro historic preservation officer. “In the minds of many

Louisville residents and officials, the building was simply a dirty, time-worn building that people

PHOTO BY RICK BELL
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passed as they went to work,” she said. The federal SAT

grant made it clear that the building was, indeed, of

national significance. The grant helped “instill a sense of

pride and stewardship” among Louisville residents and

has been a catalyst for further financial support, she said.

The massive restoration project––which includes

installing a new roof, restoring the porches and

reconstructing the cupola that had once adorned the

building––is expected to cost as much as $9 million.

But thanks to the SAT grant, roof and exterior wall

repairs are currently underway. The restoration

progress can be followed online through images from a

web cam focused on the hospital.

In addition to saving a worthy building, officials

hope that the hospital’s restoration will spark the

economic resurgence of its surrounding inner city

neighborhood.The city hopes to draw tourists to the

area by including a visitor and interpretive center on the

building’s first floor, with exhibits exploring the

building’s link to Louisville’s maritime history. And in a

nod to the hospital’s past, on upper floors, the restored

hospital will house the Center for Community Health

Education, Training and Research. Changing the U.S. Marine

Hospital’s status on the

National Trust for Historic

Preservation’s 11 Most

Endangered list included

among other tasks, peeling

away the walls, doorways

and windows that enclosed

the original exterior galleries. 

PHOTO BY RICK BELL

“One thing that strikes the visitor to the Marine Hospital at

Louisville is the perfect cleanliness of the entire building and

the absence of anything like the ‘hospital smell’ so often found

in institutions of this kind. The stairs, bare of carpet, gleam

almost like marble, while the floors are so clean that one walks

over them regretfully.”

— FROM AN 1888 ARTICLE IN THE LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL
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KEEPING ALIVE IMMIGRANT VOICES

Angel Island Immigration Station 

Poetry Conservation

GRANTEE: ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION FOUNDATION, 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

GRANT AMOUNT: $500,000 

YEAR: 2000

Hidden beneath layers of paint and putty on the walls of barracks at the Angel Island

Immigration Station is an extraordinary record of the hopes, fears and frustrations

of immigrants seeking a new life in America. Those walls are covered with more

than 200 poems written by Chinese immigrants detained at the Immigration Station in the early

20th century while awaiting entry decisions.

The Angel Island Immigration Station, located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, was the

major port of entry to the United States for immigrants from Pacific Rim countries from 1910

to 1940. While people of many different nationalities were funneled through the station, the

Chinese faced a uniquely discriminatory and grueling entry process because of the Chinese

Exclusion Act of 1882. That act and subsequent laws barred entry to Chinese laborers. Those

seeking entry had to prove that they were children of American citizens or meet other

exceptions written into the law. Immigrants waited days, weeks and, in some cases, even years,

while authorities investigated their claims. And while they waited, some composed poignant

poems about their experience.

“In America, people might take a picture when they want to capture an experience, but for

the Chinese, the tradition is, ‘I will write a poem,’” according to Erika Gee, director of education

for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF). In some cases, detainees used

ink and brush; in others, they actually carved characters into the soft wooden walls with carving

tools. While people of other nationalities also left writings on the walls, the most

numerous––and most carefully crafted musings––are the poems written by the Chinese.

Some poems express the sadness and frustration immigrants experienced during the

forced detention: 

Alone with my

own shadow,

handkerchief

soaked in tears

What crime did I

commit to deserve

this?

— FROM A POEM AT

THE ANGEL ISLAND

IMMIGRATION

STATION

Workman cleaning a barrack

wall. Using SAT funds, paint

and putty were removed to

reveal poems by Chinese

immigrants. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF

CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT

OF PARKS AND RECREATION

PHOTO BY CHRIS HUIE
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Dwelling in the wooden building, I give vent to despair

Searching for a living while perching on a mountain––it’s hard to earn glory

Letters do not arrive, my thoughts in vain

In bitterness and sadness, I watch for my early release.

Other poems speak of lessons learned:

When leaving home, don’t reveal your money to prying eyes!

On my pants I had six silver dollars

I hung these pants on the bed, without thinking

In a flash the money was stolen, and I’m so angry I cannot speak.

In fact, this unique historical record was almost lost to posterity. In the early part of the

20th-century, immigration officials had apparently viewed the writings simply as a type of

graffiti, and covered them over with paint and putty. It wasn’t until a ranger rediscovered the

poems in the 1970s that historians and scholars began to understand the amazing nature of the

record on these walls.

“Nothing existing in print about the immigration experience written during this period

comes close to rivaling the power of the poetry on Angel Island. The walls of the detention

barracks thus become truly unique in that they are akin to a rare fragile manuscript,” the AIISF

wrote in its application for a Save America’s Treasures grant to conserve this incredible resource.

Those poems––and, in fact, the whole immigration station itself––were threatened by years of

neglect, which had left buildings unstable and their walls open to the harsh effects of humidity

and salt air. In 2000, the foundation received a $500,000 SAT grant to help save the poems.

The AIISF has used the grant,which was matched by funds from the state of California,

to make the barracks building stable and watertight, to map out the location of poems (many of

which are still covered by paint), to translate newly discovered poems, and to protect them all

from further deterioration. A report on the poems will also guide interpretive exhibits and tours

at the site, where the poems will be highlighted with the use of lights and audio programs. The

AIISF has begun to work with the travel industry as well to promote Angel Island as a

destination for both national and international visitors.

“I think anybody can relate to the feeling of being left out or excluded,” Gee says. But what

makes the Angel Island visit so special is that people will learn about the detention experience

through the voices of those who experienced it, she says. “It is the voices of these poets––the

voyages they traveled, the hardships they tasted, the torment they endured and the mementos

they left to encourage fellow lost souls — that personalizes and humanizes the experience of

detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station.”
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RESTORING HOMES OF GREAT AMERICANS

Rowan Oak, Home of William Faulkner

National Historic Landmark 

GRANTEE: UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, OXFORD

GRANT AMOUNT: $300,000 

YEAR: 2001

Every year, some 20,000 people visit Rowan Oak, the home of celebrated American

author William Faulkner, hoping to learn more about the man by touring the place

he lived and worked. Faulkner purchased the Greek revival home in Oxford,

Mississippi, in 1930 and lived there until his death in 1962.

The home was a sanctuary of sorts for the famous writer. Its name refers to the wood of the

Rowan tree, which was said to ward off evil, and to the oak, a symbol of strength. And it was

here that he entered into his period of

greatest literary achievement.

The home,set among 33 acres of

farmland and woods, is furnished much as

it was at the time of Faulkner’s death.His

office is outfitted with his portable

Underwood typewriter, a small fold-top

desk and a few items like a bottle of ink and

a bottle of horse liniment.The walls still

carry Faulkner’s penciled outline for his

intricately plotted Pulitzer-prize winning

novel, A Fable. 

What visitors come away with is that

Faulkner’s “was a life lived without

pretense. He kept things simple and

comfortable,” explains curator William

Griffith. Visitors can also ponder how living

in the antebellum house in a small town in

Mississippi influenced Faulkner’s work,

which deals with such themes as the

decline of the southern aristocracy and

racial exploitation, Griffith says.

The 160-year old house — designated

a National Historic Landmark in 1968 —

was never meant to bear that kind of traffic

that Faulkner’s fame has brought, and the

house was badly in need of both basic

maintenance and modern upgrades to
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preserve its integrity and increase its safety, Griffith said.

The University of Mississippi, which owns the home, received a $300,000 Save America’s

Treasures congressional challenge grant in 2001. The university used the federal funds to

reinforce floors and staircases, and restore and repair plaster and wallpaper. The state of

Mississippi provided matching funds that were used to install climate control, electrical and

plumbing upgrades.

The repairs allow the house to continue to be used as a resource for scholars and other

visitors, Griffith said. “And, of course visitors can learn a lot more if they aren’t distracted by

wallpaper falling down in the middle of a tour,” he says.

Returning the house to its former glory was also a source of both pride and peace of mind

for the university and the community, Griffith said. “The SAT grant allowed us to do the work

that was necessary for the place to shine,” he said. “It is the polishing cloth that makes the jewel

shine.”

Workers strip paint as

part of the restoration 

of William Faulkner’s 

160-year-old Rowan Oak

home.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
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RENEWING ARCHITECTURAL GEMS

Frederick C. Robie House

National Historic Landmark 

GRANTEE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PRESERVATION TRUST, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

GRANT AMOUNT: $250,000 

YEAR: 2002

With its sweeping horizontal lines, dramatic overhanging roofs and long bands of

art-glass windows, the Frederick C. Robie House in Chicago is considered the

epitome of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s “prairie style.” Built in 1910 for

Robie, a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, the house was also the catalyst for a revolution in

residential architecture. Nearly a century after its completion, its clean, unadorned lines and

open, free-flowing spaces give the house an amazingly contemporary feel. The house was

designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and was also named one of the 12 most

important buildings of the 20th century by the American Institute of Architects.

A flat-roof is a challenge in a climate like Chicago’s that receives a great deal of snow each

year. A roof that had been installed in the 1960s—and that had departed from Wright’s original

design in some ways—had been failing for several years. Water penetration had compromised

the wood and steel framing, and had damaged exterior masonry walls, interior plaster and the

wooden housing for the building’s art-glass windows.

In 1997, the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust embarked on a 10-year, $8 million

external and internal renovation, designed to address damage and restore the house to its 1910

appearance. The Save America’s Treasures grant, awarded in 2000, was used to install a new

roof, containing a watertight membrane and new, custom-made clay tiles like those that were

incorporated in Wright’s original roof. Grant funds were also used to stabilize exterior masonry

walls, conserve concrete decks, restore plaster and conserve 60 art glass windows. The SAT

grant was matched by funds from the state of Illinois.

The SAT grant, coming at about the mid-point of the Preservation Trust’s effort to raise

funds for the exterior portion of the renovation, was helpful not only for the monies it

provided, but for spurring additional contributions to the ongoing renovation project. “It

helps to have the backing and approval of the federal government,” according to Karen

Sweeney, director of restoration. “The additional exposure created by the SAT grant

generated additional donations.”

The Robie House is owned by the University of Chicago, but maintained by the

Preservation Trust, which has continued to offer tours of the building throughout the

renovation process. The renovation “certainly enhanced community perception of and pride in

the structure,” according to Sweeney. “Once the exterior was completed, there was a marked

increase in tourism to the site,” she said.

Along with the stunning design and beautiful spaces, visitors are impressed by some

additional forward-thinking aspects of Wright’s work, she said. For example, even though the
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automobile had barely been invented at the time of the house’s construction, Wright included a

three-car garage in the plans. He also included a central vacuum system in the house.

The Preservation Trust is now tackling the first phase of the interior renovation and

continuing to raise funds for that portion of the project. When the restoration is complete, the

house will not only have a new lease on life, but will offer generations of Americans an

opportunity to experience Wright’s genius first-hand.

One of the foremost

buildings of the 20th

century, Frank Lloyd

Wright’s Robie House

was the only one he

fought to save from

demolition––twice. 

ROBIE HOUSE INTERIOR,

PHOTOGRAPHER: TIM LONG,

COLLECTION OF FRANK

LLOYD WRIGHT

PRESERVATION TRUST.
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RESCUING THE COLONIAL PAST

La Salle Shipwreck Conservation

GRANTEE: TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION, AUSTIN, TEXAS

GRANT AMOUNT: $300,000

YEAR: 2002

I

n 1995, a team of marine archaeologists from the Texas Historical Commission (THC)

discovered one of the most important shipwrecks ever found in North America — the

remains of La Belle,a ship that French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle,

had sailed to the New World on a failed attempt to establish a colony along the Mississippi

River.

What made the find extraordinary was not only that it was the ship of a famous explorer,

but that the contents of the 300-year-old vessel — which had sunk in a storm in 1686 in

Matagorda Bay off the coast of what is now Texas — were remarkably intact. Many objects were

found exactly where they had been stowed in storage compartments in the vessel’s hull. And

because the ship had been buried under several feet of sediment,an environment in which

bacteria do not flourish, the objects — including organic materials like cloth, leather, rope and

the wooden hull itself — were remarkably well-preserved.

The excavation of the ship produced more than a million artifacts altogether. These

included wonderfully preserved wooden barrels and boxes still packed with goods intended for

the colony, including tools, muskets, hunting equipment, brass pots, candlesticks and empty

wine bottles.Archaeologists also found ornate brass cannons for defending the eventual colony.

The excavation also unearthed items for trade with Indians, such as needles and hundreds of

The remains of the 

300-year old “LaBelle,”

in which archaeologists

uncovered more than a

million artifacts that

needed immediate

conservation.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE

TEXAS HISTORICAL

COMMISSION
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thousands of tiny glass beads. The items amounted to “ a kit for building

a colony in the New World in the 17th century,” according to Jim

Bruseth, director of the THC’s Archaeology Division.

But while the magnitude of the recovery constituted a “blessing of

riches,” the enormous find also created an urgent challenge, Bruseth said.

Each of the priceless items needed to be cleaned and treated to

counteract the effects of centuries of saturation in seawater. If

conservation could not be done expeditiously, many of the artifacts would

deteriorate severely once they were exposed to air.

The Save America’s Treasures grant, awarded in 2002 for

conservation of the artifacts, came at a critical period, after the project had

exhausted $1.4 million in state and private funds. Because the grant “was

an endorsement of the great significance of our find,” it also helped spark

additional contributions from a wide variety of other sources,according

to Bruseth. In addition to the state of Texas, numerous foundations,

corporations and individuals have contributed to the conservation effort.

As the objects are conserved, they are being made available to a

consortium of seven museums along the coast of Texas. Exhibitions

featuring these rare objects are expected to increase heritage tourism, a

boon for the central Texas Gulf Coast economy, Bruseth pointed out.

Those exhibitions tell the story of LaSalle’s failed venture in the

New World and reveal how the loss of a vessel possibly changed the

course of North America’s history. La Salle—who had claimed the vast

region surrounding the Mississippi River for France on an earlier

expedition—was off looking for the Mississippi River on foot with a party

of men in 1686 when La Belle was lost at anchor off the Texas coast.

Had his vessel survived, and had La Salle eventually found his way up

the Mississippi River to establish his French colony, would America’s

mid-section be filled with French speaking inhabitants today? 

No one can say for sure, but the amazing artifacts reclaimed with the help of an SAT grant,

offer a tantalizing tale of a failed dream.

Top, a specialist cleans one of

the artifacts from LaSalle’s

“LaBelle,” which

archaeologists (above) brought

up from the bottom of

Matagorda Bay off the Texas

coast. 
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SAFEGUARDING THE NATION’S HISTORICAL RECORD

Preservation of Revolutionary War Documents

GRANTEE: NEW JERSEY STATE ARCHIVES, TRENTON, NEW JERSEY

GRANT AMOUNT: $347,000

YEAR: 2004

Located between the British stronghold of New York City and the seat of the

Continental Congress in Philadelphia, New Jersey was one of the main theaters of

the Revolutionary War. Between 1775 and 1782, nearly 300 battles took place in 

this strategically important state.

Among the holdings of the New Jersey State Archives are tens of thousands of pages of

war-related documents that touch upon every aspect of the conflict and that tell the story of the

Revolutionary War from a variety of perspectives. Military records include eyewitness accounts

of battles. Court papers describe the prosecution of criminals charged with sedition and

treason. Council of Safety records document efforts to root out Loyalists in a state where a

portion of the population remained faithful to the British Crown. Damage claims inventory 

the impact of the conflict on individuals and families—the homes and barns destroyed as armies

marched through communities, the cows and sheep being taken to feed hungry 

troops, and the horses and oxen commandeered into service.

What makes this collection so significant is that it predates many of the documents held in

the National Archives in Washington, DC, points out Joseph Klett, chief of the New Jersey State

Archives. And because the documents deal with events of national significance, they are

important not just to New Jersey, but to students of American history, as well.

In addition, many of the manuscripts in the archives’ collection provide a sense of the

personal impact of the war “that you might not get from more lofty documents,” Klett says.

They contain accounts “by people unknown to the history books, telling us things that we

didn’t know before,” he says.

However, by the early 21st century, the 225-year-old records were suffering from the effects

of time, handling, improper repairs and substandard storage conditions. Many had become so

fragile that they could no longer be used for research or exhibition. And none of the collections

was well enough preserved to allow for microfilming or scanning. Unless the documents were

conserved, thousands of pages of documentation would continue to crumble and be lost to

future generations, Klett said.

In 2004 the archives received a $347,000 Save America’s Treasures grant that generated a

1:1 match from the state—funds that otherwise would have been absorbed into the state’s

general treasury—to begin desperately needed conservation treatment of more than 5,000 pages

of Revolutionary War documents.

The size of the SAT grant allowed the archives to consider preservation on a scale that

would not have been possible under other grant programs, Klett said. Grants for this kind of

conservation from other sources typically range from $10,000 to $20,000, and with grants of
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that size an institution can tackle only a limited segment of their collection and must approach

conservation in a piecemeal fashion. The SAT grant, by contrast, allowed the state archives to

look at its full Revolutionary War collection, identify priorities and proceed with conservation of

those groups of records most critical to the public and most in need of preservation, Klett said.

“The SAT grant makes us better archivists because it allows archivists and record keepers to

stand back and say, ‘What should we be doing? What’s the most important stuff here?’”

The New Jersey State Archives is about a third of the way through its three-year project of

cleaning, repairing and deacidifying the manuscript pages. As the conserved material has come

back from the conservator, the archivists have begun microfilming and scanning documents for

inclusion on its website. “The public very soon will have access to documents that had been

closed, or could not be fully read,” Klett said. Moreover, by putting the documents on its website,

the state archives can now promote research into the Revolutionary War, and New Jersey’s role in

it, “in ways that were not feasible prior to conservation treatment,” according to Klett. With the

aid of the SAT grant, “we’re making it possible for new history to be written,” he said.

Two examples of

thousands of documents

whose tears,

fragmentation,

discoloration, fraying

and creases threaten to

obliterate first-hand

accounts of the

Revolutionary War. 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF 

THE NEW JERSEY STATE

ARCHIVES

“The galleys drew up very close to the ship, and a smart, dreadful

firing there was such as my heart and eyes recoiled at. And I

forbore not to say ‘alas’for you my brethren on both sides. Who

can behold this unnatural scene but with horror? Oh when, where

and how will this unhappy contest end?”

— ACCOUNT OF A NAVAL BATTLE ON THE DELAWARE RIVER, MAY 8, 1776
RESTORING A NATIONAL PARK CROWN JEWEL

Conservation of Cliff Dwellings

World Cultural Heritage Site

GRANTEE: MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, CORTEZ, COLORADO

GRANT AMOUNT: $1.5 MILLION

YEAR: 1999

Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors are drawn to Mesa Verde National Park

to marvel at the multi-story cliff dwellings, built between 1150 and 1300 A.D. by the

Northern San Juan Ancestral Pueblo culture. And visitors are amazed that dwellings

built of stone and mud could have survived for 700 years, according to park officials.

But, in fact, the dwellings are not as immune to the ravages of time as they might appear.

Although the sites on view to the public receive regular maintenance, these represent only a

fraction of the 600 cliff dwellings under the care of the park. Many of these so-called “back

country” sites had received little attention through the years, and some were deteriorating at an

alarming rate. Centuries of exposure to sun and wind were causing plasters and surface finishes

to fade and flake off, while changes in drainage patterns had resulted in water damage to some

walls and foundations.

In the mid-1990s, the park had developed a comprehensive program of condition

assessment of sites, architectural documentation, stabilization and monitoring to try to address

the site-preservation backlog. The park also worked with experts from the University of

Pennsylvania to begin to assess and document the condition of plastered surfaces in the cliff

dwellings and to develop techniques for doing

the needed repairs.Among other things,

experts had to determine the best way to readhere flakes of 700-year-old plaster and

identify a type of grout that would be

compatible with the original mud-and-water

mortar.

But then the question became where to

find the funds––estimated at millions of

dollars—to support conservation on the massive

scale required to protect the most threatened

cliff dwellings.Although Mesa Verde had long

been considered one of the jewels of the

National Park System—and had been named

Mesa Verde’s Cliff Palace is only one of a fraction of

more than 600 cliff dwelling managed by the park.

Using SAT funds, in-depth documentation revealed

this site as a food re-distribution center. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK 

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the first World Cultural Heritage Site—a large-scale conservation project was well

beyond the park’s regular maintenance budget. And even with the help of grants,

in a typical year, the park might receive $50,000 or $100,000 for conservation

work—“if we were lucky,” according to Linda Towle, chief of research and

resource management.

The answer came in 1999, in the form of a $1.5 million Save America’s

Treasures grant. The grant—one of the largest ever awarded by the program—was

matched by funds raised by the National Trust for Historic Preservation from American

Express, the Colorado Historical Fund and private donations.

With that large infusion of funds, the park was able to greatly speed up its conservation

efforts,accomplishing in a few years what otherwise might have required a decade or longer to

complete, Towle said. The grant allowed the park to hire dozens of employees and to develop a

cadre of trained staff who could perform the painstaking preservation tasks.

Altogether, with the SAT funds, the park was able to assess the condition and document

the patterns of color use and symbols painted on the interiors of about 100 dwelling sites.

Funds were then used to conserve 30 of the sites deemed most in need of preservation.

Some of the grant funds were also used to help the park do in-depth documentation of the

construction and evolution of the dwellings. This provided new understanding of how the

buildings were planned, how the rooms were used and even how many family groups lived in a

given structure. This kind of analysis has now led the park to believe, for example, that Cliff

Palace, one of the largest and best known of the dwellings, was actually a major ceremonial and

food redistribution site.

A portion of the grant was also used to help visitors understand more about the

conservation effort itself. The park stationed an interpreter at Spruce Tree House while

conservation was in progress, to explain why and how the park was tackling the repair project.

The park staff also trained tour guides from the Traveler’s Conservation Foundation, a

charitable foundation formed by the United States Tour Operators Association, in

documentation techniques so they could better inform their customers during visits to the park.

Mesa Verde also began a series of Sister Park relationships with parks in Belize and Mexico, and

shared the documentation and stabilization techniques developed with help of the grant.

Towle said that the timing of the SAT grant could not have been better. “The grant

showed up at just the right time,” she said. “We had a trained staff in place, and our noninvasive techniques had been developed. It made a significant difference in the park’s ability to

evaluate and manage these irreplaceable treasures.”

Several generations of

employees such as these in

1934 have helped

stabilize these structures.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MESA

VERDE NATIONAL PARK 
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PRESERVING LANDMARKS OF DEMOCRACY

Sewall-Belmont House Restoration

National Historic Landmark

GRANTEE: NATIONAL WOMAN’S PARTY, WASHINGTON, D.C.

GRANT AMOUNT: $500,000 

YEAR: 1999

Since 1929, the Sewall-Belmont House, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,

has been the headquarters of the National Woman’s Party. It was also the home of the

party’s founder, Alice Paul, until 1972. Paul was a brilliant strategist and tireless

suffrage leader who played a key role in the final phase of the struggle for women’s right to vote.

She employed dramatic, nonviolent resistance tactics––protest parades, White House

demonstrations and hunger strikes—that finally achieved victory in 1920.

The headquarters is a handsome Federalist-style structure built by Robert Sewall in 1800.

The building was named for him and for Alva Belmont, a staunch supporter of women’s

The Sewall-Belmont

House was one of dozens

of Save America’s

Treasures projects

recognized by the

National Trust for

Historic Preservation’s

multi-million dollar

public affairs initiative

with Home & Garden

Television that raised

matching funds and

awareness for these

restoration efforts. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF

SEWALL-BELMONT HOUSE
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suffrage, who donated funds to purchase the headquarters building. One of the nation’s premier

women’s history sites, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

In the early 1990s, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) decided to turn a portion of the

home into a museum to tell the story of women’s quest for full equality. The organization

houses one of the largest intact suffrage collections in the country, including Susan B. Anthony’s

desk, political cartoons, banners carried during parades and pickets and the marble busts of

famous suffragists. But while the collections were in stable condition, the building itself had

suffered the effects of years of deferred maintenance. The mansard roof had deteriorated,

windows were leaking and water had damaged structural members and walls.

In 1999, the Sewall-Belmont House received a $500,000 Save America’s Treasures grant

for restoration. The building was one of only four projects—along with the Declaration of

Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Star-Spangled Banner—designated to receive a

line-item appropriation in the original Save America’s Treasures legislation.

With the assistance of the grant, the National Woman’s Party was able to hire historic

preservation experts to develop a detailed restoration plan and to undertake extensive repairs.

Contractors replaced the roof and gutters, restored the windows, and repaired damaged masonry

and brickwork on the house’s exterior. Grants funds were also used to replace the HVAC system

in the house,reinforce floors, replace leaky pipes and install a new accessible bathroom.

The grant helped the organization grapple with expensive repairs that would have

otherwise been impossible to address in a timely manner. “Without the grant, we’d still be

figuring out how to repair the house,” says executive director Amy Conroy. Moreover, the

restoration was planned in such a way that the NWP could keep the building open to the public

during most of the process with minor disruption.

The grant was also helpful because the matching requirement “gave us a vehicle for talking

to people” about the building’s needs, Conroy said. The grant provided an opportunity to

reach out to both new and old donors and SAT’s matching requirement was a built-in 

incentive—“we could tell prospective donors that their dollars would be twice as effective,”

Conroy added. As a result, the NWP was able to make the $500,000 match mainly though

thousands of small donations. “I can almost count on the fingers of my hands the contributions

that were $5,000 or greater,” Conroy says.

The renovations are now complete and the museum is proving a popular draw for 

tourists and school groups.And one added benefit of the house’s restoration is that the 

building is now suitable for rental for special events, which adds life and economic vitality 

to this historic house.
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STABILIZING THE VANISHING PAST

Kinishba Ruins Stabilization

National Historic Landmark-Watch List 

GRANTEE: WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE, WHITERIVER, ARIZONA

GRANT AMOUNT: $283,000

YEAR: 2002

I

n a spectacular setting in a pine-rimmed Arizona valley lie the massive ruins of an

ancestral Pueblo village known as Kinishba, an Apache term meaning “brown house.”

The village, which was inhabited beginning in 1150 A.D., includes several multi-level,

apartment-style buildings, skillfully crafted of sandstone, mortar and ponderosa pine poles.

Altogether, there were at least 600 rooms in the complex, making it one of the largest such

villages of its type and period.

The inhabitants—ancestors of present day Hopis and Zunis––were maize farmers who

abandoned the site in the 1400s. Oral traditions indicate that the occupants left this village to

pursue destinies to the north. “This was a powerful cultural complex with many important

spiritual aspects to it,” says John Welch, a heritage stewardship expert who was formerly the

historic preservation officer for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The site is on Apache tribal

lands.

Over the centuries, wind and water had eaten away at the mortar that held Kinishba’s

buildings together,and gradually the structures collapsed into great mounds of stone and debris.

In the 1930s and 40s,the venerable University of Arizona archaeologist Byron Cummings had

recognized the importance of the site and, working with Apache masonry workers, had

undertaken an ambitious effort to excavate and reconstruct some of the buildings. His idea was to

“use them as a source of American Indian pride, education and tourist-related education,”

according to Welch. Although his project was well-intentioned, the field of masonry ruins

preservation was in its infancy, and Cummings––who worked on the project into his eighties—

unwittingly may have done more harm than good. He rebuilt more than 140 of the rooms and

installed flat roofs made from concrete that were not in keeping with the character of the site and

used inappropriate materials in walls, among other changes. And almost before the work was

finished,Cummings’reconstruction began to deconstruct.

Even so, the site had long been popular with tourists, and after Kinishba was designated a

National Historic Landmark in 1964, its popularity continued to grow. By the 1990s as many as

10,000 visitors a year were flocking to the unsupervised site, which could be accessed by a

rough road running through the Apache tribal lands. People scrambling over the ruins and

poking around the unstable rooms posed a threat both to the site and to themselves, and some

visitors were partying and drinking in the plazas and ceremonial rooms that American Indians

considered sacred space, Welch remarked. Each of Kinishba’s primary groups had been built

around a central courtyard or plaza that was an important area for ceremonies and other group

activities in the Pueblo culture, which was a highly communal and cooperative society,

according to Welch.
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Recognizing that a total reconstruction of Kinishba’s buildings would be “fantastically

expensive,” the tribe opted instead to leave the area as ruins. “We focused on the preservation of

the form and outline of the original pueblo, together with examples of the ingenious Apache

masonry from the 1930s,”Welch said. “The setting is spectacular, and all of the affected tribes

wanted people to experience what it was like to walk quietly through this ancient ruin and

experience a sense of place, and to be able to walk through the plaza and feel surrounded by the

community.”

The Kinishba restoration was conceived as part of a larger project to redevelop the Fort

Apache historic district in an effort to expand heritage tourism and generate additional revenue

for the tribe.This approach—detailed in a preservation and visitor use plan developed in 1997

in conjunction with the National Park Service—appealed to the Save America’s Treasures

program, which in 2002 awarded the White Mountain Apache tribe a $283,000 grant. “There

aren’t any other grants of this size available for these types of projects, so it was an absolutely

critical, keystone grant,” Welch says. The SAT grant spurred a matching grant from the Arizona

State Heritage Fund, administered by Arizona State Parks. The National Park Service also

joined in the effort, helping to train a cadre of local tribal members in masonry ruins

preservation techniques.

The workers set about removing historically incompatible materials used in the Cummings

reconstruction, clearing away debris, stabilizing walls and capping them so they would shed

water better. Without the SAT grant, “we would have frittered away with week-long masonry

ruins preservation workshops until I was older and grayer than Byron Cummings, and this

place still would have looked about the same,” Welch said.

The Kinishba ruins are

an example of how

successive generations

have cared for the priceless

legacy of their ancestors,

most recently with a SAT

award to stabilize and

restore a sacred sense 

of place. 

PHOTO COURTESY OF 

THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 

APACHE TRIBE
SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES 

AWARDS, 1999–2005

Save America’s Treasures awards—both its competitive and

congressionally designated grants—from 1999 through

2005* helped address the most prevalent threats to projects

representing the whole diversity of our national experience from

restoring places and buildings to conserving journals and collections

to rescuing steam engines and artistic works. Congressional

designations or earmarks in general are responsive to a community’s

interest in preserving their local or regional cultural or historic

treasures. The competitive awards focus on access, equity and

excellence, using a rigorous process and the benchmark standards of

the National Historic Landmarks program to evaluate and address the

threats to our nation’s most significant treasures. Together, Save

America’s Treasures has awarded more than $217 million matched

1:1 by funds from states, localities, corporations, foundations and

individuals. The overwhelming majority of the 233 National Historic

Landmarks to receive Save America’s Treasures funding were awarded

through the competitive program and these grants were critical in

raising the percentage of NHLs reported in good condition.

However, these NHLs represent only a fraction of the breadth and

scale of the nation’s cultural and historic legacy held in trust for all

Americans. This report has highlighted the value of this larger legacy,

the very real threats to its future and how SAT’s relatively small

investment has made a difference in galvanizing public and private

efforts in carrying forward the work of generations in keeping this

legacy alive. Every one of the grants in this table represent the efforts of

engineers, dancers, historians, archivists, conservators, carpenters,

plumbers,masons and hundreds of others who have contributed with

the help of SAT to rescuing, restoring and saving these irreplaceable

pieces of our democracy and national story.

Despite its looks, this ancient

wooden figure is fragile. Without

care and conservation, this

Hawaiian religious image is

subject to harm from termites,

humidity and other

environmental threats.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BISHOP

MUSEUM

*Awards represented in this table are subject to cancellation for failure to meet requirements.

APPENDIX

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ALABAMA 

Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham $ 215,000 2005 C,NHL

Boligee Street Historic Preservation $ 400,000 2005 E

Gaineswood, Demopolis $ 260,000 2005 C, NHL

King Memorial Baptist Church, Montegomery $ 100,000 2005 E, NHL

Somerville Courthouse , Somerville $ 95,000 2005 E

Winston Courthouse, Double Springs $ 95,000 2005 E

Grand Jury Building, Eutaw $ 429,639 2004 E

Pastime Theatre, Winfield $ 49,385 2004 E

Pond Spring (Gen. Joseph Wheeler Home), Hillsboro $ 148,152 2004 E

Ward Chapel AME Episcopal Church & Museum, Prattville $ 197,535 2004 E

Greene County Courthouse Square Historic District, Eutaw $ 298,000 2003 E

Oral History Recordings, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Tuskegee $ 162,000 2002 C

Fort Mitchell, Phenix City $ 300,000 2002 E, NHL

Harrison Brothers Hardware, Huntsville $ 100,000 2002 E

Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton $ 100,000 2002 E

USS Alabama, Mobile $ 250,000 2002 E, NHL

Founders Hall, Athens State University $ 100,000 2001 E

Huntsville Depot, Huntsville $ 75,000 2001 E

National Voting Rights Museum, Selma $ 249,000 2001 E

Pond Spring (Gen. Joseph Wheeler Home), Hillsboro $ 362,000 2001 E

Princess Theater, Decatur $ 125,000 2001 E

Rosa Parks Museum, Troy State Univ.-Montgomery $ 404,000 2001 E

Vulcan Statue, Birmingham $ 1,497,000 2001 E

Saturn V Rocket, Huntsville $ 700,000 2000* E

Tannehill / Brierfield Ironworks, McCalla $ 250,000 2000 E

Sloss Furnace, Birmingham $ 207,275 1999 C, NHL

Alabama Competitive: $ 844,275 4

Alabama Earmark: $ 6,339,711 23

Alabama Total Funding: $ 7,183,986 27

ALASKA 

1934-1935 Alaska College Expedition Collection, Fairbanks $ 163,000 2005 C

Alyeska Roundhouse $ 200,000 2005 E

Japonski Island Boathouse, Sitka $ 325,000 2005 C, NHL

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE

C = competitive award

E = congressional earmark

NHL = National Historic Landmark
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Five Fingers Lighthouse, Juneau $ 197,535 2004 E

Judge Wickersham House, Juneau $ 298,000 2003 E

Alaska Moving Image Preservation, Anchorage $ 500,000 2002 E

Kennecott Archives, Wrangell-St. Elias NP&P $ 61,190 2001 C

First Avenue Historic District, Fairbanks $ 299,000 2001 E

Point Retreat Lighthouse, near Juneau $ 299,000 2001 E

Sitka Pioneer Home, Sitka $ 150,000 2000 E

Unalaska Aerology Building, Unalaska $ 100,000 2000 E

Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage $ 730,980 1999 C

Fort Egbert, Eagle $ 50,000 1999 C,NHL

Recreation Hall, Kennecott Mines, Wrangell - St. Elias NP&P $ 75,000 1999 C, NHL

Alaska Competitive: $ 1,405,170 6

Alaska Earmark: $ 2,043,535 8

Alaska Total Funding: $ 3,448,705 14

ARIZONA 

Ansel Adams Collection, Tuscon $ 270,000 2005 C

Mission San Xavier del Bac, Patronato San Xavier, Tucson $ 250,000 2004 C, NHL

Taliesen West, Scottsdale $ 74,076 2004 E, NHL

Navajo Nation Council Chamber, Window Rock $ 250,000 2003 C, NHL

Vista del Rio, Tucson $ 50,000 2003 E

Kinishba Ruins, Whiteriver $ 283,000 2002 C

Phoenix Indian School Memorial Hall, Phoenix $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL

Titan Missile Museum, Tucson $ 200,000 2001 E

The Pottery Project, Tucson $ 400,000 2000 C

Honanki Cliff Dwellings, Coconino NF, Sedona $ 94,310 1999 C

Mission San Jose de Tumacacori, Tumacacori NHP $ 85,500 1999 C, NHL

Theodore Roosevelt School, Fort Apache $ 313,000 1999 C

Vail Ranch House, Sonoita $ 95,300 1999 C

Arizona Competitive: $ 2,241,110 10

Arizona Earmark: $ 324,076 3

Arizona Total Funding: $ 2,565,186 13

ARKANSAS 

Eureka Springs Historic Auditorium $ 248,000 2003 E

Lakeport Plantation Home, Lake Village $ 320,000 2002 C

Great Hall, Camp Ouachita, Thornburg $ 365,000 2002 E

Central High School NHS, Little Rock $2,000,000 2001 E, NHL

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
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Central High School NHS, Little Rock $ 500,000 2000 C, NHL

Arkansas Competitive: $ 820,000 2

Arkansas Earmark: $2,613,000 3

Arkansas Total Funding: $3,433,000 5

CALIFORNIA 

Anthropology Audio Visual Collection, Berkeley $ 180,000 2005 C

Bodie Historic Mining District, Bridgeport $ 275,000 2005 C, NHL

First Church of Christ, Berkeley $ 550,000 2005 C, NHL

History of New American Music Preservation Project, Berkeley $ 180,000 2005 C

El Gracis Train Depot, Needles $ 200,000 2005 E

Monterey Jazz Festival Audio Collection, Stanford $ 225,000 2005 C

Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Pasadena $ 200,000 2005 C

Rios Caledonia Adobe, Paso Robles $ 200,000 2005 E

Old U.S. Mint, San Francisco $ 300,000 2005 E, NHL

Locke Historic Building House, Locke $ 500,000 2004 C,NHL

Thomas Hansford William House, Gold Discovery Park 

Association, Coloma $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL

Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Los Angeles $ 500,000 2004 C

R. Buckminster Fuller Recordings at Stanford University, Stanford $ 128,000 2004 C

Leo Carillo Ranch, Carlsbad $ 197,535 2004 E

Emporium Building, San Francisco $ 197,535 2004 E

Estudillo Mansion, San Jacinto $ 246,919 2004 E

Fremont Adobe, Monterey $ 148,152 2004 E

Lopez Adobe, San Fernando $ 148,152 2004 E

Anthropology Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of 

Natural History, Santa Barbara $ 82,500 2003 C

SS Jeremiah O’Brien, San Francisco $ 200,000 2003 C,NHL

Fox Theater, Stockton $ 199,000 2003 E

Touro University School of Nursing, Vallejo $ 248,000 2003 E

Gamble House, Pasadena $ 350,000 2002 C

Keystone-Mast Stereographic Collection, Riverside $ 500,000 2002 C

Pier 1, San Francisco Port of Embarkation, Golden Gate 

National Recreation Area, San Francisco $ 341,000 2002 C, NHL

Ferryboat Berkeley, San Diego $ 200,000 2001 C

Grabhorn Institute for the Printing Arts, San Francisco $ 50,000 2001 C

U.S.S. Hornet, Alameda $ 150,000 2001 C, NHL

Tachi-Yokut History & Cultural Center, Coalinga $ 274,000 2001 E

Angel Island Immigration Station, Tiburon $ 500,000 2000 C, NHL

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
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Knight Foundry, Sutter Creek $ 250,000 2000 C

Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano $ 320,000 2000 E

Perimeter Fence, Manzanar NHS $ 150,000 1999 C, NHL

Saving the Silent Films, San Francisco $ 1,000,000 1999 C

California Competitive: $ 6,711,500 22

California Earmark: $ 2,679,293 12

California Total Funding: $ 9,390,793 34

COLORADO 

Elitch Gardens Theatre, Denver $ 300,000 2005 C

Naropa Audio Archive, Naropa University, Boulder $ 100,000 2003 C

Montrose City Hall $ 248,000 2003 E

Colorado Fuel & Iron Company Archives, Pueblo $ 102,000 2002 C

Yellow Jacket and Shields Pueblos Artifact Collections, Cortez $ 65,000 2002 C

Collections, Mesa Verde NP $ 356,350 2001 C

Museo de las Americas, Denver $ 110,000 2001 E

Old First National Bank, Telluride $ 250,000 2000 E, NHL

Cliff Dwellings, Mesa Verde NP $ 1,497,672 1999 C

San Juan Mining District Structures, Hinsdale & San Juan $ 64,806 1999 C

Southwest Colorado Collections, Dolores $ 176,135 1999 C

Colorado Competitive: $ 2,911,963 9

Colorado Earmark: $ 358,000 2

Colorado Total Funding: $3,269,963 11

CONNECTICUT 

First Congregational Church $ 300,000 2005 E

Weir Farm, Wilton $ 147,916 2005 E, NHL

Joseph Webb House, Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield $ 150,000 2004 C, NHL

Litchfield Meetinghouse, First Congressional Church 

of Litchfield, Litchfield $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL

Cheney Brothers Machine Shop, Manchester $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL

Avery Point Lighthouse, Groton $ 98,768 2004 E

Henry Whitfield House, Guilford $ 148,152 2004 E

John Rogers Sculpture Groups and Studio, New Canaan $ 95,000 2003 C, NHL 

Lyme Art Colony Panel Paintings, Florence Griswold House, Old Lyme $ 150,000 2003 C, NHL 

Oral History, American Music, Yale University School of Music 

and Library, New Haven $ 148,000 2003 C

Charles W. Morgan, Mystic Seaport, Mystic $ 343,000 2003 E, NHL 

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
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Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford $ 250,000 2002 C

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme $ 100,000 2002 E, NHL 

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington $ 115,000 2002 E, NHL 

Mark Twain House Annex, Hartford $ 998,000 2001 E, NHL 

Mark Twain House (Nook Farm), Hartford $2,000,000 2000 E, NHL 

Connecticut Competitive $ 1,193,000 7

Connecticut Earmark $ 4,250,836 9

Connecticut Total Funding $ 5,443,836 16

DELAWARE 

Bellance Air Service Hanger $ 300,000 2005 E

Overfalls Lightship WLV539, Lewes $ 275,000 2005 C

Smyrna Opera House & Town Hall, Smyrna $ 298,000 2003 E

New Castle Courthouse, New Castle $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL 

Lewes Maritime Park, Lewes $ 998,000 2001 E

Delaware Competitive $ 475,000 2

Delaware Earmark $ 1,596,000 3

Delaware Total Funding $ 2,071,000 5

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Decatur House $ 100,000 2005 E, NHL 

The Octagon $ 225,000 2005 C, NHL 

Revolutionary War Orderly Books $ 67,000 2005 C

Mary Church Terrell House $ 260,000 2004 C, NHL 

Bureau of American Ethnology Photograph Collection, 

Smithsonian Institution $ 153,500 2003 C

Washington Star Photograph Collection, District of Columbia 

Public Library $ 75,000 2003 C

World Trade Center Model, Octagon Museum Prints & Drawings Collection $ 62,000 2002 C

Scurlock Photographic Studio Records, Smithsonian Institution $ 125,000 2002 C

Tudor Place $ 100,000 2002 C, NHL

Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square $ 390,000 2001 C

Woodrow Wilson House $ 150,000 2001 C

Anderson Cottage $ 750,000 2000 C, NHL 

Historic Sound Recording Collections, Smithsonian Institution $ 750,000 2000 C

The Charter Murals, National Archives Building $ 500,000 2000 C

Three Collections of American Dance, Dance Heritage Coalition $ 90,000 2000 C

Apollo Space Program Artifacts, National Air & Space Museum $ 1,350,000 1999 C

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURES

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Artwork Collection, National Anthropological Archives, 

Smithsonian Insititution $ 228,664 1999 C

Benjamin B. Ferencz Collection, US Holocaust Memorial $ 54,736 1999 C

Congressional Cemetery $ 52,880 1999 C

Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art $ 52,500 1999 C

Permanent Collection of Sculpture, National Gallery of Art $ 50,310 1999 C

Washington Monument $ 1,131,242 1999 C

Sewall-Belmont House $ 500,000 1999 E, NHL

Star-Spangled Banner $3,000,000 1999 E

DC Competitive $ 6,617,832 21

DC Earmark $3,600,000 3

DC Total Funding $ 10,217,832 24

FLORIDA 

Singing Tower at Bok Sanctuary, Lake Wales $ 450,000 2005 C, NHL 

Ximenez-Fatio House, St. Augustine $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL

Sears Art Deco Tower, Miami $ 123,460 2004 E

Eagle Film City/Richard Norman Silent Film Studios, Jacksonville $ 225,000 2003 C

Biltmore Hotel & Complex, Coral Cables $ 795,000 2003 E

Ferdinand Magellan, Presidential Pullman Railroad Car, Hollywood $ 250,000 2002 C, NHL

Tampa Bay Hotel, Tampa $ 400,000 2002 C, NHL 

Ponce de Leon Hotel, Flagler College, St. Augustine $ 400,000 2001 C, NHL

Colony Theater, Miami Beach $ 835,000 2001 E

Osceola County Courthouse, Kissimmee $ 499,000 2001 E

Historic buildings, Tarpon Springs $ 150,000 2000 E

Ca d’ Zan, Sarasota $ 353,147 1999 C

Pelican Island NWR, Sebastian $ 57,711 1999 C, NHL

Florida Competitive $ 3,305,858 8

Florida Earmark $ 2,402,460 5

Florida Total Funding $ 4,738,318 13

GEORGIA 

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Atlanta $ 97,550 2005 C

Albany Theatre $ 150,000 2005 E

Central of Georgia’s Gray Building, Savannah $ 290,000 2005 C, NHL 

Morehouse College African American Archival Program $ 100,000 2005 E

Stewart County Courthouse $ 125,000 2005 E

Andrew Low House, Savannah $ 250,000 2004 C, NHL

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
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Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, Athens $ 350,000 2004 C

Grand Opera House, Mercer University, Macon $ 246,919 2004 E

Hardman Art Building, Mercer University, Macon $ 148,152 2004 E

Civil War Naval Flag Collection, Port Columbus National Civil War 

Naval Museum, Columbus $ 68,000 2003 C

North End Plantation Tabby Buildings, Ossabaw Island $ 400,000 2003 C

Battlefield Park Heritage Center $ 298,000 2003 E

Ma Rainey Museum of the Blues $ 149,000 2003 E

Horton House, Jekyll Island $ 250,000 2001 C

Ebenezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS $ 620,398 1999 C

Georgia Competitive $ 2,325,948 8

Georgia Earmark $ 1,217,071 7

Georgia Total Funding $ 3,543,019 15

HAWAII 

Chamberlain House, Honolulu $ 310,000 2002 C

Hawaiian Cultural Collection, Bishop Museum, Honolulu $ 75,000 2002 C

Bishop Museum Moving Image Collection, Honolulu $ 50,000 2002 E

Koloko Fishpond, Koloko-Honokau NHP $ 200,000 2001 C

USS Missouri, Honolulu $ 300,000 2000 C

Hawaii Competitive $ 885,000 4

Hawaii Earmark $ 50,000 1

Hawaii Total Funding $ 935,000 5

IDAHO 

Carey Act Maps, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise $ 73,000 2002 C

Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, Scoville $ 320,000 1999 C, NHL

Idaho Competitive $ 393,000 2

Idaho Earmark $ 0 0

Idaho Total Funding $ 393,000 2

ILLINOIS 

Carlson Cottage, Chicago $ 250,000 2005 C

Chicago Urban League Records, Chicago $ 100,000 2005 C

Native American Archaeological Collection, Kampsville $ 325,000 2005 C

Orpheum Theatre $ 250,000 2005 E

Carl Sandburg Collection at the Univ. of Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign, Urbana $ 239,000 2004 C

NAME & LOCATION AMOUNT YEAR TYPE
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Adlai Stevenson House, Mettawa $ 98,768 2004 E

Feehan Memorial Library, Mundelein $ 197,535 2004 E

DuPage Theatre, Lombard $ 296,303 2004 E

Fountain of Time, Chicago $ 250,000 2003 C

Riverside Water Tower, Riverside $ 275,000 2003 C, NHL 

Teeple Barn, Elgin $ 149,000 2003 E

Columbus Park, Chicago $ 200,000 2002 C

North American Ethnographic and Archaeological Collection, 

Field Museum, Chicago $ 400,000 2002 C

Hegeler-Carus Mansion, LaSalle $ 200,000 2002 E

Ayer American Indian History Collection, Chicago $ 125,000 2000 C

Cahokia Mounds Archaeological Collection, Springfield $ 55,000 2000 C

Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

Glessner House, Chicago $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

Aurora Civil War Memorial, Aurora $ 300,000 2000 E

Jane Addams / Hull-House Photograph Collection, Chicago $ 92,876 1999 C

Poetry Magazine Archives, Chicago $ 125,805 1999 C

Illinois Competitive $ 2,937,681 14

Illinois Earmark $ 1,491,606 7

Illinois Total Funding $ 4,429,287 21

INDIANA 

Vehicle Collection of Studebaker National Museum, South Bend $ 168,900 2005 C

AME Church, Madison $ 99,000 2003 E

Eleutherian College, Lancaster $ 200,000 2002 E, NHL 

Madame Walker Theatre Center, Indianapolis $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL

Indiana Cotton Mill, Cannelton $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

Indiana Competitive $ 668,900 3

Indiana Earmark $ 299,000 2

Indiana Total Funding $ 967,900 5

IOWA 

Hoyt Sherman Place Theater $ 300,000 2005 E

Amana Mill Race, Amana $ 295,000 2004 C, NHL

Dubuque Shot Tower, Dubuque $ 295,000 2004 C

Steamboat William M. Black, Dubuque $ 255,637 2004 C, NHL

Karl L. King Band Shell, Fort Dodge $ 249,882 2004 E

Des Moines Library, Des Moines $ 298,000 2003 E

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Grand Opera House, Dubuque $ 248,000 2003 E

Iowa Battle Flag Collection, Des Moines $ 144,000 2002 C

Englert Theatre, Iowa City $ 365,000 2002 E

Park Inn Hotel, Mason City $ 500,000 2001 C

Van Allen & Son Department Store, Clinton $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL

Woodbury County Courthouse, Sioux City $ 300,000 2000 C, NHL 

Iowa Competitive $ 1,989,637 7

Iowa Earmark $ 1,460,882 5

Iowa Total Funding $ 3,450,519 12

KANSAS 

Murphy-Bromelsick House, Lawrence $ 98,768 2004 E

Augusta Theatre, Augusta $ 148,152 2004 E

Kingman County Courthouse, Kingman $ 199,000 2003 E

Sappa Park House $ 8,000 2003 E

Orpheum Theatre, Wichita $ 200,000 2002 E

Quindaro Archaeological Site, Kansas City $ 200,000 2002 E

Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, Hutchinson $ 77,150 2001 C

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls $ 250,000 2000 C

Haskell Indian Nations Archives Collections, Lawrence $ 50,000 1999 C

Kansas Competitive $ 377,150 3

Kansas Earmark $ 853,920 6

Kansas Total Funding $ 1,231,070 9

KENTUCKY 

Beringer-Crawford Museum collections $ 100,000 2005 E

Jefferson Community College $ 100,000 2005 E

Old Warren County Courthouse $ 250,000 2005 E

Metropolitan Hotel, Paducah $ 246,919 2004 E

Old State Capitol Paintings, Frankfort $ 74,076 2004 E

Sunny Hill Pavilion, Iroquois Park, Louisville $ 197,535 2004 E

United States Marine Hospital, Louisville $ 375,000 2003 C, NHL 

Brinton House, Perryville $ 248,000 2003 E

Farnsley-Kauffman House, Louisville $ 199,000 2003 E

West Main Street, Louisville $ 240,000 2003 E

Appalshop Archive, Whitesburg $ 135,000 2002 C

City Archives, Paducah $ 250,000 2002 E

McDowell House, Danville $ 150,000 2002 E, NHL

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Squire Earick House, Louisville $ 150,000 2002 E

Belle of Louisville, Louisville $ 499,000 2001 E, NHL 

Hopewell Museum, Paris $ 249,000 2001 E

Loudoun House, Lexington $ 748,000 2001 E

African American Heritage Center, Trolley Barn Complex, Louisville $ 1,000,000 2000 E

River Heritage Museum, Paducah $ 300,000 2000 E

Kentucky Competitive $ 510,000 2

Kentucky Earmark $ 5,001,530 17

Kentucky Total Funding $ 5,511,530 19

LOUISIANA 

Bogalusa City Hall, Bogalusa $ 98,768 2004 E

Frank Theater, Abbeville $ 98,768 2004 E

Grand Opera House of the South, Crowley $ 148,152 2004 E

McKinley High School, Baton Rouge $ 98,768 2004 E

Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport $ 98,768 2004 E

Gretna Post Office, Gretna $ 199,000 2003 E

New Orleans Notarial Archives, New Orleans $ 64,000 2002 C

Fort Pike, New Orleans $ 200,000 2002 E

Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport $ 365,000 2002 E

McNeill Street Pumping Station, Shreveport $ 150,000 2001 C, NHL 

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans $ 150,000 2001 C

African, Yucca & Prudhomme-Roquier Houses, Natchitoches $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL 

Louisiana Competitive $ 614,000 4

Louisiana Earmark $ 1,307,224 8

Louisiana Total Funding $ 1,921,224 12

MAINE 

Kennebec Arsenal, Augusta $ 295,000 2004 C, NHL 

Skolfield-Whittier House Collections Environmental 

Stabilization, Brunswick $ 50,000 2003 C

Maine’s Historic Flag Collection, Kennebec $ 200,000 2001 C

Victoria Mansion (Morse-Libby Mansion), Portland $ 400,000 2001 C, NHL 

Maine Competitive $ 945,000 4

Maine Earmark $ 0 0

Maine Total Funding $ 945,000 4

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MARYLAND 

Linden Project $ 250,000 2005 E

MD House at the Baltimore Zoo $ 350,000 2005 E

Mount Royal Station and Train Shed, Baltimore $ 360,000 2005 C, NHL

Davidge Hall, University of Maryland, Baltimore $ 345,687 2004 E

Great Brick Chapel, St. Mary’s City $ 197,535 2004 E

Canal Lockhouses, C&O Canal NHP, Hagerstown $ 150,000 2003 C

Locomotive Collection, B & O Railroad Museum, Baltimore $ 500,000 2003 C

Sound Collection, National Council for the Traditional Arts, Silver Spring $ 150,000 2003 C

Great Brick Chapel, St. Mary’s City $ 298,000 2003 E

Charles Carroll House, Annapolis $ 200,000 2002 C

George Peabody Library, Baltimore $ 325,000 2002 C

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, Baltimore $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL

Outbuildings, Sotterly Plantation, Hollywood $ 220,000 2002 E, NHL 

Cutter Taney, Baltimore Maritime Museum $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL 

Manor House, Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood $ 400,000 2000 C, NHL 

Collections, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore $ 181,082 1999 C

Farm House & Slave Quarters, Hampton NHS, Towson $ 200,000 1999 C

Maryland Competitive $ 2,866,082 11

Maryland Earmark $ 1,661,222 6

Maryland Total Funding $ 4,527,304 17

MASSACHUSETTS 

Captain Forbes House, Milton $ 75,000 2005 C, NHL

Hamilton Manufacturing Co. Courthouse and Storehouse, Lowell $ 250,000 2005 C, NHL

Early American Newspaper Collection, Worcester $ 60,000 2005 C

Acetate Negative Collection, Stockbridge $ 296,500 2005 C

Thomas Sully’s The Passage of the Delaware, Boston $ 144,000 2005 C

New Salem Academy $ 175,000 2005 E

Carey Building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Boston $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL 

Center Tower Interior, Trinity Church, Boston $ 500,000 2004 C, NHL 

Gibson House Museum, Boston $ 250,000 2004 C, NHL 

Gore Place, Waltham $ 250,000 2004 C, NHL

USS Massachusetts, Fall River $ 385,000 2004 C, NHL 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston $ 400,000 2004 C

History of the Book in American Culture Collection, Worcester $ 100,000 2004 C

Schooner Adventure, Gloucester $ 246,919 2004 E, NHL 

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Emily Dickinson Homestead, Amherst $ 197,535 2004 E, NHL 

Gardens and Grounds, Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge $ 200,000 2003 C, NHL

Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston $ 150,000 2003 C

John Quincy Adams Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston $ 100,000 2003 C

Old North Church, Boston $ 317,000 2003 C, NHL

Deerfield Historic Acropolis, Deerfield $ 298,000 2003 E

Fenway Studios, Boston $ 250,000 2002 C, NHL

Jeremiah Lee Mansion Wallpaper Collection, Marblehead $ 70,000 2002 C, NHL

Massachusetts Historical Society Manuscript Collection, Boston $ 169,000 2002 C

McKim Building at Copley Square (Boston Public Library), Boston $ 470,000 2002 C, NHL 

City Hall, Taunton $ 250,000 2002 E

Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington $ 250,000 2002 E

African Meeting House, Boston $ 300,000 2001 C, NHL 

Stonehurst (R.T. Paine Estate), Waltham $ 300,000 2001 C, NHL

Boston Symphony Hall, Boston $ 200,000 2001 E, NHL

Corson Building, New Bedford Whaling NHP $ 150,000 2001 E

Old Danforth Street Bridge, Framingham $ 499,000 2001 E

American Antiquarian Society Library, Worcester $ 400,000 2000 C

Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield $ 400,000 2000 C

Orchard House, Concord $ 400,000 2000 C, NHL

Sewell Building, Dimmock Center, Roxbury $ 300,000 2000 E

Chesterwood, Stockbridge $ 119,849 1999 C, NHL

Collections, Longfellow NHS, Cambridge $ 300,000 1999 C

Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers, Boston $ 55,624 1999 C

Gropius House, Lincoln $ 64,349 1999 C, NHL 

The Mount, Lenox $ 2,865,000 1999 C, NHL

Massachusetts Competitive $ 9,841,322 30

Massachusetts Earmark $ 2,566,454 10

Massachusetts Total Funding $12,407,776 40

MICHIGAN 

Early American Schoolbook Collection, East Lansing $ 127,249 2005 C

Grand Traverse Civil War Monument $ 30,000 2005 E

Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Detroit $ 340,000 2004 C

Goldenrod at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn $ 87,000 2004 C

Artrain USA, Ann Arbor $ 148,152 2004 E

Seaman Mineral Museum, Houghton $ 222,227 2004 E

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American Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint $ 300,000 2002 C

Beaver Head Light Station, Beaver Island $ 150,000 2002 C

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit $ 500,000 2002 C

Rosa Parks Bus, Dearborn $ 205,000 2002 C

Cranbrook House, Bloomfield Hills $ 300,000 2000 C, NHL 

Michigan Competitive $ 2,009,249 8

Michigan Earmark $ 400,379 3

Michigan Total Funding $ 2,409,628 11

MIDWAY ISLANDS 

Pacific Cable Buildings & Former Naval Facilities, Midway NWR $ 308,681 1999 C, NHL 

Midway Islands Competitive $ 308,681 1

Midway Islands Earmark $ 0 0

Midway Islands Total Funding $ 308,681 1

MINNESOTA 

Duluth National Guard Armory $ 250,000 2005 E

James J. Hill House, St. Paul $ 250,000 2005 C, NHL 

Turnblad Mansion $ 200,000 2005 E

H. Alden Smith Mansion, Minneapolis $ 197,535 2004 E

Mills Ruins Park, Minneapolis $ 248,000 2003 E

Mimbres Pottery Collection, Minneapolis $ 116,000 2002 C

Immigrant Images Collection, Minneapolis $ 250,000 2002 E

Walker Art Center Permanent Collection, Minneapolis $ 50,000 1999 C

Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis $ 500,000 1999 C, NHL 

Minnesota Competitive $ 916,000 4

Minnesota Earmark $ 1,145,535 5

Minnesota Total Funding $ 2,061,535 9

MISSISSIPPI 

Clarke County Courthouse $ 200,000 2005 E

WLBT News Film Collection, Jackson $ 227,000 2005 C

Lafayette County Courthouse $ 200,000 2005 E

Beauvoir, Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Biloxi $ 300,000 2004 C, NHL 

Burns Church/Belfry House, Oxford $ 148,152 2004 E

Marks-Rothenberg Building, Meridian $ 197,535 2004 E

Pontotoc Courthouse, Pontotoc $ 296,303 2004 E

Eudora Welty House, Jackson $ 251,000 2003 C, NHL 

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L.Q.C Lamar House, Oxford $ 390,000 2003 C, NHL 

Stone County Courthouse, Wiggins $ 248,000 2003 E

George Ohr Museum and Cultural Center, Biloxi $ 425,000 2002 E

Mary O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs $ 299,000 2001 E

Rowan Oak, Oxford $ 299,000 2001 E, NHL 

Grand Opera House of Mississippi, Meridian $ 400,000 2000 C

Mississippi Competitive $ 1,568,000 5

Mississippi Earmark $ 2,312,990 9

Mississippi Total Funding $ 3,880,990 14

MISSOURI 

Arthur Simmons’ Stables Historic District, Mexico $ 250,000 2005 C

City of Springfield City Hall $ 300,000 2005 E

Landers Theatre, Springfield $ 246,919 2004 E

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Columbia $ 98,768 2004 E

Ste. Genevieve Memorial Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve $ 148,152 2004 E, NHL

Daniel Boone Home, Defiance $ 200,000 2003 C

Gillioz Theater, Springfield $ 248,000 2003 E

Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis $ 199,000 2003 E

John Baker Film Collection, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City $ 96,000 2002 C

Louisiana Purchase Transfer , W.Clark Family, M.Lewis & 

T.Jefferson Collections, St. Louis $ 140,000 2002 C

Audubon’s “Birds of America”, St. Louis $ 155,000 2002 E

Truman Memorial Building, Independence $ 249,000 2001 E, NHL 

St. Louis Civil Court Records, St. Louis $ 175,000 2000 C

Missouri Competitive $ 861,000 5

Missouri Earmark $ 1,644,839 8

Missouri Total Funding $ 2,505,839 13

MONTANA 

Historic Rock Carvings, Billings $ 65,400 2005 C

Union Pacific Dining Lodge $ 400,000 2005 E

Madison County Courthouse, Virginia City $ 246,919 2004 E

Story Mansion, Bozeman $ 493,839 2004 E

Daly Mansion, Hamilton $ 298,000 2003 E

Livingston Depot, Livingston $ 298,000 2003 E

World War II Seventh Ferrying Group Collection, Great Falls $ 125,000 2002 C

Moss Mansion, Billings $ 70,000 2002 E

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Tenth Street Bridge, Great Falls $ 250,000 2001 C

Virginia City Historic District $ 300,000 2001 C, NHL 

Butte - Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte $ 50,000 2000 C

Montana Competitive $ 790,400 5

Montana Earmark $ 1,806,758 6

Montana Total Funding $ 2,597,158 11

NEBRASKA 

Arbor Lodge, Nebraska City $ 254,000 2003 C, NHL

Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln $ 500,000 2002 C, NHL 

Mari Sandoz High Plains Cultural Center, Chadron $ 450,000 2000 E

Nebraska Competitive $ 754,000 2

Nebraska Earmark $ 450,000 1

Nebraska Total Funding $ 1,204,000 3

NEVADA 

Lear Theater, Reno $ 400,000 2005 E

Oats Park School/Arts Center $ 200,000 2005 E

Walking Box Ranch, Clark County $ 271,611 2004 E

Comstock Cemeteries, Virginia City $ 350,000 2001 C, NHL 

Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City $ 400,000 2001 C, NHL 

Stewart Indian Boarding School Historic District, Carson City $ 250,000 2000 C

Fourth Ward School, Virginia City $ 639,271 1999 C, NHL

Nevada Competitive $ 1,639,271 4

Nevada Earmark $ 871,611 3

Nevada Total Funding $ 2,510,882 7

NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Old Meadow Bridge, Shelburne $ 220,000 2005 C

Currier Museum $ 108,472 2005 E

The Music Hall, Portsmouth $ 395,071 2004 E

White Island Lighthouse, Portsmouth $ 248,000 2003 E

Belknap Mill, Laconia $ 250,000 2002 E

Eagle Block, Guild $ 250,000 2002 E

Cheshire Mills Complex - Building 1, Harrisville $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL 

Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL 

New Hampshire Competitive $ 720,000 3

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New Hampshire Earmark $ 1,251,243 5

New Hampshire Total Funding $ 1,971,543 8

NEW JERSEY 

Church of the Presidents $ 100,000 2005 E

Henry Phillips Farmhouse $ 150,000 2005 E

Nicholson House $ 150,000 2005 E, NHL 

Revolutionary War Documents, Trenton $ 347,000 2004 C

Collections, Edison NHS, West Orange $ 250,000 2001 C

Roebling Family Collection, New Brunswick $ 73,126 2001 C

Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farm, Parsippany $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL

Laundry & Hospital Outbuilding, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty NM $ 500,000 2000 C

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Princeton $ 50,000 1999 C

Ferry Building, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty NM $ 1,145,975 1999 C

New Jersey Competitive $ 2,616,101 7

New Jersey Earmark $ 400,000 3

New Jersey Total Funding $ 3,016,101 10

NEW MEXICO 

Fort Stanton Administration Building, Fort Stanton $ 210,000 2005 C

Palace of the Governors Collections, Santa Fe $ 383,000 2004 C

Picuris Old Village, Picuris Pueblo, Penasco $ 295,000 2004 C

Luna County Courthouse, Deming $ 340,000 2003 C

Seton Castle, Seton Village $ 330,000 2003 C, NHL 

Roswell Museum, Roswell $ 338,000 2003 E

Daisy Decelerator, Alamogordo $ 54,000 2002 C

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe $ 250,000 2002 C

Salmon Ruins Collections, Bloomfield $ 175,000 2002 C

Lincoln Historic District, Lincoln $ 1,000,000 2002 E, NHL 

San Esteban del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo $ 400,000 2001 C, NHL

Feather Cave Complex Collections, Albuquerque $ 75,000 2000 C

Manhattan Project Buildings, Los Alamos $ 700,000 1999 C, NHL

CCC/WPA Collection at 11 Southwestern National Park Units, 

New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona $ 125,000 2002 C

New Mexico Competitive $ 3,337,000 12

New Mexico Earmark $ 1,338,000 2

New Mexico Total Funding $4,675,000 14

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NEW YORK 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Archives, New York $ 132,000 2005 C

Bronx Community College Stanford White Complex $ 200,000 2005 E

Broome County YWCA, Binghamton $ 100,000 2005 E

Clinton House, Ithaca $ 100,000 2005 E

Dragon Rock, Manitoga, Garrison $ 250,000 2005 C, NHL 

Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematorium, Troy $ 250,000 2005 C

Goodwill Theater, Johnson City $ 50,000 2005 E

Hotchkiss Building, Lyons $ 200,000 2005 E

Huntington Free Library Native American Collection, Ithaca $ 250,000 2005 C

Merce Cunningham Dance Archives, New York $ 225,000 2005 C

Ossining Historic Architecture Protection $ 150,000 2005 E

Paul Taylor Dance Archives, New York $ 80,475 2005 C

Rye Meeting House, Rye $ 50,000 2005 E

Playland Amusement Park, Rye $ 500,000 2005 C, NHL

Sonnenberg Mansion, Canadaigua $ 370,000 2005 E

Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs $ 200,000 2005 E

Camp Santanoni, Adirondack Architectural Heritage, Newcomb $ 365,000 2004 C, NHL 

Erie Canal Aqueduct at Schoharie Creek, Fort Hunter $ 365,000 2004 C, NHL 

The 9/11 Collection at the New York City Police Museum, New York $ 100,000 2004 C

Bellevue Wall of Prayer, Museum of the City of New York, New York $ 135,000 2004 C

Archives of the Martha Graham Dance Company, New York and Brooklyn $ 53,000 2004 C

Records of America’s Dance Boom and the New York 

Public Library, New York $ 300,000 2004 C

Television Collection at the Museum of Television & Radio, New York $ 300,000 2004 C

92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center Audio Archive, New York $ 200,000 2004 C

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, Chappaqua $ 325,000 2004 C

Revolutionary War Collection at the NY State Archives 

& State Library, Albany $ 82,000 2004 C

“Buffalo Bill” Billboard, Reg Lenna Civic Center, Jamestown $ 52,000 2004 C

Council House Grounds, Letchworth State Park, Castile $ 98,768 2004 E

Crotona Park Bath House, The Bronx, New York $ 98,768 2004 E

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, The Bronx, New York $ 98,768 2004 E

Fitz-Greene Hallock House, Lake Ronkokoma $ 39,510 2004 E

Graycliff, Derby $ 271,611 2004 E

McVicker House, Irvington $ 197,535 2004 E

Old Dutch Church, Kingston $ 98,768 2004 E

Paramount Theater, Middletown $ 98,768 2004 E

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Rye Town Park Bath House, Rye $ 197,535 2004 E

Wilderstein, Rhinebeck $ 148,152 2004 E

28mm Motion Picture Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester $ 380,000 2003 C

Diorama Hall, Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport $ 135,000 2003 C

Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York $ 300,000 2003 C, NHL 

Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion, New York $ 270,000 2003 C, NHL

Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga $ 275,000 2003 C, NHL 

General Electric Photograph Collection, Schenectady 

Museum, Schenectady $ 100,000 2003 C

George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives, New York $ 50,000 2003 C

Jean Hasbrouck House, New Paltz $ 250,000 2003 C, NHL 

Olana, Hudson $ 250,000 2003 C, NHL

Perimeter Fence, New York Botanical Garden, New York $ 200,000 2003 C, NHL 

Round Lake Auditorium, Round Lake $ 225,000 2003 C

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City $ 646,000 2003 E, NHL 

Rockefeller Fountain, Bronx Zoo, The Bronx $ 298,000 2003 E

Strong Museum, Rochester $ 224,000 2003 E

Thomas Cole House, Catskill $ 199,000 2003 E, NHL 

Industrial Removal Office Collection, New York $ 78,000 2002 C

Look Magazine Photographic Collection, New York $ 64,000 2002 C

Luykas Van Alen House, Kinderhook $ 175,000 2002 C, NHL 

New York City Ballet Archives, New York $ 300,000 2002 C

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton $ 107,000 2002 C, NHL

Utica State Hospital, Utica $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL

1901 Pan Am Expo. Building, Buffalo $ 100,000 2002 E

Amer. Air Power Museum, Farmingdale $ 200,000 2002 E

Franklin - Hinchey House, Gates $ 100,000 2002 E

Lion House, Bronx Zoo, Bronx $ 200,000 2002 E

Peter Augustus Jay House, Rye $ 100,000 2002 E

Railroad Station, Scarsdale $ 100,000 2002 E

State Theatre, Ithaca $ 150,000 2002 E

Alan Lomax Archives, New York City $ 250,000 2001 C

Great Camp Sagamore, Long Lake $ 350,000 2001 C, NHL

Lyndhurst, Tarrytown $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL 

Native American Treaties & Land Papers, Albany $ 50,738 2001 C

Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester $ 300,000 2001 C, NHL 

Weeksville Houses, Brooklyn $ 400,000 2001 C

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Community Theatre/Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston $ 250,000 2001 E

Darwin Martin House, Buffalo $ 998,000 2001 E, NHL 

Kingston City Hall, Kingston $ 49,000 2001 E

Shaker Museum & Library, Old Chatham $ 748,000 2001 E

Southside Sportsmen’s Club, Connetquot State Park, Oakdale $ 399,000 2001 E

Babe Ruth Scrapbooks, Cooperstown $ 50,000 2000 C

Harriet Tubman Historic Sites, Auburn $ 450,000 2000 C, NHL

Metropolitan Opera Radio & Television Archives, New York $ 200,000 2000 C

Tenement at 97 Orchard Street, New York $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

United States Sanitary Commission Record, New York $ 250,000 2000 C

Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York City $2,500,000 2000 E, NHL 

20th-C. American Dances, Dance Notation Bureau, New York $ 250,000 1999 C

Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Collection, Ithaca $ 331,000 1999 C

Dutch Colonial Manuscripts, Albany $ 79,025 1999 C

Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh $ 125,802 1999 C, NHL 

Louis Armstrong House & Archives, New York $ 300,000 1999 C, NHL 

M’Clintock House, Women’s Rights NHP, Seneca Falls $ 185,000 1999 C

New York Competitive $ 11,345,040 52

New York Earmark $ 10,029,183 37

New York Total Funding $21,374,223 89

NORTH CAROLINA 

Grove Arcade, Asheville $ 500,000 2005 E

Harper House, Bentonsville $ 100,000 2005 E

Penland School, Penland $ 100,000 2005 E

Tryon Palace $ 150,000 2005 E

Wilkes Courthouse, Wilkesboro $ 200,000 2005 E

Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum Collection, Hatteras $ 275,000 2004 C

Hendersonville City Hall, Hendersonville $ 199,000 2004 E

F.W. Woolworth Building, Greensboro $ 148,152 2004 E

Single Sisters House, Salem College, Winston-Salem $ 197,535 2004 E

North Carolina Archeological Collection, University of 

North Carolina, Chapel Hill $ 450,000 2003 C

Chowan County Courthouse, Edenton $ 208,000 2002 C, NHL 

Smith - McDowell House, Asheville $ 100,000 2002 E

Yancey County Public Library, Burnsville $ 200,000 2002 E

Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Artifacts, Morehead City $ 350,000 2001 C

Bodie Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras NS $ 200,000 2001 E

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Union Tavern (Thomas Day House), Milton $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

North Carolina Competitive $ 1,533,000 5

North Carolina Earmark $ 2,091,908 11

North Carolina Total Funding $ 3,624,908 16

NORTH DAKOTA 

Cold War sites $ 250,000 2005 E

Ft. Seward Military Post $ 100,000 2005 E

Hutmacher Complex $ 100,000 2005 E

French Gratitude Boxcar, Bismarck $ 79,016 2004 E

Fort Abercrombie Historic Site, Fort Abercrombie $ 197,535 2004 E

Prairie Churches $ 100,000 2002 E

North Dakota Competitive $ 0 0

North Dakota Earmark $ 826,551 6

North Dakota Total Funding $ 826,551 6

OHIO 

Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, Dennison $ 200,000 2005 E

Holland Theatre, Bellefontaine $ 200,000 2005 E

Smith-Orr House $ 98,611 2005 E

Howe House $ 100,000 2005 C

Joan Miro and Saul Steinberg Murals, Cincinnati $ 135,250 2005 E

University Hall, Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware $ 50,000 2005 E

Old Post Office, Sandusky $ 200,000 2005 E

Stan Hywet Hall, Akron $ 250,000 2005 C, NHL 

Westcott House, Springfield $ 200,000 2005 E

W.P. Snyder, Jr. Steam Towboat, Marietta $ 350,000 2005 C, NHL 

Fort Ancient Earthworks, Ohio Historical Society, Oregonia $ 255,000 2004 C, NHL 

Chester Academy, Chester $ 234,080 2004 E

Haines House, Alliance $ 55,311 2004 E

Hayesville Opera House, Hayesville $ 90,868 2004 E

McKinley Museum, Canton $ 49,385 2004 E

Ohio Theatre, Loudonville $ 24,694 2004 E

Perry County Courthouse, Somerset $ 177,783 2004 E 

Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati $ 250,000 2003 C, NHL

The Showboat Majestic, Cincinnati $ 150,000 2003 C, NHL

Bealle Home, Wooster $ 199,000 2003 E

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Colony Theater, Marietta $ 298,000 2003 E

Majestic Theater, Cincinnati $ 199,000 2003 E

MLK Jr. Central Union Terminal, Toledo $ 248,000 2003 E

James Thurber Collection, Columbus $ 58,000 2002 C

Akron Civic Theatre, Akron $ 500,000 2002 E

City Schools Administration Building, Wooster $ 500,000 2002 E

Harborview, Vermillion $ 100,000 2002 E

Quarry Pond Farm Barn, Whitehouse $ 200,000 2002 E

XC-99 Aircraft, U.S. Air Force Museum, Dayton $ 200,000 2002 E

Alwin Nikolais & Murray Louis Dance Video Collection, Athens $ 51,000 2001 C

Four Continents Murals, Cleveland $ 100,000 2001 C

Ohio Company of Associates Papers, Marietta $ 200,000 2001 E

Woodward Opera House, Mount Vernon $ 898,000 2001 E

McKinley Monument, Canton $ 100,000 2000 E

National First Ladies Library (City National Bank), Canton $2,500,000 2000 E

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton $ 130,000 2000 E

P.L. Dunbar House & Barn, Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP $ 117,030 1999 C, NHL

The 1905 Wright Flyer III, Dayton $ 328,500 1999 C, NHL

Ohio Competitive $ 2,044,780 11

Ohio Earmark $ 7,952,732 27

Ohio Total Funding $ 9,997,512 38

OKLAHOMA 

Native American Ledger Art, Norman $ 100,000 2005 C

Vincent Maragliotti Ceilings in the Marland Mansion, Ponca City $ 180,000 2005 C, NHL

Fort Reno, El Reno $ 296,303 2004 E

Televised Political Commercial Archive, University of Oklahoma, Norman $ 135,000 2003 C

National Army Museum of the Southwest, Fort Sill $ 497,000 2003 E

Western Fine Arts Collection, Oklahoma City $ 140,000 2000 C

Oklahoma Competitive $ 555,000 4

Oklahoma Earmark $ 793,303 2

Oklahoma Total Funding $ 1,348,303 6

OREGON 

Eric Ladd Cast Iron Collection, Portland $ 295,832 2005 E

Lake Oswego Historic Iron Smelter $ 100,000 2005 E

Astoria Column, Astoria $ 340,749 2004 E

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Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, Salem $ 250,000 2003 C

Dirigible Hanger B, Tillamook $ 248,000 2003 E

Vista House, Crown Point State Park, Corbett $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL

Artifacts collection, Lewis and Clark College, Portland $ 400,000 2002 E

Liberty Theater, Astoria $ 399,00 2001 E

Oregon Competitive $ 450,000 2

Oregon Earmark $ 1,783,581 6

Oregon Total Funding $ 2,233,581 8

PENNSYLVANIA 

Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia $ 500,000 2005 E, NHL

Drake Oil Well, Titusville $ 150,000 2005 C, NHL

Founder’s Hall at Girard College, Philadelphia $ 544,554 2005 E, NHL

Harmony Engine Company Firehouse $ 200,000 2005 C

Johnson House. Philadelphia $ 275,000 2005 E, NHL

Moravian College Brethren House $ 150,000 2005 C

Pearl S. Buck House, Perkasie $ 450,000 2005 C, NHL

Pennsylvania Civil War Muster Rolls, Harrisburg $ 375,000 2005 C

Pennsylvania General Assembly Collection, Harrisburg $ 250,000 2005 E

Rowland Theatre, Phillipsburg $ 98,611 2005 C

Troy High School $ 250,000 2005 E

Vertebrate Paleontology Collection, Pittsburgh $ 450,000 2005 C

Washington and Jefferson College Historic Buildings $ 300,000 2005 E

Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia $ 500,000 2004 C, NHL

The Woodlands, Philadelphia $ 200,000 2004 C

Louis I. Kahn Collection at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia $ 70,000 2004 C

Louise Nevelson’s Atmosphere and Environment XII, Philadelphia $ 100,000 2004 C

Early 20th-Century Manuscripts, American 

Philosophical Society, Philadelphia $ 164,000 2004 C

Microfilmed Land Records, City of Philadelphia 

Department of Records, Philadelphia $ 51,000 2004 C

Belmont Mansion, Philadelphia $ 197,535 2004 E

Fallingwater, Bear Run $ 98,768 2004 E, NHL

South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club, St. Michael $ 320,995 2004 E

Old Main, Widener University, Chester $ 197,535 2004 E

Hamilton Building, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia $ 197,535 2004 E, NHL

Ramirez Solar House, Milford $ 246,919 2004 C

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Collections, The Library Company 

of Philadelphia, Philadelphia $ 300,000 2003 C

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Blacksmith Shop, Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown $ 261,925 2003 C, NHL

City Hall Tower Sculptures, Philadelphia $ 300,000 2003 C, NHL

Cliveden, Philadelphia $ 300,000 2003 C, NHL

Early American Sheet Music Collection, Free Library of 

Philadelphia, Philadelphia $ 135,000 2003 C

Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, Doylestown $ 240,000 2003 C, NHL

Wright Brothers Aeronautical Engineering Collection, 

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia $ 60,000 2003 C

Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh $ 199,000 2003 E

Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia $ 248,000 2003 E, NHL

Silver Lake Bank Building, Montrose $ 50,000 2003 E

George Washington Sleeping Tent Exterior, Valley Forge National 

Historical Park, Valley Forge $ 286,000 2002 C

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections, Philadelphia $ 54,000 2002 C

Lincoln Railroad Station, Gettysburg $ 125,000 2002 C

Moland House, Hartsville $ 175,000 2002 C

Pennsylvania Basic Documents, Native American Deeds & Surveys of 

Proprietary Manors, Harrisburg $ 52,000 2002 C

Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection, Academy of Natural 

Sciences, Philadelphia $ 63,000 2002 C

Academy of Music, Philadelphia $ 200,000 2002 E, NHL

Masonic Temple/Scranton Cultural Center, Scranton $ 450,000 2002 E

Paul Robeson House, Philadelphia $ 200,000 2002 E

Cruiser Olympia, Philadelphia $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL

Lightfoot Mill, Chester Springs $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL

Meadowcroft Rock Shelter, Avella $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL

Memorial Hall, Philadelphia $ 350,000 2001 C, NHL

PA Railroad Rolling Stock, Strasburg $ 200,000 2001 C

Peale Moth & Butterfly Collection, Philadelphia $ 96,700 2001 C

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia $ 350,000 2001 C, NHL

Farmers’ Market, York $ 259,000 2001 E

Continental Army Winter Encampment Structures, Valley Forge NHP $ 450,000 2000 C, NHL

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia $ 500,000 2000 C, NHL

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Philadelphia $ 300,000 2000 E

Thaddeus Stevens Hall, Gettysburg College $ 300,000 2000 E

Collections, Gettysburg NMP $ 514,600 1999 C

Fallingwater, Bear Run $ 901,000 1999 C, NHL

Lewis & Clark Herbarium, Philadelphia $ 148,779 1999 C

The Letter Box, Grey Towers, Milford $ 116,000 1999 C, NHL

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Pennsylvania Competitive $ 10,558,558 39

Pennsylvania Earmark $ 4,268,368 20

Pennsylvania Total Funding $14,826,926 59

PUERTO RICO 

Hacienda La Esperanza, Manati $ 200,000 2002 C

La Fortaleza, San Juan $ 300,456 2001 C

Fort San Felipe del Morro, San Juan NHS $ 750,000 2000 C

Puerto Rico Competitive $ 1,250,456 3

Puerto Rico Earmark $ 0 0

Puerto Rico Total Funding $ 1,250,456 3

RHODE ISLAND 

Pawtucket Public Library, Pawtucket $ 300,000 2005 E

Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport $ 250,000 2004 C, NHL

The Providence Anthenaeum, Providence $ 260,000 2004 C, NHL

Providence Performing Arts Center, Providence $ 271,611 2004 E

John N. A. Griswold House, Newport $ 250,000 2003 C, NHL

Touro Synagogue, Newport $ 375,000 2003 C, NHL

Charles I. D. Looff Carousel, East Providence $ 248,000 2003 E, NHL

Westerly Armory, Westerly $ 298,000 2003 E

Charles I. D. Looff Carousel, East Providence $ 150,000 2002 C, NHL

The Breakers, Newport $ 250,000 2002 C, NHL

Pawtucket Armory, Pawtucket $ 250,000 2002 E

Fort Adams, Newport $ 500,000 2001 C, NHL

Redwood Library & Athenaeum, Newport $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL

Ochre Court, Newport $ 299,000 2001 E

Southeast Lighthouse, Block Island $ 300,000 2000 E, NHL

Rhode Island Competitive $ 2,585,000 9

Rhode Island Earmark $ 1,666,611 6

Rhode Island Total Funding $ 4,251,611 15

SOUTH CAROLINA 

Beaufort Arsenal, Beaufort $ 230,000 2005 C, NHL 

Hunley Submarine, Charleston $ 100,000 2005 E 

Old Exchange and Provost, Charleston $ 250,000 2005 C, NHL 

Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston $ 225,000 2004 C, NHL 

Dock Street Theatre, Charleston $ 295,000 2004 C 

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Benjamin Mays Birthplace, Greenwood $ 296,303 2004 E 

Camden Battlefield $ 296,303 2004 E, NHL 

Cheraw & Darlington Railroad Depot, Society Hill $ 74,076 2004 E

Flipper Library, Columbia $ 197,535 2004 E

Morris Island Lighthouse, Folly Beach $ 98,768 2004 E

Old Marion High School, Marion $ 197,535 2004 E

Old City Jail, Charleston $ 500,000 2003 C

Fort Hill, Calhoun & Clemson Collections, Clemson $ 73,000 2002 C

Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz Collection, Columbia $ 81,000 2002 C

Robert Mills Courthouse, Camden $ 330,000 2002 E

Brown’s Ferry, The Rice Museum, Georgetown $ 249,000 2001 E

Drayton Hall, Charleston $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL

South Carolina Competitive $ 1,904,000 8

South Carolina Earmark $ 1,839,520 9

South Carolina Total Funding $ 3,743,520 17

SOUTH DAKOTA 

Oscar Howe Murals (Mobridge School District) $ 150,000 2005 E

Homestake Opera House, Lead $ 370,379 2004 E

Old Women’s Gym/Old Armory, U. of SD, Vermillion $ 365,000 2002 E

Corn Palace, Mitchell $ 400,000 2000 C

D.C. Booth National Fish Hatchery, Spearfish $ 300,000 1999 C

South Dakota Competitive $ 700,000 2

South Dakota Earmark $ 885,379 3

South Dakota Total Funding $ 1,585,379 5

TENNESSEE 

Moore County Courthouse $ 50,000 2005 E

Rosenwald Negro Rural Schools Photograph Collection, Nashville $ 65,000 2004 C

Bemis Auditorium, Bemis $ 197,535 2004 E

Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville $ 46,423 2004 E

Acetate and Vinyl Recording Transcriptions , Country Music 

Foundation, Nashville $ 214,000 2003 C

The Hermitage, near Nashville $ 340,000 2000 C, NHL 

Tennessee Competitive $ 619,000 3

Tennessee Earmark $ 293,958 3

Tennessee Total Funding $ 912,958 6

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TEXAS 

Carlo Ciampaglia Murals at Fair Park, Dallas $ 300,000 2005 C, NHL 

Rayburn Library, Austin $ 200,000 2005 E

Socorro Mission, El Paso $ 200,000 2005 E

Hogg Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston $ 200,000 2004 C

Plaza Theater, El Paso $ 197,535 2004 E

Post Hospital, Fort Davis $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL 

Elisabet Ney Studio Formosa, Austin $ 250,000 2003 C 

Mission Concepcion, San Antonio Missions NHP, San Antonio $ 215,000 2003 C, NHL

LaSalle’s La Belle Shipwreck & Artifacts, Austin $ 300,000 2002 C

Sculptures, Fountain Pylons and Bas-Reliefs, Fair Park, Dallas $ 200,000 2002 C, NHL 

Spanish Colonial Heritage Material, San Antonio $ 56,000 2002 C

Fort Concho Officers’ Quarters 7, San Angelo $ 250,000 2001 C, NHL 

Laguna Gloria, Art Museum of Austin $ 320,000 2001 C

Durst-Taylor House, Nacogdoches $ 274,000 2001 E

Hispanic Literacy Heritage Project, Houston $ 500,000 1999 C

Peter Wolf Administration Building, Fair Park, Dallas $3,000,000 1999 C, NHL

Texas Competitive $ 5,791,000 12

Texas Earmark $ 871,535 4

Texas Total Funding $ 6,662,535 16

UTAH 

Ancestral Puebloan Sites, Monticello $ 2,225,000 2005 C, NHL 

Spring City Historic Old School, Spring City $ 100,000 2002 C

Promontory Cave Collection, Salt Lake City $ 50,000 2000 C

Ogden Union Station, Ogden $ 199,000 2003 E

Utah Competitive $ 2,375,000 3

Utah Earmark $ 199,000 1

Utah Total Funding $ 2,574,000 4

VERMONT 

Town Hall Theater $ 150,000 2005 E

Gray Building, Northfield $ 246,919 2004 E

Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Plymouth $ 200,000 2003 C, NHL 

Robbins & Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop 

(Amer. Precision Museum), Windsor $ 200,000 2003 C, NHL

Ethan Allen Firehouse, Burlington $ 497,000 2003 E

Painted Theater Curtains of Vermont, statewide $ 150,000 2002 C

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Shelburne Farms, Shelburne $ 215,000 2002 C, NHL 

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury $ 399,000 2002 C, NHL

Morgan Horse Farm, U. of Vermont, Burlington $ 365,000 2002 E

Spaulding Grade School, Vermont Historical Society, Barre $ 365,000 2002 E

Monitor Barns Project, Richmond $ 200,000 2001 E

Vermont Granite Museum, Barre $ 948,000 2001 E

Wheeler Block Building, Richford $ 175,000 2001 E

Vermont Competitive $ 1,164,000 5

Vermont Earmark $ 2,946,919 8

Vermont Total Funding $ 4,110,919 13

VIRGINIA 

Buckland Preservation $ 50,000 2005 E

George Washington - Robert Dinwiddie Papers, Richmond $ 78,289 2005 C

Pope-Leighey, Alexandria $ 49,305 2005 E

Lee-Fendall House $ 75,000 2005 E

Northern VA Freedom House $ 75,000 2005 E

Phoenix Bank $ 100,000 2005 E

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum $ 50,000 2005 E

Adam Thoroughgood House, Virginia Beach $ 150,000 2004 C, NHL

Woodrow Wilson Birthplace, Staunton $ 200,000 2004 C, NHL

Buckland Historic District, Buckland $ 49,385 2004 E

Lloyd House, Alexandria $ 98,768 2004 E

Mansion House, McDowell $ 197,535 2004 E

Stratford Hall, Stratford $ 300,000 2003 C, NHL

John Jackson Center for Piedmont Blues, Falls Church $ 65,000 2003 E

Woodlawn Estate, Mt. Vernon $ 233,000 2003 E, NHL

Menokin, Warsaw $ 366,000 2002 C, NHL

Monumental Church, Richmond $ 319,000 2002 C, NHL

USS Monitor Collection, Newport News $ 100,000 2002 C

Washington Monument Sculpture Group, Richmond $ 50,000 2002 C

Women’s Memorial Collection, Arlington $ 237,000 2002 C

Lloyd House, Alexandria $ 125,000 2002 E

Rose Hill Farm, Winchester $ 100,000 2002 E

Tinner Hill Monument, Falls Church $ 125,000 2002 E

Dodona Manor, Leesburg $ 400,000 2001 C, NHL

Robert Russa Moton Museum, Farmville $ 200,000 2001 C, NHL

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Alexandria Academy, Alexandria $ 200,000 2001 E

Arlington House, George Washington Memorial Parkway $ 150,000 2001 E

Montpelier, Orange County $ 1,000,000 2000 E, NHL

Custis Family Papers, Richmond $ 63,586 1999 C

George Washington’s Tent, Colonial NHP, Yorktown $ 162,500 1999 C

Jackson Ward Historic District, Richmond $ 650,000 1999 C, NHL

Virginia Competitive $ 3,276,375 14

Virginia Earmark $ 2,742,993 17

Virginia Total Funding $ 6,019,368 31

WASHINGTON 

Bremerton Building 50 Naval Museum $ 300,000 2005 E

Jefferson County Courthouse, Port Townsend $ 385,000 2004 C, NHL

Admiral Theater, Bremerton $ 197,535 2004 E

Fox Theatre, Spokane $ 246,919 2004 E

Carnegie Library, Port Angeles $ 298,000 2003 E

Spokane Masonic Temple, Spokane $ 298,000 2003 E

Tugboat Arthur Foss, Seattle $ 150,000 2002 C, NHL 

Fort Nisqually, Tacoma $ 250,000 2002 E, NHL

Grays Harbor County Courthouse, Montesano $ 499,000 2001 E

Marine Science Center, Port Townsend $ 150,000 2001 E

Admiral Theatre, Bremerton $ 400,000 2000 E

Mukai Farm & Garden, Vachon Island $ 150,000 2000 E

Nathaniel Orr Pioneer Home Site, Steilacoom $ 250,000 2000 E

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma $ 600,000 2000 E

Green Mountain Lookout, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie NF $ 50,000 1999 C

Ozette Artifact Collection, Makah Cultural and Research Center, 

Neah Bay $ 152,000 2003 C

Port Townsend City Hall, Port Townsend $ 280,000 2003 C, NHL

Washington Competitive $ 1,017,000 5

Washington Earmark $ 3,639,454 12

Washington Total Funding $4,656,454 17

WEST VIRGINIA 

Hazlett-Fields House $ 250,000 2005 E

Bethany College, Bethany $ 217,289 2004 E

Old Post Office Arts Center, Martinsburg $ 98,768 2004 E

Camp Washington-Carver, Cliff Top $ 148,152 2004 E

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Pendleton County Courthouse, Franklin $ 98,768 2004 E

Cass Historic District, Cass $ 348,000 2003 E

Grafton Railroad Station, Grafton $ 298,000 2003 E

Harden Gilmore House, Charleston $ 99,000 2003 E

Arthurdale Historic Community, Arthurdale $ 300,000 2002 E

B&O Railroad Corridor $ 200,000 2002 E

Charles Washington Hall, Charles Town $ 200,000 2002 E

Civil War Regimental Flag Collection, WV State Museum, Charleston $ 95,000 2002 E

Frederick Douglass Junior & Senior High School, Huntington $ 270,000 2002 E

Delf Norona Museum, Moundsville $ 499,000 2001 E

B & O Railroad Roundhouse Complex, Martinsburg $ 500,000 2000 C, NHL

Weston State Hospital, Weston $ 750,000 2000 E, NHL

West Virginia Competitive $ 500,000 1

West Virginia Earmark $ 3,871,977 15

West Virginia Total Funding $ 4,371,977 16

WISCONSIN 

Boys’ Dormitory, Government Boarding School, Lac du Flambeau $ 275,000 2005 C

Yawkey House $ 250,000 2005 E

Milwaukee Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee $ 385,000 2004 C, NHL

Oneida County Courthouse, Rhinelander $ 237,043 2004 E 

Milton House, Milton $ 275,000 2003 C, NHL

Antigo Courthouse, Antigo $ 174,000 2003 E

USS Cobia Archival Collection, Manitowoc $ 100,000 2002 C

Lincoln County Courthouse, Merrill $ 280,000 2002 E

H.H. Bennett Glass Plate Negative Collection, Madison $ 115,290 2001 C

Ashland Depot, Ashland $ 499,000 2001 E

Grand Theater, Wausau $ 399,000 2001 E

Ten Chimneys, Genesee Depot $ 250,000 2000 C, NHL 

Taliesin, Spring Green $ 1,146,700 1999 C, NHL

Wisconsin Competitive $ 2,546,990 7

Wisconsin Earmark $ 1,839,043 6

Wisconsin Total Funding $ 4,386,033 13

WYOMING 

David T. Vernon Collection, Moose $ 100,000 2005 C

Historic Drawings and Documents Collection, Yellowstone 

National Park, Yellowstone $ 60,000 2002 C
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Murie Ranch Historic District, Grant Teton NP $ 225,000 2001 C

Wyoming Competitive $ 385,000 3

Wyoming Earmark $ 0 0

Wyoming Total Funding $ 385,000 3

TOTALS

Total Competitive $116,029,329 431 awards

Total Earmark $101,721,407 371 awards

Save America’s Treasures Total Funding $217,750,736 802 awards
For More Information

The National Park Service in partnership with the President’s Committee on the

Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National

Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library

Services coordinates the Save America’s Treasures competitive federal grants

process. Each year applications are solicited for preservation and/or conservation

work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally

significant historic structures and sites. Grant amounts range from $25,000 to

$700,000 to conserve collections, and from $125,000 to $700,000 for historic

property and sites projects. All the awards must be matched 1:1. Complete

guidelines, applications and contact information, as well as a database of previous

Save America’s Treasures awardees, can be found on the National Park Service

Web site www2.cr.nps.gov/treasures/index.

For Additional Information

Save America’s Treasures at the National Trust for Historic Preservation 

provides advice and assistance for projects and raises funds toward helping 

meet the program’s private matching fund requirements.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

1785 Massachusetts Ave NW

Washington,DC, 20036

Telephone: 202.588.6202

E-mail: savemerciastreasures@nthp.org 

Acknowledgements

This report on Save America’s Treasures like the program itself is the result of

collaboration. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities thanks

the preservation staff of the National Park Service, Institute of Museum and

Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for

the Humanities and the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their

contributions to the program and for their assistance with this publication. For

financial support of this report, the President’s Committee acknowledges the J.

Paul Getty Foundation and the Center for Arts and Culture. Finally, special

thanks to Ellen McCullough Lovell for help in documenting the early history of

the program and Don Ball for editorial assistance.

Credits

Editor/writer: Kimber Craine 

Contributing Writer: Carol Dana,EnVision Communications, LLC

Design: Richard Fletcher, Fletcher Design
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“Want of care does us more damage 

than want of knowledge”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN