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For Immediate Release

Contact: Priscilla Brendler

914-592-6726

GHHN Awards $63,300 Statewide for the 2023 NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Grant Program:

Preservation Supplies and Site Assessments



The NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Grant Program now offers three opportunities for collecting institutions in New York State: Conservation Treatment Grants, Preservation Supplies Grants, and Site Assessment Grants.


The 2023 NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Grant Program: Preservation Supplies and 

Site Assessment Grants are administered by Greater Hudson Heritage Network, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation supports projects from Long Island and New York City.



For the 2023 grant year, 102 grant applications were received from institutions from 35 counties in New York State, requesting an aggregate of $69,464.47 in grant support. In all, 94 organizational awards totaling $63,300 for Preservation Supplies and Site Assessments were recommended for funding. The Conservation Grant Program: Preservation Supplies and Site Assessment Grant awards range from $349 to $1,000. 


Of the 102 applicant institutions, sixty-three had a general operating budget under $300,000; sixteen had budgets over $501,000 but below $1 million; twenty organizations had budgets between $1 million and $6 million; and three had budgets above $6 million. Organizational operating budgets of the Conservation Grant Program: Preservation Supplies and Site Assessment Grant applicants span a stunning range from $1,025 to $15 million.


Preservation Supplies Awardees

Allegany County Historical Society (Allegany)

Bedford Historical Society (Westchester)

Black Rock Historical Society (Erie)

Boscobel House and Gardens (Putnam)

Burchfield Penney Art Center (Erie)

Cayuga Museum of History and Art (Cayuga)

Chapman Museum (Warren)

Chemung County Historical Society (Chemung)

Chenango County Historical Society and Museum (Chenango)

Clarkson Historical Society (Monroe)

Clinton County Historical Association (Clinton)

Columbia County Historical Society (Columbia)

Conference House Association Inc (NYC - Richmond)

Dansville Area Historical Society (Livingston)

Davis Town Meeting House Society Inc. (Suffolk)

DIA Center for the Arts, Inc. (NYC - Manhattan)

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance (NYC - Manhattan)

East Hampton Historical Society (Suffolk)

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (Rockland)

Everson Museum of Art (Onondaga)

Friends of Rock Hall (Nassau)

Friends of the Sea Cliff Village Museum (Nassau)

Galen Historical Society (Wayne)

Genesee Country Village & Museum (Monroe)

Greater Patchogue Historical Society (Suffolk)

Hallockville Museum Farm (Suffolk)

Hammond Historical Museum (Saint Lawrence)

Hendrick I. Lott House Preservation Association (NYC - Kings)

Historic Richmond Town (NYC - Richmond)

Historic Saranac Lake (Franklin)

Historical Society of the Nyacks (Rockland)

Howland Stone Store Museum (Cayuga)

Iroquois Museum (Schoharie)

Kent-Delord House Museum (Clinton)

Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society (Ontario)

Lewis Latimer House Museum (NYC - Queens)

Lindenhurst Historical Society (Suffolk)

Livingston County Historical Society (Livingston)

Long Beach Historical and Preservation Society (Nassau)

Long Island Maritime Museum (Suffolk)

Middlesex Heritage Group (Yates)

Minerva Historical Society (Essex)

Morris Historical Society (Otsego)

Museum of Arts and Design (NYC - Manhattan)

National Comedy Center (Chautauqua)

National Lighthouse Museum (NYC - Richmond)

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (Saratoga)

New York City Fire Museum (NYC - Manhattan)

Niagara County Historical Society (Niagara)

Northport Historical Society (Suffolk)

North Castle Historical Society (Westchester)

Old Westbury Gardens (Nassau)

Oneida Community Mansion House (Madison)

Onondaga Historical Association (Onondaga)

Pawling Historical Society (Dutchess)

Planting Fields Foundation (Nassau)

Port Chester Historical Society (Westchester)

Raynham Hall Museum (Nassau)

Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History (Ulster)

Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation (NYC - Manhattan)

Roberson Museum and Science Center (Broome)

Rocky Point Historical Society (Suffolk)

Rome Historical Society (Oneida)

Sardinia Historical Society (Erie)

Schoharie County Historical Society (Schoharie)

Skaneateles Historical Society (Onondaga)

Sonnenberg Gardens (Ontario)

Southampton History Museum (Suffolk)

Southold Historical Society (Suffolk)

Steel Plant Museum of Western New York (Erie)

Suffolk County Historical Society (Suffolk)

The Buffalo History Museum (Erie)

The Long Island Museum (Suffolk)

The Museum at Bethel Woods (Sullivan)

North Castle Historical Society (Westchester)

The Strong National Museum of Play (Monroe)

Three Village Historical Society (Suffolk)

Ticonderoga Historical Society (Essex)

Westhampton Beach Historical Society (Suffolk)

West Bloomfield Historical Society (Ontario)


Site Assessment Awardees

Anderson Falls Heritage Society (Essex)

Boscobel House and Gardens (Putnam)

Brooklyn Children's Museum (NYC- Kings)

Conference House Association Inc (NYC - Richmond)

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance (NYC - Manhattan)

Friends of Rock Hall (Nassau)

Historical Society of the Nyacks (Rockland)

Lewis Latimer House Museum (NYC - Queens)

Long Beach Historical and Preservation Society (Nassau)

Nassau County Museum of Art (Nassau)

New York City Fire Museum (NYC - Manhattan)

Port Chester Historical Society (Westchester)

Sardinia Historical Society (Erie)

The Long Island Museum (Suffolk)

West Bloomfield Historical Society (Ontario)



About the New York State Council on the Arts

The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award $127 million in FY 2024. The Council on the Arts further advances New York's creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit www.arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA's Facebook page, Twitter @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts


About Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN)

GHHN is New York State's ‘go-to' service organization focusing on interpretation, collections care programming, and the conservation and preservation of objects in collecting institutions statewide. Our programming and professional development training programs, webinars, hands-on workshops, web-based resources, responsive technical assistance, and grant opportunities provide the tools so that historical societies, historic house museums, heritage centers, historic sites, archives, and libraries may better care for their own collections. For more information, please visit www.greaterhudson.org or follow us on social media - @theghhn


About The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, established in 1987, primarily supports the study of New York State history. Robert David Lion Gardiner was, until his death in August 2004, the 16th Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, NY. The Gardiner family and their descendants have owned Gardiner's Island since 1639, obtained as part of a royal grant from King Charles I of England. The Foundation is inspired by Robert David Lion Gardiner's personal passion for New York history. For more information, please visit www.rdlgfoundation.org





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