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New York Historical Society

New York Historical Society

Grant Year: 2020

The New-York Historical Society is grateful to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for its award of $43,050 to support the production of Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville, a groundbreaking catalogue and accompanying gallery exhibition that will introduce the public to Anne-Marguérite-Joséphine-Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771–1849), an im . . .

Museum of the City of New York

Museum of the City of New York | New York, New York

Grant Year: 2020

The Museum of the City of New York has been awarded a $150,000 grant by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.  The funds will be used to embark on a project to digitize the Harry T. Peters papers – consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera, publications, prints, and photographs, and to upgrade the Museum’s nearly 10-year-old digital lab equipment in order to most effectively and ef . . .

Ward Melville Heritage Organization

Ward Melville Heritage Organization

Grant Year: 2020

The Ward Melville Heritage Organization (WMHO) has been awarded a matching grant of $30,625.00 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to support the roof restoration of the Thompson House (c.1709) in Setauket, New York. The Thompson House (c.1709) was home to five generations of Thompsons. American Patriot, Farmer and Physician, Doctor Samuel Thompson was a prestigious member of the Setauket commun . . .

Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society

Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society

Grant Year: 2020

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has awarded a generous grant of $125,525 to the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society toward their front porch restoration that will provide accessibility to the Sands-Willets House in Port Washington. This historically correct renovation will include the addition of a modern access ramp to allow entry to all, including those with wheelchairs and strollers.

Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill Sanctuary

Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill Sanctuary

Grant Year: 2020

The Van-Wyck Lefferts Tide Mill, located in Lloyd Harbor, NY, is considered one of the best preserved eighteenth century tide mills in the United States and is one of only ten surviving examples of tide mills in the northeast from Virginia to Maine.  The matching grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation in the amount of $97,137.50 will help to ensure the continued preservation of this remark . . .

Spinney Clock Guild

Spinney Clock Guild

Grant Year: 2020

The Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson is pleased to announce that a grant request to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation (www.rdlgfoundation.org) has been awarded.  The Historical Society has received a grant award of $1,000 to support the Historical Society’s Spinney Clock Collection and Guild.  Early in the 2000’s, the Spinney Clock Guild was organized with the goal of training enough . . .

Three Village Historical Society

Three Village Historical Society

Grant Year: 2020

Three Village Historical Society, an educational nonprofit, has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to be used to rebuild, restore, and repurpose the Dominic-Crawford Barn, a historically significant building from circa 1847, with the express intention of reinstating its structural historic integrity and converting it into usable space for both the organization and the public.

Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society

Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society

Grant Year: 2020

Fire Island– The Fire Island Preservation Society has been awarded a matching grant of $7,450.00 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to support the new interactive software display in the Keeper’s Quarters Museum. “The Lighthouse In Time” display will detail the history of the Fire Island Lighthouse in an interactive program with a 27 inch monitor.

Jazz Loft

Jazz Loft

Grant Year: 2020

The RDLGF awarded the Jazz Loft a $40,000 grant to support a project that will create a modern, functioning space for the Loft’s archiving  project to inventory and digitalize the more than 10,000 historical Jazz artifacts in the possession of the museum and renovate the building’s basement, which dates to the 1770’s, to serve as the archive project’s center of operation. This project will exte . . .

Long Island Traditions

Long Island Traditions

Grant Year: 2020

The Gardiner Foundation is supporting the development of a series of heritage tours by Long Island Traditions that will be part of the TravelStorys app (https://www.travelstorys.com/). The tours will explore Long Island’s maritime culture and ethnic heritage, through stories collected by Long Island Traditions.  Stops will include the Scopinich boat yard in Freeport, south shore bay houses, the site of . . .