Past Awards of Interpretation and Education Fund Grants

2008 Awards

• $1,000 to the Robie House to purchase materials for on-site workshops.
• $2,150 to Shadows on the Teche to design and install new interpretive materials for tours.
• $5,000 to the Hotel de Paris Museum to identify target audiences and a marketing strategy in partnership with nearby historic sites.
• $9,500 to the African Meeting House & Abiel Smith School for a project to involve middle-school students in the interpretation of the Black History Trail using wireless technology.
• $10,000 to the Wilson House to develop an audio tour using cell phones of the surrounding Embassy Row neighborhood.
• $10,000 to Drayton Hall to develop programs to engage school teachers and their students.
• $10,000 to Montpelier to revise the existing audio tour to incorporate new scholarship and changes as a result of the restoration of the mansion.

The Fund also provided Training Scholarships to the following staff members at National Trust Historic Sites:

• $600 to Jim Bert of the Hotel de Paris Museum to attend the AASLH workshop on historic house museum management and operations.
• $1000 to Beth Taylor of Montpelier to study innovative interpretive techniques at historic sites in England and the Netherlands.

2007 Awards

• $2,513 to Chesterwood for a series of three public lectures by scholars on artists and architects who collaborated or associated with Daniel Chester French.
• $6,625 to Lyndhurst for a consultant to assess the interpretive methods used in guided tours and recommend materials and equipment.
• $8,735 to Montpelier to convene a workshop with nine scholars to review the interpretive themes and methodologies for the mansion tours.
• $9,900 to Decatur House to interpret the adjacent Lafayette Square using self-guided audio tours using cell phones in an 18-month pilot project.
• $5,975 to Shadows-on-the-Teche for producing a videotaped tour that provides access to the second floor of the house to visitors with limited mobility.
• $10,000 to the Tenement Museum for a consultant to create a pilot Web site on the immigrant and migrant communuties of the Lower East Side with a searchable database and interactive map.
• $5,000 to Wilson House to produce a brochure on the core interpretive messages that visitors can take home at the end of a tour.
• $1,000 to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $999 to the Oatlands to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $1,000 to the Cooper Molera Adobe to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $900 to Shadows on the Teche to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $1,000 to Filoli to develop a native cultures thematic framework.
• $939 to the Drayton Hall to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $672 to Cliveden to attend the AASLH annual meeting.
• $650 to Belle Grove to purchase a digital camera and accessories.

2006 Awards

• $5,500 for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio to revise and update their volunteer training materials.
• $5,055 for Shadows on the Teche to create a heritage education package for school teachers that meets statewide guidelines.
• $7,000 for Cliveden to create a neighborhood walking tour with historical themes and multiple perspectives.
• $10,000 for Woodrow Wilson House to produce an exhibit on Woodrow Wilson that will travel to five venues.
• $9,940 for Decatur House to complete the second phase of an in-depth survey and evaluation of its audience.
• $655 to the Robie House for the Junior Interpreter Program training materials.
• $975 to Shadows-on-the-Teche for a teachers’ training workshop on steamboats and trains.
• $997 to Wilson House for the purchase of a digital projector.
• $740 to Lyndhurst to purchase educational materials for the Gilded Age school program.
• $1000 to Montpelier to install interpretive signs for the agricultural complex.
• $1000 to Chesterwood to replace directional signs to the Site.
• $1000 to Cooper-Molera Adobe to purchase educational materials for the 4th grade school program.
• $1000 to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio to attend the AASLH workshop on visitor research as part of the performance management program.
• $1000 to Cliveden to develop a prototype design of an exhibit as part of the master plan for refurnishing the house.

2005 Awards

• $2,620 to Belle Grove for the research on women at Belle Grove Plantation, 1783-1836.
• $10,000 to the Tenement Museum for their Interactive Online Tenement Museum Experience.
• $5,185 to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio for the “Architecture and History” school program.
• $4,000 for the second phase of the Web site development for Woodrow Wilson House.
• $9,000 to Cliveden to revise their Web site.
• $5,100 to Touro Synagogue for interpreter training to implement a comprehensive walking tour program.
• $9,000 to Decatur House to design and conduct visitor evaluation.

2004 Awards

• $4,000 to Montpelier to publish an interpretive and educational booklet written by several historians showcasing a recently-found drawing by Montpelier’s builder, James Dinsmore
• $4,300 to Drayton Hall to create an education and information room in the museum store and to install a site-orientation map outside
• $5,000 to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to create a walking tour of the neighborhood that is developed by the neighborhood’s various constituencies
• $5,000 to the Museum of Afro-American History to redesign and expand its Web site
• $2,500 to Touro Synagogue for a self-study and evaluation of its public interpretive program using consultants experienced in American religious history, historic site interpretation, and heritage tourism.
• $2,250 to Shadows-on-the-Teche to renovate its Web site
• $7,500 to Woodrow Wilson House to redesign its Web site
• $1,500 to Belle Grove to complete an oral history video production of former residents
• $3,125 to Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and Frederick C. Robie House to conduct a comparative geodemographic analysis of visitors at two historic sites.
• $900 to Woodrow Wilson House to install a temporary exhibit on the presidential campaigns of the 1910s and the World War I peace negotiations.
• $950 to Cliveden to promote the Cliveden Institute’s spring 2005 program on the history of public memory and its affect on the interpretation of historic sites.
• $855 to Woodlawn to purchase about two dozen books on historical interpretation and museum education for its staff reference library.