CHDF Grants

Bethany - Franklin

Bethany

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

      4/10/2003         $2,500    Archives Organization Project

Bethlehem

Bellamy Ferriday House

      1/27/1997         $5,250    The Making of a Colonial Revival Town:  Litchfield from 1850-1920

Bloomfield

VSA arts of Connecticut

      5/30/2002         $3,386    Cultural Access Connecticut Event Planning

Wintonbury Historical Society

      7/20/1999         $2,500    From Wintonbury to Bloomfield -- Bicycle Rides With an Historical Perspective

Bridgeport

Bridgeport Public Library

      10/8/1998        $11,500    Bridgeport Working:  Voices From the 20th Century

        3/3/2005         $3,696    Bridgeport Collective Memory:  Unlocking the Past for the Future

      10/6/2005         $4,500    Bridgeport Collective Memory:  Unlocking the Past for the Future

Literacy Volunteers Southeastern Fairfield County

        6/2/2004         $4,000    Festival of Words - A  Multicultural Celebration of Books, Stories, Poetry and Song for

                                           Adults and Children of All Ages

        3/3/2005         $4,250    Second Annual Festival of Words

The Barnum Museum

      4/11/1996        $34,090    Try This On:  A History of Clothing, Gender & Power

      10/3/1996        $57,451    Earth 2U, Exploring Geography

        2/5/1998         $1,784    Board Development Retreat

        4/8/1998        $26,549    Altered States

      6/30/1998         $9,350    Permanent Exhibition Enhancement - Phase II

Bristol

American Clock & Watch Museum, Inc.

      10/3/1996         $9,797    The Origins of the American Industrial Revolution in Connecticut Clockmaking

      10/9/1997      $112,658    The Origins of the American Industrial Revolution in Connecticut Clockmaking

    11/23/1999         $1,047    Trying Times:  The Life of Chauncey Jerome

Bristol Center for Arts & Culture/New England Carousel Museum

    10/30/2006         $2,500    The Bristol Center for Arts & Culture:  The Future

New England Carousel  Museum

        1/4/1996         $4,750    Mission Expansion:  Strategic Planning for Collection Growth

      8/28/1996         $5,000    NECM:  Marketing the Museum  Phase One

      6/26/1997        $20,000    The History of the Carousel

        6/9/1999         $3,480    Carrousselles:  Life or Fantasy

      4/22/2002         $2,500    History:  The Bushnell Park Carousel

Central Village

Plainfield Historical Society, Inc.

    11/21/1996         $5,000    Celebrating Plainfield's Heritage:  a Tercentenary Project

        4/1/1999         $5,000    Celebrating Plainfield, A Colonial Encampment

      8/15/2000         $3,500    Developing a Collections Policy & Procedures for the Plainfield Historical Society

Chester

Chester Historical Society

      3/19/2001         $2,499    Evaluation and Survey of the Chester Historical Society's Collection

    10/22/2001         $2,500    Interpretation and Prioritization of the Chester Historical Society's Collection, for the

                                           Development of Museum Themes

      12/9/2002         $2,000    An Overview and Validation of Chester's Industrial History

        1/4/2007         $5,000    Panning Storage Facilities for the Collection of The Chester Historical Society

Clinton

Clinton Historical Society

      7/23/2002         $2,355    Assessment of Collection Items and Museum Room - Clinton Historical Society

Colchester

Colchester Historical Society

      4/29/1998         $5,000    Colchester's Tricentennial Colonial Encampment

Cornwall

Cornwall Historical Society

    10/24/2000         $5,000    Cornwall in Photographs  A History  1868-1941

      5/27/2003         $4,502    Cornwall Historical Society Strategic Planning

      9/16/2005         $3,000    Cornwall Historical Society - Phase 2 Inventory

      2/16/2006         $3,984    Mapping the Future

    12/14/2006         $3,300    St. Bridget's Church

Cos Cob

Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich

      10/7/1996         $5,250    The Development of Interpretive Strategies for the Extended Bush-Holley Historic Site

      6/26/1997        $19,450    Bush-Holley House Museum and Historic Site Visitor Center Exhibition and Marketing

    12/23/1998         $2,500    African American Community History Project

        4/8/1999        $20,500    African Americans of Greenwich:  Planning for Exhibition, Programs, and Publications

      6/24/1999        $10,000    Reinterpretation of the Bush-Holley House

        4/6/2000        $40,000    African Americans of Greenwich:  Implementation for Exhibition, Programs and

                                            Publications

      10/5/2000        $63,375    The Reinterpretation of Bush-Holley Historic Site

      10/2/2001        $30,250    The Reinterpretation of Bush-Holley Historic Site

        1/9/2003        $15,250    Voices from the Civil War Online

      10/9/2003        $22,500    Slavery in Fairfield County

      12/1/2003         $2,500    Bush-Holley House Seasonal Interpretation and Event

        1/8/2004        $20,000    Architectural History of Greenwich

      6/24/2004        $38,425    Intimate Strangers:  Slavery in Fairfield County 1700-1850

    12/14/2006         $5,000    Cherishing Our Past:  Preserving Greenwich History

Coventry

Coventry Historical Society

      4/10/2003         $4,375    The Coventry Historical Society Strategic Planning Grant 2003

Danbury

Danbury Museum & Historical Society

      3/26/2002         $2,500    "Revolutionary Danbury" Commemorating the 225th Anniversary of the "Burning of

                                            Danbury" by British Forces on April 26, 1777

Danbury Preservation Trust

      5/31/1996         $5,000    A River Runs Through It:  The Urbanization of the Still River

      7/31/1996         $5,000    A River Runs Through It:  The Urbanization of the Still River

Darien

Darien Historical Society

        2/8/1999         $1,668    Exhibit:  From Barns to Bedrooms:  150 Years of the Railroad in Darien

YWCA Darien-Norwalk

      2/27/2006         $4,000    3 rd Annual Festival of Words - a Multicultural Celebration of Books, Stories, Poetry and

                                           Song for Adults and Children of all Ages

        1/4/2007        $10,250   4th Annual Festival of Words - A Multicultural Celebration of Books, Stories, Poetry and

                                           Song for Adults and Children of All Ages

Deep River

5th Alabama Field Music

        1/9/1997        $13,726    7th Annual Civil War Living History & Battles

        1/8/1998        $14,750    8th Annual Civil War Living History Encampment & Battle

        1/7/1999        $19,765    9th Annual Civil War Living History Encampment & Battles

        1/6/2000        $19,765    10th Annual Civil War Living History and Battles

      1/10/2002        $11,850    12th Annual Civil War Living History Encampment and Battles

        4/3/2003         $7,000    13th Annual Civil War Living History Encampment and Battles

East Haddam

Connecticut Society, Sons Of American Revolution

      10/7/2004        $10,090    Planning for the Future of Nathan Hale's Schoolhouses

East Haddam Historical Society

    12/14/2006         $3,000    Planning for the Installation of Heinz Warneke's Work in the East Haddam Historical

                                          Society's New Museum Wing

Goodspeed Opera House

      2/21/1997         $5,250    Goodspeed Opera House Marketing Survey

    10/12/1999        $18,907    Show Music Magazine - Millennium Issue

        7/1/2000         $5,000    Red, Hot & Blue:  Salute to American Musicals

East Hartford

Friends of Center Cemetery

      7/27/1998         $1,500    Center Cemetery Walking Tour Brochures

Town of East Hartford

      7/10/1996            $500    Development of a Cultural Plan for East Hartford

Vintage Radio & Communications Museum

      2/16/2001         $1,703    Strategic Planning at the Vintage Radio & Communications Museum

East Haven

CT Irish-American Historical Society, Inc.

      6/25/2003         $3,500    Remembering the Connecticut 9th Regiment in the Civil War:  Centennial Commemoration

                                           of Monument Unveiling

Essex

Connecticut River Museum

        1/6/1999         $4,900    Collection Assessment for the Connecticut River Foundation

      6/24/1999         $5,000    River of Hope:  The Connecticut River and Immigration, 1700-1930

        9/6/1999         $1,350    River of Hope

      6/30/2001         $5,000    Connecticut River Shad Fishery Documentation Project

      9/23/2002         $2,350    Dahlstrom Collection Assessment

      12/9/2002         $4,963    The Long River Winding

      4/20/2004         $5,189    Fenwick On-The-Sound

        9/3/2004         $5,180    The Camera's Coast

        6/2/2005         $4,953    Planning a New "River Connections"

      2/27/2006         $4,700    Launching Liberty:  The Connecticut Valley in the American Revolution

      4/13/2006        $20,272    River Connections - Planning Part II

      6/26/2006         $4,920    Launching Liberty:  The Curriculum on the Web

Essex Historical Society

      4/25/2000         $5,000    Collection Assessment

Fairfield

Connecticut Audubon Society

      9/23/2002         $2,999    Trail Wood Charrette

      1/14/2006         $1,500    Water

Fairfield Historical Society

      5/29/1997         $4,946    Fairfield in Focus

      11/3/1997         $3,675    Mabel Osgood Wright -- Exhibit Planning Grant

      6/30/1998        $12,193    The Friend of Nature:  Mabel Osgood Wright

      4/27/2001         $5,000    Fairfield in the 20th Century:  Transformation from Rural Landscape to Suburban Enclave

      12/4/2001         $4,830    Fairfield in the Forties:  The War Years and Aftermath

      9/24/2003         $4,900    Exhibit on the History of Exchange

        1/5/2006        $10,000    Planning the Move of Museum and Library Collections

      6/22/2006        $27,500    Planning the Core Exhibition of the New Fairfield Museum and History Center

        9/7/2006         $4,250    Colonial Fall Festival at Ogden House and Gardens

Falls Village

Falls Village/Canaan Historical Society

      2/27/1996         $5,000    Planning:  The Falls Village Heritage Park

      10/3/1996         $1,500    Planning for the Falls Village/Canaan Historical Society

      3/31/2000         $5,250    Expansion of Beckley Furnace Interpretation:  Definition of Visitor Experience and Site

                                           Circulation Plan

Farmington

Farmington Historical Society

      10/9/1996            $503    Researching and Interpreting Local African American History

    11/21/1996         $5,000    Black and White in a Yankee TownL  The African American Presence in Farmington, CT

      5/29/1997         $4,930    Black and White in a Yankee Town:  The African American Presence in Farmington, CT

Hill-Stead Museum

      6/26/1997         $2,750    The Puzzle of Patronage:  What Pieces Do We Have In Hand?

    12/14/1998         $3,300    Sunken Garden Poetry Seminar Series

Historic Sites of Connecticut's Farmington Valley

      8/28/1996         $4,355    Historic Sites in Connecticut's Farmington Valley - Farmington Canal Programs

Stanley-Whitman House

      8/26/1997         $3,582    Gossip and Godliness:  Farmington Life in the Late 18th-Century

        3/3/2000         $5,000    Strategic Planning Project

    10/29/2002         $5,000    Historic House Tour Re-Design

Franklin

Blue Slope Country Museum, Inc.

        3/3/2005         $2,982    Family Farm Day at Blue Slope Country Museum