{"id":29951,"date":"2016-06-06T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29951"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:07:23","slug":"dinniman-announces-80k-in-local-history-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29951","title":{"rendered":"Dinniman announces $80K in local history grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_826\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-image-826 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dinniman-243x300-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"dinniman-243x300\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Andrew Dinniman (D-19)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">State Senator Andy Dinniman announced that eight cultural and historic organizations in Chester County were awarded a total of $81,232 in state funding last week\u00a0from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur history is very much alive in Chester County thanks largely to historical organizations, societies, and museums that ensure that it is well-documented and preserved for the new generation,\u201d Dinniman said. \u201cEach of these organizations adds to the quality of life in Chester County in their own unique way by teaching us about our past and preparing us for the future.\u201d<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The funding came through two grant programs \u2013 the PHMC Support Grant and the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Program. The PHMC Support Grant provides funding for support and operating expenses to museum and historical organizations according to a formula based on their size and operating budgets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Seven historical organizations in Chester County were awarded PHMC Support Grants. They are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$8,699 for the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$17,711 for the Chester County Historical Society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$8,461 for the Graystone Society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$4,310 for Historic Sugartown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$10,349 for Historic Yellow Springs. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$4,000 for the Mill at Anselma.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$6,602 for the Wharton Esherick Museum. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These grants come as part of 137 organizations from 56 counties statewide that applied for and are receiving nearly $2 million in total PHMC Support Grant funding. Chester County was only second to Philadelphia in the number of PHMC Support Grants awarded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Keystone Historic Preservation (KHP) Grant program is used to fund preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration activities of historic sites that are eligible for or listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Non-profit organizations or municipalities who operate publicly accessible historic properties can apply for KHP grants to fund historic repair and renovation projects or planning activities like architectural drawings, historic assessments, archeology, regional planning or other historic preservation initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two Chester County organizations were awarded KHP grants. They are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$16,000 for Historic Sugartown to restore the East Porch of its Sharpless Worrall House (circa. 1860). Built in the Italianate style by Sugartown\u2019s storekeeper Sharpless Worrall, the House\u2019s prolific decorative porches are vital contributing features to the historic character of the home and the 19<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">-century village crossroads of Sugartown. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">$5,100 for the Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children for a 20-year maintenance plan for two historic buildings that are contributing resources to the National Register Historic District and the West Chester Historic Zoning District. The goal is to determine maintenance costs for budgeting. Separate plans will be developed for each building that include itemized\/cyclical maintenance, reserve replacement funding and programmatic upgrades.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These grants come as part of 30 projects statewide that will receive more than $1.2 million in KHP grant funding. Only 36 percent of the applications received for KHP grants were approved. Applicants are considered separately and the ration of funding recommendations is based on their respective totals in each category. All applicants are required to provide a 50 percent cash match in order to demonstrate their commitment to the projects. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator Andy Dinniman announced that eight cultural and historic organizations in Chester County were awarded a total of $81,232 in state funding last week\u00a0from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). \u201cOur history is very much alive in Chester County thanks largely to historical organizations, societies, and museums that ensure that it is well-documented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8488,1560,1316],"class_list":["post-29951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-historical","tag-sen-andy-dinniman","tag-state-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29952,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions\/29952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}