Grant Portfolio
Grant Year: 2021
The Montauk Historical Society (MHS) has announced receipt of a grant of $390,700 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the restoration of the iconic 225-year-old sandstone and brick Montauk Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse, commissioned in 1792 by President George Washington, was built in 1796 and has served as an aid to navigation ever since. Citing high maintenance costs, the U. S. Coas . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation is partnering with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Library and Archives in a novel STEM history program to raise public awareness of Long Island’s rich history of fostering advances in science and technology. The program incorporates a History of Science Scholar, a dedicated website, annual lectures and exhibits. The goal of the two-year $250,000 grant i . . .
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Grant Year: 2021
Mapping Historical New Your - Phase II: Columbia University has been awarded a major grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to create an online, interactive atlas of historic New York City spanning the years 1820 to 1940. The project is a collaboration of Columbia’s History Department and the Center for Spatial Research in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSA . . .
Grant Year: 2021
Ketcham Inn Foundation, Inc. interprets over 330 years of history on Long Island's South Shore. Established in 1989, the Foundation developed a mission to restore the Terry-Ketcham Inn, a settlement site, resident blacksmith, social center, meeting house, former stagecoach stop between Manhattan and Sag Harbor during the 18th and 19th century. Today a well established living History Museum and Cultural Center . . .
Hudson Archival - New Amsterdam History Center
Grant Year: 2021
An encyclopedia of Dutch Colonial History linked to maps of the Castello Plan (the earliest map of New Amsterdam) the Mapping Early New York project provides dynamic historic context to the geography of New York State in the form of an interactive digital map. Layers of the map include accessible graphic representations and original documents that relate people and places. The Timeline feature is a . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Gardiner-Shenker Student Scholars Program encourages students not only to learn about history of their communities, but also to see themselves as a part of the history of New York City. The program provides close mentorship between students, professors, and staff while introducing students to primary research methods using different collections from the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. (Past projects ha . . .
Grant Year: 2021
Hallockville Museum Farm has been awarded a $9,788 grant by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to be used to create a high-tech, virtual Sustainability Trail at Hallockville. The trail will make use of some 30 informational guide signs that already dot the Hallockville grounds. Each sign will be fitted with a QR code. When scanned by a tour taker with a camera app on a smartphone, an audio narration . . .
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 | 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
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
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
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 . . .
