Grant Portfolio
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 . . .
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 window . . .
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 . . .
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 important . . .
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 efficiently . . .
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 community, . . .
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 remarkable . . .
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
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
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.
