THE 1772 FOUNDATION Preserving American Historical Treasures

ANNUAL REPORT / 2006

One of 1772’s first grantees twenty years ago, the Red Mill Museum of Clinton, N.J. received a $50,000 restoration grant in July of 2006.

Photo by Jack Aquila, courtesy of the Red Mill Museum. The Liberty Hall Museum’s new Firehouse, dedicated in Spring of 2005. REMEMBERING STEWART BARNEY KEAN Founder of the 1772 Foundation

tewart Barney Kean had a life-long interest “museum shuffle,” nor should they be. As a result in historic preservation, and some twenty-odd of their ability to access and digest large amounts of years ago he formed the 1772 Foundation to help information, young people today have keener noses preserveS unique historic structures with a particular for authenticity and relevancy, useful strengths when interest in farming, transportation and industry. His interpreting history. group of five Trustees, all of whom were old friends, As we move forward, we seek out groups who would meet once a year and approve preservation can work successfully with this new breed of student grants totaling approximately $100,000. While by giving them the opportunity for authentic, relevant the Foundation was designed to cover the entire experiences like the “Black Damask” orchard replanting United States, as a practical matter in view of the project, researched and carried out by students from limited resources in that earlier period, grants were the Baltimore Talent Development High School, a geographically confined to New Jersey, and southern project that is profiled in this report. New England where the founding Trustees were We are interested in schools that preserve domiciled. traditional building crafts through hands-on curricula, and how Stewart’s passion for preservation stemmed from two sources. distance learning can bring authentic historic adventures directly to First, he was born in Liberty Hall, and lived there a good part of students in a classroom far away, such as Amistad’s Sankofa sail to his life. This residence was originally built in 1772 by Governor Nova Scotia this year. Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey. The Governor had We recognize that all Americans, regardless of age, are students a daughter who married a Kean, and the Kean family lived there of history or certainly should be. We are interested in groups for nine generations until Stewart’s mother died, at which point who can bring a new audience to history, or who can help us to he then converted it into a museum. Secondly, his mother had better understand the complexities of our shared experience. Two a passion for preservation, and in his earlier years he helped his wonderful examples of groups that are taking new and important mother restore a series of colonial houses in Elizabeth where they looks at history are James Madison’s Montpelier, where the Center lived. for the Constitution brings teachers to their campus to more Stewart died four and a half years ago, and since his death thoroughly study this core American document. These teachers the Board has been faced with the responsibility of expanding bring their increased knowledge back to tens of thousands of its geographic coverage, and committing more than twenty times students. what we formerly put out each year. Thus, we now have quarterly Likewise, the Archaearium at Jamestowne, Virginia has meetings, and dispense grants several times a year, as we don’t want provided a way for the average person to understand the meaning deserving recipients to have to wait for annual disbursements. The of over 1 million artifacts unearthed there. Without their advanced breath and scope of our commitments has compelled us interpretive building, these items are functionally mute to most of to focus more attentively on maintaining the quality of prospective us. They will celebrate their 400th anniversary next year, and the applicants. Archaearium will welcome them into the centuries-old history of In this regard, we now require two in-house persons to visit all this very important historic site. sites we are considering, and I believe having two points of view on The 1772 Foundation is also most supportive of those an applicant has enabled us to maintain a very high level of quality entrepreneurial groups who can successfully leverage preservation in our grant recipients. Moreover, I am very pleased to announce dollars. Endangered property funds, also called “revolving funds,” the election of two new Trustees to our Board who will no doubt have been a strong draw for the Foundation and we have funded prove most helpful in maintaining the quality of our grants going three thus far in Virginia and Georgia, as well as sponsoring a day- forward: Professor Gretchen Sorin of Cooperstown, New York and long session with corresponding print and web materials for the Dr. Nancy Davis of Bethesda, Maryland, both of whom are profiled October 2006 National Trust for Historic Preservation National in this report, will be joining us in January. Each of these women Conference in Pittsburgh. These highly leveraged funds have brings an extensive knowledge of, and passion for, the preservation the potential to save scores of historic structures with a relatively world and we look forward to having them on board. modest initial investment and we applaud the preservation ethic As we grow, we remain more determined then ever to honor and entrepreneurial spirit of those groups who manage these funds. Stewart’s gift to American historic preservation by funding projects In many ways, the foundation has changed immensely since that make an impact. Moving forward, we see significant trends Stewart’s passing. We have an office, staff, and a growing board. developing. Clearly, involving young people is a most critical Our work takes us throughout the country and into new areas component if we are to ensure the future of preservation. Without of preservation that were not evident in Stewart’s lifetime. Still, their interest, historic sites and museums will succumb to a Stewart Kean’s wishes are visible in everything we do. While we deepening lack of interest, the most serious threat to preservation greatly miss his friendship, generosity, and good humor, we still feel efforts in our country today. his presence in each of the successful preservation projects carried Young people today are accustomed to on-demand out by his foundation. We will continue to do so as we move information. Today’s middle and high school students have never forward. lived in a world where they could not instantly find the answer to any question on the internet. This technology is so immensely With warmest wishes for a happy and healthy 2007, powerful that we probably have not begun to comprehend its importance in the preservation world. The Foundation recognizes that technology is changing the way preservation will be carried G. Stanton Geary out. While it may have closed some doors to traditional patterns G.S. Geary of designing and using historic sites, it has certainly opened scores President, 1772 Foundation of windows. Young people are not interested in the traditional

2 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 1772 Foundation Fiscal 2006 - Grants Awarded

Applicant ST Project Grant Award

GRANTS AWARDED LIST Manchester Historical Society CT Cheney Brothers Machine Shop 25,000 Indian and Colonial Research Center Mystic CT brick repointing 5,000 Thompson Historical Society CT Old Town Hall 8,000 Connecticut Farmland Trust CT “Working the Land” 30,000 Joshua’s Tract Conservation & Historic Trust CT Gurleyville Grist Miller’s House 3,300 Mystic Seaport Museum CT Archives/Mill Restoration 40,000 Scotland Historical Society CT Waldo House beehive oven repair 6,250 Friends of Peirce Mill DC mill restoration 50,000 National Trust for Historic Preservation DC revolving fund education 50,000 Historic Savannah GA Endangered Properties Revolving Fund 60,000 Hancock Shaker Village MA trustees house and dwelling 70,000 The Bostonian Society MA Old State House 35,000 Clara Barton Birthplace MA house restoration 25,000 Museum Of African American History MA Boston-Higginbotham House Nantucket 50,000 Norman Rockwell Museum MA Rockwell’s studio roof 15,000 Whittier Home Association MA John Greenleaf Whittier Home 14,000 Maryland Historical Society MD Textile Conservation Project 75,000 Carroll Park Foundation MD Black Damask Orchard Project 35,000 Fire Museum Of Maryland MD Seagrave engine restoration 35,000 Historic Annapolis Foundation MD The Barracks 30,000 Trust for Public Land ME Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village 100,000 Maine Lighthouse Museum ME Ken Black Exhibition Hall 50,000 Jewett Eastman Memorial Committee ME rewiring match 2,750 Coastal Mountains Land Trust ME Beech Nut Restoration 25,000 Maine Historical Society ME Wadsworth-Longfellow House 30,000 Strawbery Banke Museum NH Cotton Tenant House 40,000 Lighthouse Kids NH White Island Lighthouse 25,000 Trust for Public Land NH Daniel Webster Farm 50,000 Holcombe Jimison Farm Museum NJ 1711 house restoration 15,000 Historic Cold Spring Village NJ Saving Coxe Hall 62,500 Liberty Hall NJ fire engine restoration 100,000 Trustees of the Ralston Cider Mill NJ Ralston Cider Mill 50,000 Red Mill Museum Village NJ Red Mill Preservation 50,000 The Farmers Museum NY More House 50,000 Historic House Trust of New York City NY Dyckman Farmhouse 20,000 Historic Hudson Valley NY Barn roof restoration 20,000 Independence Seaport Museum PA Olympia wheel house 50,000 Blithewold RI visitors center 50,000 Redwood Library & Athenaeum RI restoration of library 25,000 International Yacht Restoration School RI Aquidneck Mill Building 75,000 International Tennis Hall of Fame RI Newport Casino 14,000 Rhode Island Historical Society RI John Brown House 50,000 James Madison’s Montpelier VA stable restoration 50,000 Historic Richmond VA Endangered Properties Revolving Fund 50,000 Maymont Foundation VA children’s farm 30,000 APVA VA John Marshall house 50,000 APVA VA Endangered Properties Revolving Fund 50,000 Thomas Jefferson Foundation VA Monticello-underground passageway 50,000 The Friends of Robert Frost VT Robert Frost Stone House 20,000 Museum of the American West WY Coutant Cabin, Borners Garden School 85,000

Total $2,000,800

1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 3 1772 Foundation 2006 Grant Statistics

GRANT DOLLARS BY STATE: • The 1772 Foundation distributed $2,000,800 in historic preservation grants from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006 which represents 50 Virginia 14% organizations in 14 states. New Jersey 14% • Additionally, $150,000 in director-recommended grants were approved Rhode Island 11% and distributed to other 501 c 3 organizations including: The American Massachusetts 10% Lighthouse Foundation, B.G.C.N. Life Camp, Center for Hope Hospice, Connecticut Audubon Society, Dinosaur Ridge, End Hunger Connecticut, Maine 10% International Yacht Restoration School, Jackson Hole Historical Maryland 9% Society & Museum, Norma Pfriem Breast Cancer Center, Old York Connecticut 7% Historical Society, Pomfret Historical Society, Pomfret-Eastford Little New Hampshire 6% League, Putney School, Raritan Valley Community College, Saint Mary School Putnam, Shelburne Farms, St. Joseph Church, Trust for Public Washington, D.C. 5% Land, Upper Raritan Watershed Association, Visiting Nurse Association NY 4% of Somerset Hills, Willard Clock Museum, and the Wyndham Land Trust. Wyoming 4% Georgia 3% • Grants ranged from $2,750 for a rewiring project at the Jewett Eastman Memorial Committee in Maine to $100,000 to the Trust for Public Land Pennsylvania 2% Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village project and $100,000 to the Liberty Hall Vermont 1% Museum in New Jersey.

• The average grant amount for 2006 was $40,016; median $40,000; mode $50,000. The top ten grants represent $727,500, or 36% of the total given.

• Virginia received the most grant dollars, $280,000. New Jersey followed with $277,500. Each state received 14 grants.

4 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM Studio Roof Project • Stockbridge, MA • $15,000

he Norman Rockwell Museum has building and its contents. received a grant from The 1772 Founda- In 1976, Rockwell placed Ttion to preserve the Studio and the artifacts his Studio and its furnish- Norman Rockwell where thousands of ings in trust to the Norman people visit annually to learn about the Rockwell Museum. In working life of a 20th century American keeping with Rockwell’s illustrator. wish that his Stockbridge The Norman Rockwell Museum has workplace be preserved among its most important holdings for the public, the Studio Norman Rockwell’s last Stockbridge Studio appears as it was during the last years of his life. On view in the Studio are Rockwell’s 500-volume art library, his furnish- ings and other decorative items, ethnographic objects, mementos collected on his world travels, and artwork sent by admirers. In this simple adapted barn, a highly-functional artist’s workplace, Norman Rockwell created some of his best-loved works, including the Triple Self- Norman Rockwell at studio door Portrait and The Runaway. Photo by Louie Lamone Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum Photo ©2006 Norman Rockwell Museum

CONNECTICUT Manchester Historical Society Thompson Historical Society Joshua’s Tract Cheney Brothers Machine Shop Old Town Hall Conservation & Historic Trust Manchester, CT Thompson, CT Miller’s House re-painting $25,000 $8,000 Mansfield, CT • $3,300

Indian & Colonial Research Center CT Farmland Trust Mystic Seaport Museum Exterior brick repair “Working the Land” documentary Rossie Velvet Mill Old Mystic, CT Hartford, CT Mystic, CT $5,000 $30,000 $40,000

1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 5 Scotland Historical Society National Trust for Historic Preservation MASSACHUSETTS Beehive oven, chimney repair Revolving fund education and promotion Hancock Shaker Village Scotland, CT Washington, D.C. Restoration and repair of four buildings $6,250 $50,000 Pittsfield, MA • $70,000

GEORGIA Historic Savannah Foundation Revolving Fund DISTRICT of COLUMBIA Savannah, GA The Bostonian Society Friends of the Pierce Mill $60,000 Old State House Grist mill restoration Boston, MA Washington, D.C. $50,000 $50,000

Clara Barton Birthplace CARROLL PARK FOUNDATION House restoration Black Damask Orchard Project • West Baltimore, MD • $35,000 North Oxford, MA $25,000 disastrous planning decisions, the site is a remarkable example of the Mid-Atlantic’s unique cultural diversity, particularly its African American heritage. What began as a project to restore the 1767 orchard at Carroll’s Hundred can now take flight. This generous grant has come at a critical and strategically important moment, allowing us to expand activities and to Museum Of African American History involve more students eager to inform the Seneca Boston-Higginbotham House public and our elected officials about the Nantucket, MA importance of preserving this important $50,000 landmark. One day, this grant will be seen as one of the deciding factors in saving one of America’s priceless historic treasures! unding from The 1772 Foundation comes at a wonderful moment for We are so grateful! Thank you from theF Carroll Park Foundation and our all of us at Carroll’s Hundred and The student partners from The Baltimore Baltimore Talent Development High Talent Development High School in West School. Baltimore as we work to save Carroll’s Hundred, a rare Revolutionary Period landscape masquerading as an obscure city park. Endangered over the years by

6 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 Whittier Home Association Paint/restoration Amesbury, MA THE FARMERS’ MUSEUM $14,000 Jonas More House Project • Roxbury, NY • $50,000

upported by the 1772 Foundation been able to properly restore the structure The Farmers’ Museum of Cooperstown, of the home and install a heating system; S New York implemented an exciting project complete woodwork and finishes in the in 2006 to renovate the historic Jonas More kitchen, entrance hall and parlor; and install House while creating expanded learning wallpapers from the museum’s American opportunities for museum visitors. The Wallpaper Manufactory in both the More House is a federal period 1818 family entryway and parlor on the first floor. The home originally built in Roxbury, N.Y. entryway features an Ashlar Block patterned At the museum, the structure was rebuilt paper that was originally found in a building using the best museum standard restoration on Main Street in Cooperstown that was practices where it is poised to become an undergoing renovation and the parlor has

MARYLAND Maryland Historical Society Accessible Storage/Campus consolidation Baltimore, MD • $75,000

Fire Museum Of Maryland Museum improvements Lutherville, MD $35,000 innovative and interactive feature of the a Wheat and Crescent style paper from institution’s programming. The project is Middlefield, New York. teaching museum visitors about historic After completing the next step of restoration and research, crafts production creating reproduction furniture for the and the social history of the early nation. house, the exhibit will offer museum guests a The Farmers’ Museum is a living unique, hands-on experience of history. history museum dedicated to representing Visitors will have the opportunity to sit 19th-century American rural life as typified in the parlor and read the 1845 news from in central New York by preserving the past New York and Washington. Sample portions and educating for the future. The grounds of seasonally appropriate suppers, prepared include more than 20 examples of upstate on the hearth, will be available for museum Historic Annapolis Foundation New York architecture, including a stone visitors to eat. Periodically, dramatic The Barracks blacksmith shop, one-room schoolhouse, reenactments of episodes illustrating the Annapolis, MD • $30,000 printing office, tavern, barns and a church. effects of national events on a family farm The Jonas More House, one of the key will be held to help visitors understand structures in the historic village, illustrates a family life and interaction in the mid-19th typical household of an upper middle-class century. businessman and farmer. The More House, As the project progresses, we plan to built in 1818, was removed from its original implement programming that will include location in Hubbell’s Corners, NY in the educating people about how to restore old 1980s and, in 1999, was reconstructed at houses and respect their historical integrity, The Farmers’ Museum. creating folk art that celebrates our common With help from the grant received from heritage, and learning traditional American The 1772 Foundation, the museum has crafts like blacksmithing and weaving.

1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 7 Coastal Mountains Land Trust Beech Nut INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM Rockport, ME Olympia Wheel House • Philadelphia, PA • $50,000 $25,000

he 1772 Foundation awarded Independence Seaport Museum, TPhiladelphia, a $50,000 grant in 2006 to further restore the USS Olympia, a National Historic Landmark. Olympia played a key role in America’s victory in the Spanish- American War, destroying the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, which established the United States as a world power. In 1921, Olympia returned the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to Arlington National Cemetery. Today, Olympia is a floating educational venue NEW HAMPSHIRE outside the Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia. Specifically, the Strawbery Banke Museum foundation’s grant enabled the Museum to Cotton Tenant House restore Olympia’s pilothouse, or wheelhouse, Portsmouth, N.H. using the craftsmen in the Museum’s own $40,000 boat-building shop, Workshop on the Water, to create an exact replica of an original pilothouse aboard Olympia. The pilothouse (pictured) will be on display in the lobby of the Museum until the spring or summer of 2007, when it will be hoisted aboard Olympia and installed in place of an earlier, deteriorated wheelhouse.

MAINE Maine Lighthouse Museum Maine Historical Society Ken Black Exhibition Hall Wadsworth-Longfellow House Rockport, ME Portland, ME • $30,000 $50,000

Lighthouse Kids White Island Lighthouse accessibility improvement North Hampton, NH $25,000

Jewett Eastman Memorial Committee Electrical rewiring South Berwick, ME Trust for Public Land $2,750 Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village New Gloucester, Maine $100,000

8 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 Trust for Public Land NEW JERSEY Historic Cold Spring Village Daniel Webster Farm Holcombe Jimison Farm Museum Coxe Hall Franklin, NH 1711 House Restoration Cape May, N.J. $50,000 Lambertville, NJ • $15,000 $62,500

RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY John Brown House • Providence, RI • $50,000

ne of the most historically significant ened. The Society thereupon began to plan and rebuilt and the oldest masonry repaired. The houses in New England is the John raise funds for a multi-year restoration effort front part of the house is safe for visitors and OBrown House in Providence, Rhode Island. that would be the most intensive and expensive for history, and we expect that this will be This designated National Historic Land- such effort in the Society’s 184-year history, and so for many generations into the future: the mark was built in 1788 and is owned by which would include substantial repairs to both Society can now continue educating its many the Rhode Island Historical Society. The interior and exterior features of the structure. thousands of annual visitors about Rhode house is a grand, late Georgian style man- The first part of this long-term project, Island’s engaging and sometimes tumultuous sion where George Washington, Thomas the Phase I stage addressing roof and exterior history. Work on Phase II, which we plan Jefferson and other distinguished figures repairs to the main, 18th century block of the to begin in spring 2007, will address the from our early national history were enter- house, has just been completed, with the help of exterior restoration of the rear of the house. tained, but in Rhode Island this house also the 1772 Foundation. The house fairly gleams Phases III and IV will address repairs, safety represents the fascinating complexities of and doubtless looks better than it has in a issues, and the installation of a climate the state’s history: John Brown, who built century, maybe even in two centuries. The main control system in the interior of the building. the house, was a distinguished Revolution- block is now fully sealed from the elements, We hope the whole project can be completed ary patriot, loyal cultural figure and ex- protecting the structure itself and the valuable in 2010. ceptionally enterprising merchant, but also collections inside. Its outstanding carved wood- a slave trader, slave owner, and defender work has now been restored and can be fully Bernard P. Fishman, Executive Director of slavery. An essential component of the appreciated, and its oldest chimneys have been The Rhode Island Historical Society Rhode Island Historical Society’s mission is to present this house to the public and to use it and the outstanding objects it con- tains to examine this rich and contradic- tory mine of human experience, including also the significance of the house’s later his- tory when it was in the hands of educators and industrialists who also had prominent roles in Rhode Island history. The John Brown House is the Society’s major public enterprise among its several kinds of operations (including the state’s premier research archive), and the special treasure of its extensive holdings. Since ac- quiring the building in 1941, however, the Society had never been able to undertake a major renovation of the structure. A series of condition reports in 2003-2005 revealed that the building needed substantial repairs to its roof, masonry and exterior woodwork, to a degree that suggested that in the absence of such repairs it could not safely be viewed by the public and that its structural integrity would soon be threat-

1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 9 Liberty Hall Museum Fire Museum: Engine Restoration APVA PRESERVATION Elizabeth, N.J. Endangered Properties Revolving Fund • Lynchburg, VA • $50,000 $100,000

ounded in 1889, APVA Preservation Virginia’s mission is to preserve and Fpromote the state’s irreplaceable historic structures, landscapes, collections, communities and archeology for educational, cultural and economic benefit of the public. One of the best ways to fulfill this mission is to protect Virginia’s architecturally and historically significant structures through its Revolving Funds Program. The grant APVA received from the unique architectural features or local 1772 Foundation provided the seed money historical significance, buildings that have to Trustees of the Ralston Cider Mill to start a second Endangered Historic be moved to save them from destruction or Peach conveyor, turbine, mill restoration Properties Revolving Fund within our buildings that have been altered from their Mendham, NJ Revolving Funds Program. The 1772 original appearance but could be restored. $50,000 Foundation’s support in establishing The importance and practicality of this second Revolving Fund is invaluable establishing a second Revolving Fund can in helping APVA address the extensive be demonstrated with the Bransford Vawter number of endangered significant historic house, 1818, located in Lynchburg, VA. The properties throughout Virginia and to be house, a fine example of a 19th century more effective and comprehensive in scope. vernacular home of the Federal period, The newly established second was slated for demolition by the City of revolving fund will complement and Lynchburg because of severe neglect by an augment APVA’s first Revolving Fund, out-of-state owner. This building was too a State-endowed fund. The second fund significant architecturally and historically will serve as a stop-gap measure to save to be lost. Bransford Vawter is known as endangered historic properties that are Lynchburg’s first poet. He lived and died in architecturally and historically significant this house at the early age of 23. but do not meet the guidelines for purchase The house was not eligible for by the State-endowed fund. inclusion on the Historic Registers because Red Mill Museum Village it needed to be dismantled Mill alarm and sprinkler system and moved to avoid Clinton, N.J. $50,000 demolition and because of these circumstances did not qualify for purchase by APVA’s State-endowed Revolving Fund. A private gift to purchase the house ensured its safety. If not purchased, the building would have been demolished and an important piece of Virginia’s heritage would have been gone forever. The Bransford Vawter NEW YORK House has been dismantled Historic House Trust of NYC In order for properties to be acquired and is in storage. It is being actively Van Dyckman Farmhouse by APVA’s state-endowed Revolving Fund marketed for sale. Proceeds from the sale New York, NY all properties purchased must be either will go back into the second Revolving Fund. $20,000 eligible for or on the State and/or National Grant funding from the 1772 Historic Registers. However, not being Foundation has allowed the two distinct included on the Historic Registers does not yet corresponding Revolving Funds to diminish an historic property’s importance. operate side-by-side under the umbrella Examples of historically or architecturally of APVA’s Revolving Funds Program, significant buildings that fall into this ensuring far greater impact in meeting category are vernacular buildings with APVA’s mission throughout Virginia.

10 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 Historic Hudson Valley International Tennis Hall of Fame A.P.V.A. Virginia Preservation Philipsburg Manor Barn Restoration Horseshoe Piazza John Marshall House Sleepy Hollow, NY Newport, RI Richmond, VA $20,000 $14,000 $50,000

RHODE ISLAND VIRGINIA Thomas Jefferson Foundation Save Blithewold, Inc. James Madison’s Montpelier Monticello Bristol, Rhode Island Stable restoration Underground passageway Carriage House restoration • $50,000 Orange, Virginia • $50,000 Charlottesville, VA • $50,000

Redwood Library and Athenaeum Historic Richmond Foundation VERMONT Library restoration Revolving Fund Friends of Robert Frost Newport, R.I. Richmond, VA Orchard replanting $25,000 $50,000 Shaftsbury, VT • $20,000

International Yacht Restoration School Maymont Foundation WYOMING Aquidneck Mill Building Tiffany window Coutant Cabin, Borners Garden Newport, R.I. Richmond, VA Lander, Wyoming $75,000 $30,000 $85,000

Photo by: Onne van der Wal 1772 ANNUAL REPORT / 2006 11 Nancy Davis and Gretchen Sullivan Sorin join the 1772 Foundation Board of Trustees

Nancy Davis has worked in museums, historic houses, and historical societies for more than thirty years. Most recently she served as the deputy director of museums for the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland. Previously she was the assistant director of museum programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, director of the historic Octagon Museum in Washington, D.C., assistant curator at Gunston Hall in Virginia, and an exhibition coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. She has served on numerous museum, education, and historical organization boards. Nancy has a PhD. in American Studies and a masters in Museum Education – both from George Washington University. For the past eight years she has also been an adjunct professor in the American Studies, Museum Studies, and Art History departments at George Washington University and the University of Baltimore.

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin holds a B.A. degree from Rutgers University in American Studies and an M.A. in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She is currently a doctoral candidate completing her dissertation in the history department of the State University of New York at Albany. Sorin has more than thirty years of experience in the museum profession working for more than 250 museums as a museum consultant. She has served as a guest curator for many exhibitions including the nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews for the Jewish Museum in New York and the award-winning Wilderness Cure: Tuberculosis and the Adirondacks for the Adirondack Museum. Sorin is currently the Director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, a training program for museum curators, educators and directors co-sponsored by the State University of New York College at Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association. She writes and lectures frequently on African American history and museum practice. Her most recent books include Touring Historic Harlem, Four Walks in Northern Manhattan with architectural historian Andrew Dolkart and In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

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