Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants

Period of Performance

12/1/2007 - 7/31/2013

Funding Totals (matching)

$330,000.00 (approved)
$330,000.00 (offered)
$330,000.00 (awarded)


President Calvin Coolidge Museum and Education Center

FAIN: CH-50619-09

Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation (Plymouth, VT 05056-0097)
Cynthia D. Bittinger (Project Director: May 2008 to December 2008)
Leonard R. Vignola (Project Director: December 2008 to August 2010)
Joan Randall (Project Director: August 2010 to August 2011)
Stephen S. Woods (Project Director: August 2011 to March 2013)
David R. Serra (Project Director: March 2013 to December 2013)
Matthew Denhart (Project Director: December 2013 to March 2015)

To Support: Renovation of the current, small visitors center into a new Coolidge Museum and Education Center.

The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, will expand and modernize the current 5,000 square feet Visitor Center in Plymouth Notch, VT into a 12,000 square feet President Calvin Coolidge Museum and Education Center. The project is (1) to raise funds to increase the foundation's endowment by $1 million to accommodate its future humanities programming, (2) to plan for the construction and renovation of the new facility, (3) to raise the estimated construction funds of $2.7 million, (4)to complete the construction, (5) to occupy the building, and (6) to launch expanded humanities programming. The new facility, which will be open year round, will house new modern classrooms, a conference and community meeting space with kitchen facilities, three new interactive exhibit spaces, a library of presidential print material and access to digital material, real and digital presidential archival material.