Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

6/1/1981 - 11/30/1982

Funding Totals

$50,202.00 (approved)
$50,202.00 (awarded)


Allentown's Wooden Ornament and the Carpenters Who Made It: A Documentation and Exhibit

FAIN: GM-*1736-80

Lehigh County Historical Society (Allentown, PA 18101-1501)
Karyl L. Hall (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)

To support an interpretive exhibition to examine the process by which Allentown, Pennsylvania's nineteenth century carpenters combined national, cosmopolitan influences with their strong regional culture and history to produce unique architectural ornament in wood.