PA-23609-00 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Preservation Consultation to Plan Collections Storage | 9/1/2000 - 1/31/2001 | $3,940.00 | Katherine | | Kane | | | | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Hartford | CT | 06105-3243 | USA | 2000 | Archival Management and Conservation | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 3940 | 0 | 3940 | 0 | A preservation assessment of art, photographic, ceramic, textile, and furniture collections of 19th-century Connecticut. |
PA-50856-04 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Preserving the Harriet Beecher Stowe Collections | 7/1/2004 - 6/30/2011 | $400,000.00 | Katherine | | Kane | | | | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Hartford | CT | 06105-3243 | USA | 2004 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 300000 | 100000 | 300000 | 100000 | The installation of climate control and fire suppression systems to preserve the material culture, library and archival collections that are stored and displayed in the historic houses relating to the life of Harriett Beecher Stowe, her family, and American society in the 19th century. |
PF-50212-11 | Preservation and Access: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Preserving Collections in the 1871 Harriet Beecher Stowe House | 9/1/2011 - 12/31/2016 | $335,000.00 | Katherine | | Kane | | | | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center | Hartford | CT | 06105-3243 | USA | 2011 | Museum Studies or Historical Preservation | Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections | Preservation and Access | 235000 | 100000 | 235000 | 100000 | An implementation project to improve conditions in the 1871 Harriet Beecher Stowe House where household furnishings, paintings, drawings, and decorative art items created or acquired by Stowe are exhibited and stored. A water mist fire suppression system would be installed, the thermal performance of the building envelope would be improved, climate control would be upgraded and extended throughout the house, and light control strategies would be implemented.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (HBSC) seeks implementation funding in the amount of $400,000 for Phase II of a multiyear project to protect the Stowe Center’s nationally significant collections. This request is for environmental and climate control improvements and fire suppression in the 1871 Harriet Beecher Stowe House, replacing outdated and minimally functional equipment, conditioning spaces that have never been conditioned and adding fire suppression. HBSC successfully completed Phase I, the Library/Archives Storage Vault, and that experienced team of staff and consultants will conduct Phase II. Improving environmental conditions in the Stowe House is the highest institutional preservation and strategic priority. |