| CH-50619-09 | Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants | Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation | President Calvin Coolidge Museum and Education Center | 12/1/2007 - 7/31/2013 | $330,000.00 | Matthew | | Denhart | | | | Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation | Plymouth | VT | 05056-0097 | USA | 2008 | U.S. History | Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 330000 | 0 | 330000 | 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. |