2008 Grantees

MARION STEDMAN COVINGTON FOUNDATION

2008 GRANTS

Bethania Historical Association, Inc. – Bethania, NC – A $5,000 grant to support the Old Bethania School Restoration;

City of Greensboro, Department of Housing/Community Development – Greensboro, NC – A grant of $20,000 to support the Dunleath Charette;

Central Park NC – Star, NC – A grant of $30,000 to support the STARworks Center;

Community Theatre of Greensboro – Greensboro, NC – A $10,000 grant to support the due diligence study for the purchase of the Masonic Temple;

Greensboro Beautiful – Greensboro, NC – A $25,000 grant to support the participatory archaeology project at the site of the David Caldwell Log College;

International Civil Rights Museum – Greensboro, NC – A grant of $50,000 to support the renovation of the Woolworth Building;

Jones County Historical Society – Pollocksville, NC – A $5,000 challenge grant to support the publication of the Jones County Architectural History;

Junior League of Greensboro, Inc. – Greensboro, NC – A grant of $25,000 to support the renovation of the Albright House as the permanent headquarters;

Korner’s Folly Foundation – Kernersville, NC – A grant of $15,000 to support diagnostic testing;

Lloyd Presbyterian Church – Winston-Salem – A $10,000 challenge grant to support the preservation campaign;

North Carolina State University, Department of Landscape Architecture – Raleigh, NC – A $10,000 grant to support a historic preservation, landscape and townscape conservation course in the spring of 2009;

Preservation Durham- Durham, NC – A four to one $10,000 challenge grant to support Project West End;

Roanoke Island Historical Association – Manteo, NC – A $10,000 grant to provide operating support for The Lost Colony;

Swannanoa Valley Museum – Black Mountain, NC – A $7,500 grant to support renovation of the existing museum building;

Tri County Citizens Foundation – Elkin, NC – A $10,000 challenge grant to support the restoration of the Reeves Theater;

UNCG – Greensboro, NC – A grant of $10,000 to support the Gail Hicks Fripp Museum Studies Internship;

Wadsworth Historical Restoration Society – Sedalia, NC – A grant of $10,000 to  support church restoration.