{"id":16749,"date":"2017-03-22T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=16749"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:18:42","slug":"history-grants-go-to-adams-hotel-other-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/03\/history-grants-go-to-adams-hotel-other-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"History grants go to Adams Hotel, other projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friends of the Historic Adams Hotel in Lavina was among 28 projects and organizations to receive grants this year from the Montana History Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Montana History Foundation announced the awarding of grants totaling $117,000 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Our grant recipients are new and unique every year,\u201d MHF President and CEO Charlene Porsild said in a press release. \u201cWe are so proud to support projects from Libby to Ekalaka and all points in between this year ranging from interpretive signage of outdoor exhibits to curation of dinosaur fossils to restoration work on a log cabin or an historic hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

One “standout” recipient, the release continued, is the Crow Language Consortium Dictionary Project in Hardin, whose goal is design, review and publish\u00a0the first professionally produced Crow dictionary.<\/p>\n

The Crow language is classified as “definitely endangered,” the foundation said, with a 60 percent decline in school-age speakers of Crow between 1969 and 2002. That project was awarded $5,000 by the Helena-based foundation.<\/p>\n

Other $5,000 recipients include the historic Adams Hotel in Lavina and the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, whose annual “Dino Shindig” was named the Event of the Year<\/a> during last week’s Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Recreation.<\/p>\n

\"CapreAir_Variable\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>“It is our mission to support projects large and small,” Porsild said. “And this year’s winners really reflect the quality of preservation work being accomplished across the state.”<\/p>\n

The Montana History Foundation, established in 1985, is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that works to preserve the legacy of Montana’s past. Here’s a complete list of winning projects:<\/p>\n

Billings region<\/h5>\n

\u2666 Friends of the Historic Adams Hotel, Lavina, Golden Valley County, $5,000 for repairs to the foundation and basement, plus the work of a structural engineer.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Lewistown Historic Resources Commission, Fergus County, $3,000 for the preservation of Lewistown cemeteries, mausoleums and gravestones.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, $5,000 for rehousing museum collections.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Upper Musselshell Museum, Harlowton, Wheatland County, $1,080 for military clothing protection and photo media supplies.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Western Heritage Center, Billings, Yellowstone County, $850 for photograph collections.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Billings Preservation Society Inc.\/Moss Mansion Museum, Billings, $5,000 for Moss Mansion Museum research and development new self-guided tours.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Crow Language Consortium, Hardin, Big Horn County, $5,000 for Crow Dictionary project.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Montana<\/h5>\n

\u2666 Belt Theater Company, Cascade County, $5,000 for replacing the theater’s rear pedestrian bridge to Butte Street.<\/p>\n

\u2666 C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Cascade County, $5,000 for the Charles M. Russell House conservation project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 City of Livingston, Park County, $5,000 for Livingston Commercial Historic District survey project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Friends of the Elkhorn Water Tank, Jefferson County, $5,000 for restoration of the water tank.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Helmville Community Club, Powell County, $5,000 for restoration of the Helmville Grandstand.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, Flathead County, $1,750 for trim and architrave restoration.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Lincoln School Foundation, Park County, $5,000 for window replacement.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana, Charlo, Lake County, $5,000 for Jacko Valley Cabin project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 North Central Montana Retired Educators Association, Great Falls, Zion School paint and restoration project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Plains Woman’s Club, Sanders County, $4,000 for Old Log Schoolhouse roof replacement and building stabilization.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Sun River Valley Historical Society, Fort Show, Cascade County, $5,000 for adobe wall repair.<\/p>\n

\u2666 The Original Montana club, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, $5,000 for stained-glass window restoration.<\/p>\n

\u2666 City of Helena, $750 for preserving Helena City Council minute books.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Montana Heritage Commission, Nevada City, Madison County, $5,000 for restoring Nevada City music machine.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Paradise Elementary School Preservation Committee, Paradise, Sanders County, $5,000 for book project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Ravalli County Museum & Historical Society, Hamilton, $4,000 collections care project.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Yellowstone Gateway Museum of Park County, Livingston, $5,000 for railroad collection, cataloging and archival storage.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, $1,000 for “A Walk Through Butte in 100 Objects.”<\/p>\n

\u2666 MSU Library, White Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, $5,000 for “The History of Weather in Doig country: Tying Regional interviews to Place-Based Literature.”<\/p>\n

\u2666 Sanders County Community Development Corp., Thompson Falls, $750 for interpretive signs on Thompson Falls Community Trail.<\/p>\n

\u2666 The Heritage Museum, Libby, Lincoln County, $5,000 for outsdoor signs and interpretive displays at the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Montana History Foundation announced the awarding of grants totaling $117,000 on Wednesday. “Our grant recipients are new and unique every year,\u201d MHF President and CEO Charlene Porsild said in a press release. \u201cWe are so proud to support projects from Libby to Ekalaka and all points in between this year ranging from interpretive signage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":16750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[5663,2981,5664,5662],"class_list":["post-16749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-montana","tag-adams-hotel","tag-carter-county-museum","tag-crow-language-dictionary","tag-montana-history-foundation","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16754,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/16754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}