Floyd County
Main Floor Rehabilitation of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt Home
The National 19th Amendment Society
Charles City
$19,882
This project will rehabilitate the interior of the first floor of the childhood home of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, built in rural Floyd County in 1866. Includes electrical rewiring, an ADA-accessible bathroom, insulation, drywall and paint for the main floor. Existing window trim and most woodwork will be refinished, and one large window will be replicated.

Fremont County
Todd Paper Project
Tabor Historical Society
Tabor
$1,500
Grant money will be used to provide appropriate archival storage materials and technical assistance in preserving the Todd Papers, a collection of more than 1,850 letters, sermons, manuscripts and other miscellaneous documents of the Reverend John Todd and others. The Reverend John Todd was one of Iowa's best known abolitionists and deeply involved in the Kansas Free State Movement and Jim Lane Trail, important historical events of the 1850s.

Hardin County
Slayton Farms Round Barn-Roof Rehabilitation
Hardin County Historic Preservation Commission
Iowa Falls
$30,000
Funds will provide weather-tight protection for this Slayton Farms Round Barn (1914-15), a "true Iowa" round barn made of clay tile.

Henry County
HVAC for the Harlan-Lincoln House
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
$12,694
This project will install a new HVAC system for temperature and humidity control. James Harlan was the first Republican senator from Iowa and later served as the Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln. His daughter, Mary, married Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of the President to survive into adulthood.

Howard County
Project Borlaug Legacy
Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation
Cresco
$4,379
The country school in this project was attended by Dr. Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in plant science to alleviate world hunger. Project includes the removal of the metal roof and replacement with wooden shingles, mending of the chimney, repairing the siding, windows and door, backfilling to cover a modern skirt, constructing a handicapped-accessible ramp, and rebuilding the inside wall separating the cloakroom from the schoolroom.

Iowa County
Photograph Care and Management
Amana Heritage Society
Amana
$4,900
Grant funds will make it possible to develop a cataloguing system and create a computer database to record information about images in the photographic collection of the Amana Heritage Society's Museum of Amana History. Prints will be made of selected black & white negatives to provide access for researchers. Photos will also be stored in appropriate archival materials.

Johnson County
Research and Conservation of Ad Curtain from One-Room Schoolhouse
Johnson County Historical Society/Heritage Museum
Coralville
$3,446
This project involves the research and conservation of the stage curtain used in Scott #3 (Old Railroad School) in Johnson County, believed to be made between 1932 and 1939 judging by some of the business advertisements painted on it.

Learning and Teaching in a One-Room Country School: A Hands-On Project
Kalona Historical Society
Kalona
$2,175
For six days in October 2002, students at the Washington Township Elementary School will be redistributed so each classroom will include students from all ages represented in the school. During this time, each classroom will resemble the mix found in one-room country schools. The teacher will instruct classes with all age groups at Center High, an authentic country school. Students will experience the social, physical, and educational setting of a one-room schoolhouse.

Laysan Island Cyclorama Conservation Assessment
University of Iowa
Iowa City
$4,900
This project will bring together two professional conservators to the Museum to assess the condition of the Laysan Island Cyclorama, recommend a treatment plan to restore the exhibit to its original condition and propose conservation measures to mitigate future deterioration. The Laysan Island Cyclorama is a 12-ft. high, 138-ft. long mural blending almost seamlessly with the foreground of the exhibit, virtually surrounding the visitor.

Kossuth County
Replicate Urns, Restore Terra Cotta and Complete the Interior Restoration of Building
Sullivan Building Foundation, Inc.
Algona
$4,900
Projects included in this grant are: replication of the large terra cotta urns and pier caps; restoration of the weathered terra cotta blocks on the building's exterior; replication of the original stencil design on the ceiling; and reinterpretation of the remaining rear portion of the interior to its original design. The Adams Land and Loan Office in Algona is the third in a series of eight rural, Midwestern banks designed by the world famous architect Louis Sullivan.

Linn County
Stoney Point School
Laurie Church
Cedar Rapids
$5,000
Stoney Point School was built in 1879 and used until 1959. The project for the Stoney Point School is to rejuvenate the curb appeal, stabilize the bell tower, remove lead-based paint and repaint. Broken panes will be replaced and existing windows will be repaired and caulked to deter further deterioration.

Re-Interpreting the 19th Century Immigrant House
National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library
Cedar Rapids
$5,250
A consultant in Cedar Rapids will be employed to research and develop a plan for more accurate interpretation of the interior of the Immigrant House and to perform paint analysis of the exterior of the home. The consultant will also recommend appropriate wall and woodwork finishes, floor coverings, window treatments, kitchen implements and furniture, and their correct placement within the house.

Updating Computer Access to The History Center Collections Records, Phase I
The History Center of the Linn County Historical Society
Cedar Rapids
$10,300
This project will update the computer software and hardware used to document The History Center's collections; provide community access to the database; provide a temporary data entry operator to update entries of storage locations for artifacts within the building as required for accreditation; proofread the existing database when it is converted; and implement a plan to digitize images of 500 artifacts from the collection.

Preservation of Four Sets of Ethnic Materials
Czech and Slovak Museum & Library
Cedar Rapids
$2,739
The historical resources in this grant project are four distinct sets of library materials representing Iowa's strong Czech heritage. They include: Czech-language religious broadcasts recorded on reel-to-reel tapes; the Ludvik Burian photograph album; the Czech and Slovak Legions photograph album; and books and bound periodicals. Each one of these formats will be preserved and conserved.

Louisa County
Bethel Church Window Restoration
Bethel Cemetery Association, Inc.
Wapello
$7,270
Bethel Church is a natural stone, Greek Revival building constructed in 1855, replacing a log cabin built by the settlers to continue the Methodist evangelical movement, embraced in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The restoration of the six nine-over-six windows and the transom above the double entry doors will return the church to its original appearance.

Lyon County
Depot Museum Painting Project
The Lyon County Historical Society
Rock Rapids
$4,725
Grant funds will cover the cost of repairing, preparing and re-painting the exterior of the depot, built in 1886 to serve the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad (later renamed the Rock Island and Pacific in 1903). It is now used as a museum, containing items of historical interest, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Madison County
Probate Record Preparation of Microfilming
Madison County Genealogical Society
Winterset
$3,892
This grant project includes the preparation of 5,900 individual packets for microfilming by the Utah Genealogical Society. These documents are important as primary source material to genealogists, social geographers, historians and attorneys in answering questions of a divergent and complex nature.

Mills County
Mills County Records Microfilming
Mills County Board of Supervisors
Glenwood
$8,000
Records in the Mills County Courthouse contain valuable data, including abstracts, deeds, mortgages, easements, and records of birth, deaths, marriages, adoptions, plus affidavits, military discharges and transfers, and numerous other. This grant will pay to microfilm the most fragile of these resources.

Polk County
Archiving Terrace Hill History
Terrace Hill Society
Des Moines
$700
This grant will pay for the purchase of appropriate archival storage materials for a collection of more than 3,000 items used primarily to provide interpretation and illustration to individuals who come to tour Terrace Hill.

East High School Yearbook Project
Karon S. Polyard
Des Moines
$6,880
The objectives of this grant are to collect and preserve East High School yearbooks and to provide access to this pictorial resource for community and family history and genealogy. With this grant, a complete set as possible of all volumes of East High School's QUILL will be collected and preserve through digital scanning and microfilming.

Soul City, A Documentary of Historic River Bend
Jeffrey Campbell/Joanna Louise Johnson
Des Moines
$15,000
The Soul City Documentary Project will provide a historical/social commentary of the integration in River Bend from the perspective of four generations.

Scott County
Collections Documentation Security
Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science
Davenport
$2,600
Grant funds will permit purchasing four fireproof filing cabinets for the museum's collection records. The collection records serve as the primary source of information about the objects, photographs and archival material currently in the collection.

East Hill Carriage House
Caroline Bawden
Riverdale
$16,798
This project will re-roof the carriage house and repoint the masonry chimney of this two-story Georgian Revival carriage house built in 1926 and designed by Chicago architect, Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926).

Shelby County
Interpreting Elk Horn's Danish Immigrant History, Culture, and Danish Windmill
Danish Mill Corporation
Elk Horn
$15,000
This project is a set of exhibits to interpret the history of Danish immigration to the United State and Elk Horn, as well as the history of Elk Horn and the history and operation of the Danish Windmill.

1901 Baughn Building
Jeron Henscheid
Harlan
$8,000
This building is important because it is one of the first buildings erected on the east side of the square after the disastrous fire of 1899 wiped out all of the wooden structures. In the early 1960s, the Baughn Building was modernized by taking out the eight original 1901 windows and filling in the space with brick and smaller single pane aluminum windows. This project will remove the brick and downsized windows and replace them with historically correct, energy-efficient customized windows in the same proportions as the originals.

Story County
Microfilming Preservation of the Old Historic Maxwell Tribune Newspapers
The Community Historical Society
Maxwell
$2,500
The historical resource in this project is a collection of Maxwell Tribune newspapers from 1884 to 1972. These records are an important source of information for this area's development, business and social histories. Grant monies will be used to microfilm 5,616 pages of the Maxwell Tribune.

Taylor County
Taylor County Museum Country Schoolhouse Project
Taylor County Historical Society Museum
Bedford
$5,000
The grant project will remove fungus-infested siding and trim, scrape and caulk all windows, and install plywood boxing and vapor barrier, and new siding and trim. The final step will be priming and painting the exterior of the schoolhouse with quality, oil-based paint.

Van Buren County
Structural Repair and Façade Restoration of Hancock House
Herbert G. Shafer
Bentonsport
$19,450
The project will introduce drainage tile to the north, replace rotted sills and old replacement concrete with new white oak beams, repair foundation mortar joints, replace hazardous wiring, remove the modern bay window, and repair or reconstruct the 13 six-over-six pane windows. Louvered wooden window shutters will be reintroduced, and sidelights and transoms will be restored.

Wayne County
Interpretive Exhibits on the 20th Century History of Wayne County
Wayne County Historical Society
Corydon
$15,000
The Wayne County Historical Society will develop and install exhibits about the political, economic, social, cultural and religious life of Wayne County and south-central Iowa during the 20th century.

Webster County
Gathering, Organizing and Preserving YWCA of Fort Dodge and Vincent House History
YWCA of Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge
$4,500
This project will help prepare newspaper clippings, photographs, journals, scrapbooks and hard copies of board meeting action for long-term preservation, additional research and public display; gather additional information; and provide an accurate history for use in public presentations locally, area-wide and on a national level.

Winnebago County
Refurbish Sherman Tank
Winnebago Historical Society
Forest City
$2,725
The grant project consists of stripping the paint on the tank down to bare metal. The application of two coats of primer and two coats of army green paint will complete the project. The tank was donated by the Iowa Army National Guard to the people of Winnebago County who served in the U.S. armed forces.

Winneshiek County
Fort Atkinson Cultural Resources, Research and Education
Department of Natural Resources
Fort Atkinson
$20,984
This project includes a Cultural Resources Field School scheduled for June 2003 in the Fort Atkinson area. Field School students will include primary and secondary teachers, college students, county conservation board personnel, preserves managers, members of local and state historical and archaeological organizations, and adult learners among the general public. Students will be introduced by professionals to appropriate research techniques in a hands-on approach.