At a recent news conference, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund announced its award of $25,000 to the St. Johns Cultural Council. The grant is one of 80 given to select organizations nationwide with projects that helped preserve, interpret and activate historic places to tell the stories of underrepresented groups in the nation.
St. Johns Cultural Council’s grant will support interpretive signage and exhibits at the St. Augustine Beach Hotel and Beachfront, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places at a national level of significance for the civil rights era wade-ins that occurred there in 1964.
“The Cultural Council is excited to receive our first grant from the National Trust,” said Christina Parrish Stone, St. Johns Cultural Council’s executive director. “We look forward to working with community members to share St. Augustine Beach history with visitors to the St. Johns County Ocean Pier.”
The grant was made possible through a one-time $2.5 million grant program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
“The Telling the Full History Preservation Fund represents the largest number of grants given through a single program at the National Trust,” said Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer.
“The National Endowment for the Humanities commends the National Trust for Historic Preservation for its work in administering American Rescue Plan funds to assist historic sites, museums and preservation organizations around the country in recovering from the financial impact of the pandemic,” said National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Shelly C. Lowe.
For more information about the grant go to stjohnsculture.com. To see the full list of grantees, go to savingplaces.org/neh-telling-full-history.
