Lindenhurst Historical Society Receives Conservation Supplies Grant

LINDENHURST, NY — The Lindenhurst Historical Society, which is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee anniversary, has received a $700 grant to help it preserve and protect its collection of historical objects, artworks and artifacts.

The money is coming from the New York State Council on the Arts/Greater Hudson Heritage Network, which has a grant program for preservation supplies in addition to its conservation treatment grant program, which provided the LHS last year with money to preserve the velocipede in its collection.

Plus, the society received additional funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

The LHS was founded in 1948 by residents who imagined not only a vibrant and robust society of like-minded, community-oriented visionaries who would foster the group's mission to preserve and celebrate the community’s rich and diverse history, but also who would continually seek and develop opportunities to conserve and protect the community’s historically valuable sites as well.

This latest grant gives the society an additional resource to support its conservation and preservation plan by using proper collection management supplies to protect the collection.

"I’m happy about the box for a few reasons," Lindenhurst Village Museum Director Marianne Guglieri told Patch. "We received it as part of a grant along with many other archival supplies. It is an archival box used to store antique and vintage items. They are very expensive and to get them through a grant is wonderful. These items need to be stored correctly so we can keep them from degrading."

Village Historian Anna Jaeger said the village and the historical society are united in a shared vision to preserve Lindenhurst's history. She noted the partnership has in three instances protected buildings relevant to Lindenhurst’s founding and subsequent development as the fourth-largest village in New York.

The buildings are not only historically valuable in their own right; but also as museums they provide intrinsic and germane exhibit space along with much-needed storage for the Society’s collections of historical items.

The historical society operates the Lindenhurst Historical House Museum, the 1901 Restored Long Island Railroad Depot and Freight House Museum and The Old Village Hall Museum. Currently, the Historical House Museum and the Old Village Hall Museum are undergoing renovations, suspending museum exhibits and activities until the summer of 2024. The train museum is closed for the season.

The pause has allowed the Society to concentrate on conserving its collections, officials said. This Preservation Supplies Award contributes to that effort.

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