The Middleton Place Foundation received a $650,997 Save America's Treasures grant, administered by the National Park Service, to stabilize and preserve the Spring House built around 1741 and the 1850 chapel above it. The roughly $1.3 million project requires a dollar-for-dollar non-federal match the foundation is still raising.
Why this matters here
Middleton Place draws more than 100,000 visitors a year, and those visitors eat, shop, and sleep at Lowcountry businesses, so keeping its buildings open matters well past the front gate. The matching requirement is also a useful reminder that federal preservation money almost always needs local dollars behind it.
First reported by postandcourier.com.
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