Friends of Dreamland awarded preservation grant from the National Parks Service.

The National Parks Service (NPS) has awarded $14 million in African American Civil Right Historic Preservation Funds granted to worthy causes all over the United States. In December, Friends of Dreamland (FOD) applied for these funds and earlier this month, we were awarded $499,723.00 to continue the access project to the Dreamland Ballroom started in 2017. This time, FOD will be able to complete the installation of the elevator inside the recently construction addition, install HVAC system, repair and replace windows, and add an ADA compliant bathroom to the third floor ballroom. This will complete the Dreamland Ballroom Public Access Project. Making the 101 year old ballroom accessible to everyone and usable year round.

Read the full press release from the NPS here, contain all the locations awarded funding this year: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/04-06-2020-nps-announces-african-american-civil-rights-grants.htm

Read the press release by one of FOD’s biggest supporters, Congressmen French Hill: https://hill.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6927