The National Park Service (NPS) last week announced $25.7 million in grants from the Save America’s Treasures (SAT) program to fund 59 projects that preserve nationally significant sites and historic collections in 26 states and the District of Columbia.

NPS partners with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services to award the grants, which are matched by nearly $50 million in private and public investments.

Friends Meeting House of Dover, New Hampshire. Photo by magicpiano, Wikimedia Commons

This year’s grant recipients include the Dover Friends Meetinghouse, a historic Quaker building dating to 1768, the last remaining 18th century meetinghouse in the entire state of New Hampshire. The two-story wood-frame structure will receive funding to stabilize and strengthen the roof system. Preserving this building will ensure that future generations will continue to meet there and understand the critical role of the Dover Friends in laying the foundations for religious freedom and nonviolent civil disobedience.

St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue in Manhattan will receive nearly $750,000 to restore portions of its famous triple portal. Designed by Stanford White, this main entrance—the defining element in the design and construction of St. Bartholomew’s Church’s new building in 1918—consists of three sets of bas-relief bronze doors and iconographic stone sculptures by famous artists of the early 20th century. The grant focuses on preserving the Cipollino marble columns, iconographic sculptures, bronze doors, and limestone steps, which have been damaged by pollution and age.

St. Bartholomew’s Church, Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Sergii Figurnyi, Shutterstock

One of Frank Furness’s most famous buildings, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, designed with George Hewitt and completed in 1876, will receive a heating and ventilation system. The building is listed as a National Historic Landmark and houses the nation’s first and oldest museum and art school, as well as one of the country’s most significant art collections. However, the current system no longer provides adequate temperature and humidity control in the galleries, art storage, and staff quarters.

Interior of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Photo by Fernando Garcia Esteban, Shutterstock

Buildings aren’t the only things that benefit from SAT grants. The National Building Museum in Washington DC received money not for its massive 1887 brick building, but for the preservation of the Northwestern Terra Cotta collection, which includes over 50,000 drawings donated to the museum by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company. The company’s draftsmen, prized by architectural greats such as Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Albert Kahn, transformed architectural blueprints into comprehensive drawings showing exactly where and how each puzzle-like piece of terra cotta would be attached to its supporting structure.

The SAT grant program was created in 1998 to recognize America’s most significant cultural resources in the new millennium. Since then, the program has awarded over $405 million from the Historic Preservation Fund to more than 1,400 projects to conduct conservation and preservation work on nationally significant collections, artifacts, structures and sites. Previous grants have gone to the restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Park Inn Hotel; the USS Intrepid, an Essex-class aircraft carrier on display in Manhattan; and the Saturn V launch vehicle, a three-stage rocket designed for a lunar landing mission.

A complete list of the latest round of SAT scholarship recipients can be found here.