CT Humanities Awards $4,999 Quick Grant To Norwalk's Lockwood Museum

NORWALK, Conn. -- Norwalk’s Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is receiving a $4,999 Quick Grant from Connecticut Humanities to pay for an exhibit that educates the public on the mansion and honors its 50th anniversary.

The Connecticut Humanities has awarded a $4,999 Quick Grant to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in support of the new exhibit, "Demolish or Preserve: The 1960s at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion."
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Sandra Diamond Fox

05/25/2016 5:00 a.m.

The exhibition is on display in the museum’s grand entrance and library. It continues through Nov. 20.

Today, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is a National Historic Landmark, but it almost was torn down in the 1960s. The mansion is using the grant from Connecticut Humanities to pay for a multimedia exhibition exploring the history of the mansion’s rescue from demolition in 1962 and honoring the 50th anniversary of the nonprofit’s founding in 1966.

Aside from Norwalk's Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Connecticut Humanities is distributing a total of more than $16,000 in grant money to three other nonprofit organizations to support humanities-based programming.

Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, funds, creates and collaborates on hundreds of cultural programs across Connecticut each year. It administers a competitive grant pool made possible by the Connecticut General Assembly.

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Norwalk’s Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is at Mathews Park, 295 West Ave.

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