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Cayuga Museum Announces $50,000 Matching Grant for Carriage House Theater
The Cayuga Museum announced the award of a matching grant of $49,550 from the Environmental Protection Fund for the renovation of the carriage house in the rear of the museum's property. The grant is distributed through the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
The Museum hosted a very successful theater program in this building during the 1940's through the 1960's. The organization known today as the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse began as the Auburn Children's Theater in the carriage house, when it was called the Cayuga Museum Annex. The Museum plans to return use of the ground floor of the building as an 120-seat community theater, and restore the second floor to its historic appearance as Theodore Case's experimental sound production studio.
Many of Case's test films, some of the world's first talking movies, were shot in the carriage house. The initial grant will restore the building's exterior, including the massive double carriage doors, twenty five windows, and the stairs to the second level sound studio. Work will begin in '08 under the direction of Crawford and Stearns, Preservation Architects.
For more information contact: Eileen McHugh, Executive Director, 315/ 253-8051
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