{"id":303085,"date":"2026-07-22T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:19:10","slug":"old-stone-house-awarded-4-million-for-battle-of-brooklyn-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303085\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Stone House awarded $4 million for Battle of Brooklyn exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARK SLOPE \u2014 THE OLD STONE HOUSE on Third Street has been awarded a grant of almost $4 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/news\/neh-announces-414-million-81-humanities-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a>, as part of a package that supports educational, public and scholarly programs enhancing the United States\u2019 250th birthday. The NEH on Wednesday announced a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-07\/NEH%20grant%20awards%20state%20by%20state%20July%202026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">$41.4 million grants<\/a> for 81 humanities projects across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Several of these grants will support programs designed to enhance ongoing national celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence\u2019s signing. NEH funding for these projects responds to the Jan. 29, 2025, Presidential Executive Order \u201cCelebrating America\u2019s Birthday,\u201d and is part of the agency\u2019s larger A More Perfect Union initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Stone House of Brooklyn is awarded more than $3.97 million of which it will receive outright funding of $60,000, for its project, \u201cOld Stone House: Witness to War\u2014The Battle of Brooklyn.\u201d The grant will underwrite plans for an expansion and update of a permanent exhibition on the Battle of Brooklyn, including the development of accompanying online interactive materials. Kimberly Maier is the project director.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/theoldstonehouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Old Stone House\u2019s website<\/a> has announced this year\u2019s Battle of Brooklyn commemoration for Sunday, Aug. 22. This strategic battle took place on Aug. 27, 1776.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARK SLOPE \u2014 THE OLD STONE HOUSE on Third Street has been awarded a grant of almost $4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,109534,9,24,5325,63,87483],"class_list":["post-303085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fourth-of-july-independence-day-july-fourth-4th-of-july-july-4th","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-paywall","tag-nyc","tag-old-stone-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}