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The Historic Bethlehem<\/a> Museums & Sites has received a significant boost to its efforts to restore historical sites in the city as it prepares for the increased tourism it expects from being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The organization was\u00a0recently\u00a0awarded $75,000 to support the restoration of the historic 18th-century Tannery\u00a0located\u00a0in Bethlehem\u2019s Colonial Industrial Quarter<\/a>. The grant, secured by State Rep. Steve\u00a0Samuelson,\u00a0through the state\u2019s Local Share Account grants program.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The funds are in addition to the $63,600 it received from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission through its Keystone Historic Preservation Construction Grants program.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe 1761 Tannery has been closed to public tours for over a decade,\u201d said Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites President & CEO\u00a0LoriAnn\u00a0Wukitsch. \u201cThanks to the support of Rep. Samuelson and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, HBMS now has the funding necessary to kick off the next phase of restoration work necessary to reopen this historic treasure to our community. This project is especially important since it coincides with the development of the adjacent Overlook on History<\/a>, the enclosed glass and steel connector that will join the Luckenbach Mill and Grist Miller\u2019s House when it opens this\u00a0fall.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Built in 1761, the Tannery was essential to Bethlehem\u2019s early Moravian community, with craftsmen transforming approximately 3,000 hides per year into leather goods such as shoes, boots,\u00a0saddles\u00a0and harnesses.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The upcoming Tannery revitalization project will involve both stabilization work and restoration of the building to prepare it for public use and educational programming. When the building reopens, it will become an integral part of HBMS programming, including Birthplace of Industry tours, new Maker\u2019s Retreats, student\u00a0programs\u00a0and Community Heritage Day in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article The Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites has received a significant boost to its efforts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,57065,57070],"class_list":["post-217505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-colonial-industrial-quarter","tag-overlook-on-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}