Final Getty Preservation Grants Go to 15 Colleges

The Getty Foundation will award preservation-planning grants to 15 colleges and universities in the last year of a high-profile program that has prompted institutions throughout academe to look more closely at their historic buildings and landscapes.

The program, Campus Heritage Grants, will have distributed $13.5-million to 86 institutions over six years when it ends. This year’s grants will go to, among others:
Moravian College, for a preservation plan for historic buildings dating back as far as 1748.
Talladega College, for a preservation plan for historic landscapes and buildings, including one built by slaves.
The State University of New York at Albany, for a preservation plan for its central campus, designed by the Modernist architect Edward Durrell Stone.
The University of Texas at Austin, for a preservation plan for its buildings by the architect Cass Gilbert.