Society For The Preservation Of Long Island Antiquities Inc

Splia provides educational and advisory services to help local groups advance preservation advocacy initiatives in their own communities. The society continued to work with various preservation partners through its endangered historic places and awards programs, and continued to offer virtual educational programs in related subject areas. Splia provided ongoing advisory, support, and educational services throughout the year via one-on-one consultations, letters to government officials, attendance at municipal public meetings, and presentations to local civic and preservation organizations as well as public libraries. Additionally, the organization created several online lecture programs and discussions. Its professional staff also made several presentations for programs at other cultural institutions.

Splia maintains and interprets representative collections of furniture and decorative arts, period photographs and paintings, every-day household objects and various archival materials for research, educational, and exhibition purposes. To showcase these collections while advancing the value of preserving material culture, splia creates exhibitions and publications that relate to long island history. During the fiscal year, splia continued its inventory work by completing a full inventory reconciliation across all properties and collections storage facilities. Regarding exhibitions, splia was chosen as the inaugural site for a smithsonian traveling exhibition in new york. Items from splia's collection were showcased alongside this exhibition, elevating local history to national significance. Splia also completed the final phase of its art of edward lange book project, seeing through final stages of editing and design for publication.

Various program service grants: expenditures: curatorial aquisition grants 26,444 general grants 58,593 publication grants 13,905 exhibits/events grants 9,256 historic house grants 22,094 total 130,292