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The Oldham County Historical Society 106 North Second Avenue
La Grange, KY 40031
Phone: (502) 222-0826
Fax: (502) 222-7115
Email: ochstryctr@aol.com

Conservation Assessment Award

The Oldham County History Center has received a $7,000 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) award from Heritage Preservation for professional conservators to visit the museum and assess the museum’s collections. “This is a great opportunity for us because we are currently renovating our collections and archives area” according to Dr. Nancy Theiss, Executive Director. To date the museum has raised $30,000 toward the renovation of the archives which will include setting aside an area for documents, records and photographs that will be double fire walled and include a powdered sprinkler system. “Currently”, according to Theiss, “the archives have a water sprinkler system, humidity controls and security but we decided that one area could use the benefit of a powder dry sprinkler, particularly for our paper documents and photographs.”

Collections include topics such as the Kentucky State Reformatory, Louise Head Duncan, Hermitage Farm, Weller and Mount Civil War letters, Oldham County courthouse documents, Annie Fellows Johnston, Rob Morris, David Wark Griffith, Barnett Whiskey Jugs, Bennett Tools, LaGrange City Minutes, Church histories, town records, oral histories, regional oil paintings and many other items of local heritage.

Architect Ronald Stiller from Floyd’s Knob, Ind. and Collection Assessor Jennifer Hein from Indianapolis will visit the museum August 10 & 11 to survey the site and then will follow up with a comprehensive report to identify conservation priorities for the Oldham County History Center. “We have a committee of volunteers and Board members that will meet with the assessor team to assist with the survey,” according to Theiss.

Heritage Preservation’s President, Lawrence L. Reger, praised the Oldham County History Center for “making the vital work of caring for collections and sites a priority of their institution…to insure that they are available to present and future generations.”

Heritage Preservation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the United States. Heritage preservation assists museums, libraries, archives and other organizations in caring for our endangered heritage. In 2006 the Oldham County History Center received a Museum Assessment Program (MAP) award from Heritage Preservation that assessed the museum’s overall performance and standards. The MAP assessment gave the museum high ratings for performance and operations when compared to other museums across the United States of like size and operation.