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SINCERE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS 


As always, our many thanks go out to you, our supporters and volunteers. Over the past 30 years, Ketcham Inn Foundation has developed an exceptional working relationship with municipal agencies, and public/private funding sources. Our partners in preservation and restoration extend beyond the following list:


New York Community Trust, Long Island Community Foundation

  • Discretionary funds for general support

New York State Office of Parks and Recreation and Historic Preservation 

  • Acquisition of historic site through an EQBA grant (81 Main St, Center Moriches)
  • Continuing restoration through EPF grants
  • 2020, New York State Historic Preservation Award to Bertram E. Seides for the Mary E. Bell House Restoration

Dahlquist Foundation, Inc.

  • Grants for required restoration c. 1693

Suffolk County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation

  • Grant for educational material, educational coloring book depicting colonial life
  • Grant for transcribing and printing 1923 diary of three Ketcham women vacationing at Forge River Life Saving Station
  • Grant for building materials

Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Inc.

  • Significant funds granted for the completion of the interior of the Inn
  • Provided funds for the development of Historic Cooking Program
  • Grant for acquisition of four Havens-Pelletreau letters
  • Matching grant for repair of Havens Homestead roof
  • Funded Digital Tapestry project

Gerry Charitable Trust Fund

  • Grants secured for the completion of required building fabric

Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society

  • 2001 Robert H. Pelletreau Distinguished Service Award to Bertram E. Seides in Historic Preservation for meritorious efforts in historic preservation

Preservation Long Island

  • 2002 Howard C. Sherwood Award to Bertram E. Seides for saving the Ketcham Inn in Center Moriches, creating historic districts and advocating historic preservation on the South Shore

Other Corporate Sponsors

Attorneys

  • E. Anne Hayes, Attorney at Law
  • Tara A. Kavanagh, Attorney at Law
  • Thomas Morgan Cardoza, ESQ

As always, our many thanks go out to you, our supporters and volunteers. We appreciate all your efforts. If you, a family member, or friend has time to spare and would enjoy helping us keep our goals of sustaining the Inn as a House Museum and Cultural Center, call 631-878-1855, email [email protected] or stop by. Volunteers to act as docents, colonial artisans, musicians, and help at the Book Barn, Museum Shop and our gardens.