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 NCA Grants
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The NCA Preservation Fund was established in 1988 to insure that today's carousels will be available for future generations. Every year a number of carousels benefit from our grant program. The NCA Preservation Program has assisted with mechanical repairs, carousel and building refurbishment, repaint, and even new horse tails.
Information about applying for a grant is Available Here.
Our grant program is now 22 years old. Please take a minute to look through this list of grants distributed by the NCA in just the last decade. It's quite likely that you've ridden one of these carousels or visited one of the locations that our grant money has helped to keep in operation.
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The National Carousel Association
- Preserving the Past
- Maintaining the Present
- Ensuring the Future
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2010
- Mitchell Park - Greenport, NY
Northrop-Grumman Carousel
1920 3-Row Herschell-Spillman
Funds were granted to the Greenport carousel for lighting restoration.
- Benkelman Park - Benkelman, NE
1942 3-Row Allan Herschell
The NCA provided a matching grant to begin restoration of a 1942 Allan Herschell half and half carousel (the horses are half wood and half metal).
- Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum - North Tonawanda, NY
1916 3-Row Allan Herschell #1 Special
A grant from the NCA helped to restore three horses on this carousel.
- The Farmers’ Museum - Cooperstown, NY
Empire State Carousel
1940's 3-Row Allan Herschell/New Carvings
The Empire State Carousel used their grant from the NCA to purchase a horse that was original to their carousel, which is otherwise populated with newly carved figures.
- Meadowlake Park - Enid, OK
Meadowlake Park Carousel
1925 3-Row Allan Herschell
This carousel received a matching grant from the NCA to restore and replace missing figures on a half and half (half wood, half metal) carousel.
- Camp Aldersgate - Little Rock, AR
1940's 3-Row Allan Herschell
This grant was used to assist in repainting the figures on this newly gifted carousel.
2009
- C.W. Parker Carousel Museum - Leavenworth, KS
Classic
1913 2-Row Parker #118
The C.W. Parker Carousel Museum used this grant for nylon greaseless bearings between the horse hooks and the crankshafts to reduce wear and squeaking on this carousel.
- Fireman's Park - Waterloo, WI
Waterloo Carousel
1911 2-Row Parker #53
This grant was used in conjunction with matching funds from FEMA to move the carousel out of a flood plain and to refurbish water-damaged wooden horses.
- Three Rivers Carousel - Tri-Cities, WA
1910 3-Row Mangels-Carmel
The Three Rivers carousel used their proceeds to restore two chariots, one carved by Charles Carmel and one carved by M.C. Illions, and to convert them to be handicapped accessible.
- Ferry County Fair Park - Republic, WA
Ferry County Merry-Go-Round
c.1895-1900 2-Row Armitage-Herschell
This grant was matched with local funds, and was used to strip, repair, and paint two horses and touch up 21 others, and to sand and refinish the platform.
- Sanitarium Playgrounds of NJ - Thorofare, NJ
1900 4-Row Frederick Heyn
The leather stirrup straps were replaced with this grant.
2008
- Chahinkapa Zoo - Wahpeton, ND
Prairie Rose Carousel
1926 2-Row Spillman Engineering
The grant funded to the Prairie Rose Carousel was used toward the restoration of the paintings on the rounding boards.
- Crossroads Village - Flint, MI
1912 3-Row Parker
Grant for the restoration of "National Velvet" and other horses on this C.W. Parker carry-us-all.
- Jefferson County Fairgrounds - Boulder, MT
Boulder River Carousel
1958 3-Row Brill
This grant funded the replacement of wooden rounding board elements on this 1958 hand-cast carousel.
2007
- C.W. Parker Carousel Museum - Leavenworth, KS
Classic
1913 2-Row Parker #118
Emergency repairs were completed on the carousel and band organ mechanism with this grant.
- Oaks Amusement Park - Portland, OR
1911? 3-Row Herschell-Spillman menagerie
This menagerie carousel received the Bollinger Award grant for restoration of the machine.
- The Carousel of Happiness - Nederland, CO
1910 2-Row Looff Frame/New Carvings
The Carousel of Happiness received this grant for restoration of the original paintings on its rounding boards. The rounding boards came from a 1910 Dolle-Carmel carousel that originally operated in Silver Beach, Michigan.
2006
- Eldridge Park - Elmira, NY
3-Row Orig Frame/New Figures
The grant to Eldridge Park was used for restoration of one of the two Looff figures original to the machine. Other figures on this machine are newly carved.
- Wilhelmsbad Karussell - Hanau, Germany
1780 building and mechanism with 1896 Friedrich Heyn/Carl Mueller figures
Matching funds were made available for the restoration of this historically significant German carousel.
- New Orleans City Park - New Orleans, LA
1906 3-Row Bartholomew Murphy
This special emergency grant was made available to the New Orleans carousel to repair the carousel's platform following damage by hurricane Katrina.
- Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum - North Tonawanda, NY
1916 3-Row Allan Herschell #1 Special
This grant was used to purchase the original lead horse, King, to complete this historical carousel. The grant was made in the name of our good friend and long-time editor of the Merry-Go-Roundup, Cyndy Hanks.
- The Carousel of Happiness - Nederland, CO
1910 2-Row Looff Frame/New Carvings
A grant was made to contribute to the restoration of the original 1910 Looff mechanism.
- Paragon Carousel - Hull, MA
1928 4-Row PTC #85
Emergency repairs were completed on the mechanism with this grant.
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