The Costs & Proposed Funding Plan
Your Help Can Make The Difference!
The new educational and interpretive complex is an ambitious endeavor, but with your help we can achieve our vision. When completed, it will be a valuable resource not only for the people of Lancaster, but also for visitors from throughout the state and nation. The story it tells of America's journey toward freedom and equality for all of its citizens underlines the uniqueness of the American dream. The two people's lives it highlights remind us that committed individuals can help make that dream come true. At a time when the country still struggles with issues of equality and equity, this lesson is a vital one. Please help us to insure that people have the opportunity to learn from the unity and hope illustrated in the lives of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith.
The new educational and interpretive complex is an ambitious endeavor, but with your help we can achieve our vision. When completed, it will be a valuable resource not only for the people of Lancaster, but also for visitors from throughout the state and nation. The story it tells of America's journey toward freedom and equality for all of its citizens underlines the uniqueness of the American dream. The two people's lives it highlights remind us that committed individuals can help make that dream come true. At a time when the country still struggles with issues of equality and equity, this lesson is a vital one. Please help us to insure that people have the opportunity to learn from the unity and hope illustrated in the lives of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith.
Costs
| Construction, restoration and exhibit facilities | $17,000,000 |
| Operating expense subsidy for first two years (including marketing and promotion campaign) |
$500,000 |
| Operating endowment | $500,000 |
| Total | $18,000,000 |
Proposed Funding Plan
| Pennsylvania Governor's Capital Budget Fund Note: These funds, while approved, cannot be released until matching funds are available. |
$3,000,000 |
| Federal Funding | $7,000,000 |
| Local Capital Campaign | $4,000,000 |
| Regional and National Capital Campaign | $4,000,000 |
| Total | $18,000,000 |
The Thaddeus Stevens & Smith Historic Project is of the utmost importance for Lancaster. Stevens, one of Lancaster's most noteworthy citizens, has long been neglected, and it is great that this prescient advocate of racial equality is finally being recognized, to say nothing of his great Afro-American friend, Mrs. Lydia Hamilton Smith, whom he always treated with the greatest respect.
- Dr. Hans L. Trefousse, distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
- Dr. Hans L. Trefousse, distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
