BOSTON – Governor Healey’s office announced on Monday, Aug. 26, that the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism’s Destination Development Capital (DDC) grant program issued grants to 61 organizations across the state. DDC supports projects that expand, construct, restore, or renovate Massachusetts tourism destinations and attractions.
The 61 grants provide a total of $5.9 million in funding.
The following programs received funding in Worcester County.
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts – $35,000: Installing state-of-the-art, visually appealing signage to enhance visitor navigation and highlight the Hanover Theatre & Conservatory’s presence;
- Willard House & Clock Museum (North Grafton) – $8,000: Repairing and repainting the exterior.
The programs funded outside of Worcester County are:
| Project Location |
Grantee |
Award Amount |
| Amherst |
The Eric Carle Museum of
Picture Book Art |
$166,000 |
| Aquinnah |
Town of Aquinnah |
$200,000 |
| Arlington |
Town of Arlington |
$200,000 |
| Becket |
Jacob’s Pillow
Dance Festival |
$200,000 |
| Boston |
Freedom Trail
Foundation |
$100,000 |
| Boston |
Huntington Theatre
Company |
$125,000 |
| Boston |
Museum of Fine Arts |
$125,000 |
| Boston |
Museum of Science |
$200,000 |
| Boston |
Old North Church |
$18,500 |
| Boston |
Paul Revere Memorial
Association |
$10,000 |
| Boston |
Revolutionary Spaces |
$212,500 |
| Boston |
USS Massachusetts
Commissioning Foundation |
$100,000 |
| Boston |
Wang Center for the
Performing Arts |
$150,000 |
| Concord |
Town of Concord |
$27,000 |
| Concord |
Concord Museum |
$5,000 |
| Dennis |
Dennis Chamber of
Commerce |
$10,000 |
| Dennis |
Eventide Arts |
$7,530 |
| Easthampton |
CitySpace |
$52,800 |
| Florence |
Bombyx Center for
Arts & Equity |
$8,444 |
| Fall River |
Narrows Center
for the Arts |
$75,000 |
| Gloucester |
The Gloucester
Adventure |
$100,000 |
| Gloucester |
The Hammond
Museum |
$100,000 |
| Great Barrington |
Embrace Boston |
$150,000 |
| Greenfield |
Franklin County
Agricultural Society |
$75,000 |
| Hancock |
Hancock Shaker Village |
$125,000 |
| Haverhill |
Buttonwoods Museum |
$13,850 |
| Haverhill |
Historic New England |
$125,000 |
| Hingham |
The 1686 Old Ordinary
House Museum |
$200,000 |
| Holyoke |
International Volleyball
Hall of Fame |
$50,000 |
| Hull |
The Hull Lifesaving Museum |
$125,000 |
| Hyannis |
John F. Kennedy
Hyannis Museum |
$8,900 |
| Lee |
Lee Chamber of
Commerce |
$7,000 |
| Lenox |
The Mount |
$200,000 |
| Lenox |
Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Inc. |
$125,000 |
| Lenox |
Ventfort Hall Association |
$55,000 |
| Ludlow |
Lupa Zoo |
$35,000 |
| Marblehead |
Marblehead Arts
Association |
$10,000 |
| Medway |
Medway Community
Farm |
$50,000 |
| Nantucket |
Nantucket Historical
Association |
$200,000 |
| New Bedford |
New Bedford
Art Museum |
$75,000 |
| New Bedford |
New Bedford
Historical Society |
$84,000 |
| Oak Bluffs |
Cottagers’ Corner |
$125,000 |
| Plymouth |
General Society of
Mayflower Descendants |
$100,000 |
| Plymouth |
Plimoth Patuxet Museums |
$200,000 |
| Quincy |
City of Quincy Tourism |
$125,000 |
| Salem |
City of Salem |
$200,000 |
| Salem |
The House of the
Seven Gables |
$45,000 |
| Sandwich |
Sandwich Chamber of
Commerce |
$15,000 |
| Springfield |
Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame |
$200,000 |
| Springfield |
Springfield Museums |
$125,000 |
| Springfield |
Springfield Redevelopment
Authority |
$75,000 |
| Topsfield |
Essex Agricultural Society |
$200,000 |
| West Springfield |
Eastern States Exposition |
$40,000 |
| Weymouth |
Town of Weymouth |
$200,000 |
| Williamstown |
Community Images |
$40,000 |
| Williamstown |
Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute |
$100,000 |
| Winchester |
Griffin Museum of
Photography |
$65,000 |
| Woburn |
City of Woburn |
$30,000 |
