April 7, 2022
Telling the Full History Fund Grant Recipient
China Alley Preservation Society (CAPS) has received $25,000 from the Telling the Full History Fund—a grant program from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and made possible through the National Endowment for the Humanities’ American Rescue Plan Humanities Grantmaking for Organizations. This funding will support restoration planning and an accompanying documentary.
CAPS is one of 80 organizations that received $25,000 and $50,000 grants to interpret and preserve historic places of importance to underrepresented communities. Telling the Full History grants support the core activities of humanities-based organizations as the organizations recover from the pandemic and use historic places as catalysts for a more just and equitable society. To learn more about this program, visit Forum.SavingPlaces.org/tellingthefullhistoryfund.
November 4, 2021
(China Alley starts at 6:25)
Trustees Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship
Each year the National Trust for Historic Preservation honors the distinguished individuals, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations who are doing important work in their communities with the National Preservation Awards at the annual PastForward Conference, November 2-5.
China Alley Preservation Society from Hanford, California was honored with the Trustees Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship for our stewardship of the Taoist Temple Museum during the National Preservation Awards Ceremony on the evening of Thursday, November 4. The Trustees Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship recognizes success and innovation in historic preservation, management, and programming at historic sites. The event is part of PastForward Online 2021. The program can be viewed for free from SavingPlaces.org/conference.
October 20, 2021
The Beginning of A New Chapter
China Alley Preservation Society (CAPS) is thrilled to be working with RLA Conservation of Art & Architecture and Cooke’s Crating and Fine Arts Transportation, who spent a week in China Alley and began to clean, stabilize, and crate our most damaged artifacts. They will all be eventually transported to Los Angeles for further conservation.
Both teams worked tirelessly and became enamored with China Alley. We feel relieved and grateful that our priceless artifacts are in good hands as they start a new chapter on their journey to restoration!
October 11, 2021
California Humanities Relief Grants
China Alley Preservation Society (CAPS) is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of the California Humanities Relief Grants.
The California Humanities Relief and Recovery Grants are awarded to humanities-focused organizations facing challenges due to COVID-19. They provides vital funds to assist the public humanities sector across California during the relief and recovery stages of the pandemic. Funding for these grants is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
July 31, 2021
China alley through the years
China Alley Preservation Society (CAPS) is pleased to announce its exhibition “China Alley Through the Years” at the Carnegie Museum of Kings County.
In this exhibition the viewers will see rare photographs of China Alley in its early years, the people that made it the vibrant Chinatown it once was, as well as its current condition after the devastating fire that heavily damaged our Temple Museum on May 12, 2021. Accompanying these photographs will also be some artifacts from our collection.
The museum is open from Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-4pm. It is located at 109 E 8th St, Hanford, CA 93230.