2011 Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship – USA
A Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship, Courtesy Of A Long-Time Teacher In The Boston Public School System At USA In 2011
Scholarship Description:
A Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship, courtesy of a long-time teacher in the Boston Public School system, offers a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae and letter of intent describing the proposed project and citing specific materials from the Boston Athenæum’s collections. Graduate students must also include a letter of recommendation from their faculty advisor.
History:
The Athenæum’s collections resided briefly in a group of structures known as Joy’s buildings on Congress Street, but by the spring of 1807, it was firmly established in Scollay’s buildings on Tremont Street near the present site of Government Center. The Athenæum remained in that location until 1809, when the Trustees purchased the Rufus Amory House, adjacent to the King’s Chapel Burial Ground at what was then the easternmost point of the Boston Common. In 1822 the growing collections were moved again, this time to a mansion in Pearl Street that had been given to the Athenæum by Trustee James Perkins. In 1847, construction began on the Athenæum’s present Beacon Street building, designed by Edward Clarke Cabot and opened two years later in 1849. The first floor was originally a sculpture gallery, the second floor housed the library’s growing collection of books, and the third floor, which was originally the top floor of the building and was equipped with skylights, served as a painting gallery. The building was completely renovated in 1913-1914, at which time the fourth and fifth floors were added and the entire structure fireproofed. Architect Henry Forbes Bigelow designed these improvements.The Athenæum’s five galleried floors overlook the peaceful Granary Burying Ground, and, as Gamaliel Bradford wrote in 1931, “it is safe to say that [no library] anywhere has more an atmosphere of its own, that none is more conducive to intellectual aspiration and spiritual peace.” The building was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
Last Date To Apply:by April 15 of every year
Source:http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/110
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