G E N E S E E C O U N T R Y V I L L A G E & M U S E U M

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G E N E S E E COUN T R Y V ILLAG E & M U S E U M

board of trustees officersGayle A. G. Stiles, Chair Elizabeth A. Wehle, Vice Chair Susan van der Stricht, TreasurerAnthony T. Selvaggio, SecretaryPeter S. Arnold, President and CEOPhilip K. Wehrheim, Immediate Past Chair

William Balderston, IIIJean ChandlerThomas E. ClementSherman Farnham, Jr.

John L. Garrett Marjorie A. JonesSue S. StewartD.H.S. Wehle, Ph.D.

trustees emeriti

BOARD & S TAFF 2015

trusteesPeter S. ArnoldRichard A. AshJanice G. AshleyJames D. BarberHelen H. BerkeleyTerryl S. ButwidWilliam L. ElyRichard C. FoxGina G. GiesePeter M. GreendykeA. Thomas HildebrandtKevin D. KinneyCynthia S. KolkoDaniel W. Mahar

administrative staffPeter S. ArnoldPresident and CEO

Stacy L. KehrerChief Financial Officer

Charles A. LeCountSenior Director of Programs and Collections

Christine M. RovetSenior Director of Guest Services and Administration

Melanie C. DiazDirector of Special Events

Alan J. BraunDirector of Development

Susan S. DuffinDirector of Development

Brett S. ElliottDirector of Facilities

Robin K. Lott ReeseDirector of Retail and Visitor Services

Brian L. NagelDirector of Interpretation

Patricia M. Tice Curator, John L. Wehle Gallery

Peter A. WisbeyCurator, Curator of Collections

our missionThe mission of Genesee Country Village

& Museum is to inspire excitement and curiosity about the past and an appreciation for its relevance today.

Visitors experience how life in small towns has changed over time through engaging and enjoyable encounters with the stories, objects, buildings, and environments of Western New York.

Michael L. McDougallAnthony T. SelvaggioWilliam L. ShawClifford W. Smith, Jr., Ph.D.Gary SquiresGayle A. G. StilesScott M. TurnerSusan van der StrichtElizabeth A. WehlePhilip K. WehrheimJanet S. WelchMichael R. Whelan Craig Yunker

Letter from the President and Board Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

A taste of the 19th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Summer Camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

New STEM Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

At the Nature Center . . . . . . . 3

Fish, Fashions, and Coverlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Finance at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . 6

Treasurer’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Donations and Gifts . . . . . . . . . 8

contents

G E N E S E E COUN T R Y V ILLAG E & M U S E U M

board of trustees officers

administrative staff

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Many things were accomplished this year in a wide variety of areas. Over the past several years we have

made great strides in replacing 40-year-old, worn-out infrastructure, such as HVAC systems and boilers, and

this year, which saw the replacement of our walk-in freezers and coolers, was no exception. This initiative

puts us in good shape for the next 25 years.

Restoration and maintenance of the Historic Village buildings is, of course, a never-ending cycle and a

top priority. This year we were able to paint the exterior of the Livingston-Backus House and, as a result, it

looks spectacular. Staff removed the heavy accretions of old paint from the moldings on the tops of several

pilasters at the entrance to the house to ensure that the architectural details were recovered and clearly visible

to visitors.

We also received a wonderful grant from the Charles Fund, which will enable us to restore another four

buildings in the village—the Wagonmaker Shop, Tailor Shop, Drug Store and Printing Office—and re-imagine

the programming in them, with a special focus on STEM activities. In addition, the board voted to allow up to

$500,000 to be spent from the Collections Fund on the restoration of buildings over the next several years.

We have entered into an agreement with the Rochester Historical Society to create a joint exhibit featuring

the RHS’s collection of children’s’ portraits from the early 19th century. The exhibit will be displayed in the three

upstairs rooms of the Livingston-Backus House (currently used for storage), converting them into portrait gallery

space. We hope this agreement with RHS will lead to a long-term relationship.

The museum sold approximately 100 acres of farmland and also deeded a permanent wetlands

conservation easement over another 180 acres, adjoining the Oatka Creek, to the federal government. Both

deals were very favorable to the museum, and the proceeds will bolster our quasi-endowment.

Our annual Trick-or-Treat event was hugely successful this year with 5,337 people attending. This was the

highest attendance we have seen in the past eight years and must be among the highest ever one-day attendance.

Interestingly, very little was spent on advertising, but we promoted it heavily on social media. A local company also

produced an interactive, virtual tour of the entire museum free of charge. This allows for 360° photography inside

the buildings as well as out, and the viewer can navigate from point to point around the campus.

Our operational success is due solely to the loyalty and dedication of our staff, but our loyal donors make

that success possible. Long hours and low pay are often the hallmark of museums, so it is abundantly clear

that our staff members do the work they do because of a deep belief that it is important, and because they

love what they do. Nonetheless, our annual operating budget remains a huge challenge. The minimum wage

has risen considerably and will rise even further over the coming years, while some sources of revenue have

dried up. We are therefore very, very, grateful to you, our supporters for your financial contributions. This

museum exists for the benefit of the people of Western New York, and our future is ultimately in your hands.

Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for us.

G E N E S E E COUNTRY V ILLAGE & MUSEUM

a letter from the president & board chair

Peter S. Arnold Gayle A.G. StilesPresident and CEO Chair of the Board of Trustees

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A $10,000 chocolate grant from American Heritage Chocolate, the Historic Division of Mars, enabled us to enhance the knowledge of regional chocolate use and expand demonstrations within the village, at off-site venues and though new adult classes. Our craftsmen built two period reproduction cabinets to house materials for chocolate demonstrations in Thomson Tavern. We created chocolate cocktails for guests at Lobsterfest and acted as “guest bartenders” in Black Button Distilling’s tasting room. We

also purchased additional equipment and tables to expand our public programs at the museum.

The Whistle Stop kitchen and D.B. Munger Confectionery

expanded their offerings and contact points in 2015. We launched our popular savory-meat-and-vegetable hand pies in the spring and staffed a mobile confectionery cart near admissions on weekends. We also provided desserts and decorated gift boxes for presidential luncheons to friends and donors in the Lodge. The Yuletide season was celebrated with made-from-scratch Christmas cookies sold in the Flint Hill Store.

With special events, we hosted the second Domestic Skills Symposium in November with increased registrations (98 from six states and Canada), workshop attendees and sale of Crafts-in-the-Village goods. Speakers included Rabbit Goody from Thistle Hill Weavers and Jonathan Townsend, owner of Jas. Townsend and Son. Interpretation continued to create new content for marketing and promoted programs through social

For 20 years, a dedicated group of volunteer painters has kept the

museum looking fresh and new. During the winter, they work on interior spaces, benches, chairs and signage. In the summer they turn to fences and other outdoor work. Last year, members of the group painted rooms inside the Livingston-Backus House, the Boot and Shoemaker Shop and Thomson’s Tavern. In the spring, the volunteers painted the exterior of the George Eastman Birthplace, leaving only a few high areas for the facilities department to complete.

This year, Livingston-Backus and the Altay Store were given fresh coats of paint by Ryan & Sons Painting. Mike Dube, of Dube Plastering and Stucco, repaired interior walls at the Boot and Shoe shop and Thomson’s Tavern. Bero Architecture was contracted to examine the “Yankee” gutter system on three of the historic buildings – Foster House, Jones Farm and Humphrey House. Bero has developed construction drawings for new copper linings that will be put out to bid in 2016.

In an interesting use of new technology for preservation, Pictometry, a Rochester company specializing in complex aerial mapping, surveyed the wooden shake roof of the Hyde House using drones. Their high-resolution images reveal the roof condition and enable calculation of the square footage specifications for new roofing.

preservation

a taste of the 19th century

media. We were featured in the I Love New York media tour and FAM arranged through VisitRochester. There were interviews with Time Warner Cable News during the Maple Sugar Festival, video presentations for school teachers, and posts on our blog and Facebook pages that generated more than 10,000 views each and hundreds of shares. We made personal appearances at the Rochester Public Market and hosted Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Robert Duffy and staff.

In August, we offered special $5 Upstairs/Downstairs behind-the-scenes tours in the village twice each weekday that guests called “excellent” and observed that these were unique among historical institutions. They declared that they would enjoy coming back for more.

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The museum’s summer camp programs continue to attract new campers each year. The program increased by 67 registrations in 2015 to 455 enrollments. The camp has also expanded its programming and hours for younger children, resulting in continued increase in enrollment over the past two years.

summer camps

Funded and supported through the Trees for Tributaries (Trees for Tribs) program and administered by NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, the nature center, in partnership with the Oatka Creek Watershed Committee, was granted an award to purchase and plant 270 native trees and shrubs along the stream on the museum’s Oatka Creek Property. This volunteer tree planting event targeted areas that were in need of streambank stabilization with an eye toward future concerns associated with the Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive insect pest.

Two Eagle Scout projects were completed at the nature center in 2015. A new bridge was constructed behind the nature center connecting a new trail entrance to the main trail system. Another project saw landscape timbers installed to define the nature center footpath from the main parking area. The entire area was weeded, mulched and a bridge was washed and repaired.

The museum placed 186 acres of its creek property into the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service Wetland Reserve Program where it will be permanently protected, restored and enhanced for long-term conservation and wildlife habitat protection.

at the nature center

new stem programming

The number of school students attending the museum’s education programs held strong in 2015. We welcomed 22,921 students, teachers and chaperones to the site for field trips in the Historic Village and nature center. Special programs like Earth Day, Gone Fishin’, Civil War Day and Simple Machine Day continued to help the museum expand its offerings to homeschool families.

The Rochester City School District remains one of the museum’s primary education audiences. Of the 8,881 Monroe County students who visited, 3,365 were from schools within the RCSD. Part of the museum’s ability to attract the city schools is the result of staff’s on-going efforts at developing partnerships with teachers by meeting their special needs. The museum continued its association with Nathaniel Rochester Community School Number 3 in creating a new STEM-based program for their 2015 field trip. Because the focus was simple machine technology the previous year, the school requested a math program for their fall visit. Over the course of three days, the museum saw 504 students in grades K-8 from School Number 3 using the site to learn about shapes, measurements, fractions and ratios. None of this would be possible without the generous support of the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation, which helps to cover busing costs and defray admission for Rochester City School visits to the museum.

In 2015, the museum saw a substantial increase in its Moveable Museum Outreach programs. The museum staff offers 19 different programs year-round to schools, libraries, adult living facilities, scout groups and community organizations. An increased promotion to schools and adult living facilities resulted in 114 presentations in 2015, nearly doubling 2014. In all, 3,306 students and adults participated in the programs, nearly 60 per cent more than 2014.

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Inspired by art collected by GCV&M’s founder, John L. Wehle, the gallery opened a new exhibition, Gone Fishin’, The Angler and the Artist in June 2015.

Whether for sustenance or sport, people have fished since ancient times with spears, hooks, nets, traps and bare hands. And right behind them came artists, portraying both fish and fisher in their watery depths and secluded glens.

fish, fashions, and coverlets

regional museums, the exhibit explores how art, nature and history intersect. From the Rochester Museum & Science Center comes the exhibit’s oldest artifacts: fish hooks and a spearhead used by the native peoples who lived near Lamoka Lake (on the border of Schuyler and Steuben counties) around 2500 BCE. The Rochester Historical Society kindly loaned its collection of tackle and artifacts belonging to Rochestarian Seth Green, who established the first successful fish hatchery at Caledonia in 1864. Rare fishing flies, hand-tied by Mary Orvis Marbury, who standardized the classification of American fishing flies, are also on view, courtesy of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, VT. This exhibit was made possible through grants from The Riedman Foundation and the New York Council for the Humanities. A grant from the Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation has enabled GCV&M to offer special school and home-school lessons, taught jointly at the John L. Wehle Gallery and the Genesee Country Nature Center.

Last year marked the final season for the exhibit Fashion in Fiction. However, through a new internship program established with the Rochester Institute

of Technology, this exhibit will live on as an online exhibit, currently under development. While gallery staff dismantled Fashion in Fiction, they were already planning the next exhibit celebrating GCV&M’s 40th anniversary, Forty and Fabulous, opening May 7, 2016. This exhibit will showcase recent acquisitions, including coverlets from the Colin Richmond collection, donated in 2014 in memory of Virginia Richmond, and a generous donation from Susan Greene, founder of the Susan Greene Costume Collection.

The Greene donation consists of over 300 sewing tools, fashion accessories, transfer-printed ceramics, quilts, product packages, clothing artifacts and fashion-related prints. The sewing tools range from a simple wooden darning egg, used for thriftily mending worn stockings, to exquisite ivory needle cases, clamps and thread winders. This collection also includes 19th-century clothing patterns, buckles, jewelry, decorative hair combs, laces and trimmings, spectacles, cigar cases and even “artificial curls.” Virtual visitors can view these and other objects from the Greene Collection each week on Twitter’s #fashionfriday.

The art and costume collections continue to attract experts in these fields from institutions in the US and other

Like the good fisherman or—as history records—good fisherwoman, the insightful artist observed and absorbed nature. It was not merely the silvery arc of a trout that landed on the canvas; it was America’s changing ideas about the natural world and human interaction with it.

Angling art mirrors the great movements in art and popular thought, from romanticism that extolled the splendors of nature to realism that saw beauty in the everyday. American angling art also recorded a more democratic approach to fishing, cutting across class, gender and age lines, engaging men, women and children alike. While many paintings depict wealthy fishermen equipped with patented reels and rods, there were also artists who delighted in portraying the humble fisherman who lands a whopper with just a well-chosen branch, proving as President Herbert Hoover would declare, “All men are equal before fish.”

Augmented by paintings and historical fishing artifacts borrowed from 11

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The 2015 special events season saw the reiteration of many of the museum’s traditional favorites like the Independence Day Celebration, Civil War Re-enactment and Yuletide in the Country tours, along with several new programs. Overall we have seen the value of an increased presence on social media as a marketing tool for special events. This was particularly evident with our Trick-or-Treating program, which experienced a record-breaking 87 per cent increase in attendance and again reflected in the 50 per cent increase in market vendors recruited for the Agricultural Fair & Fall Festival.

In response to visitor requests for more nighttime programming, the Historic Village hosted a monthly, reservation-only series of After-Hours Tours that sold out every time. Visitors were guided by our museum historians on a 90-minute themed, theatrical walk through the village and behind barriers, braving tales of sensational 19th-century crime, enjoying the enduring folktales of the Genesee Country and the day-to- day experiences of our buildings’ former residents.

Also new to special programming was History on Tap, a single evening event geared to young professionals. This outdoor, after-hours happy hour with live music, 19th-century games and activities, and small tours of select historic buildings proved successful in attracting a younger crowd with their couples and groups of friends and colleagues.

In addition to Spirits-of-the-Past tours, whose revenue has tripled over the last seven years, these evening events have proved a trend of attracting visitors to seemingly more intimate gatherings during the museum’s quieter hours. As such, After-Hours Tours and History on Tap will be featured again in 2016.

countries. Staff facilitated loans of sporting art to the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY, and the National Sporting Library & Museum, Middleburg, VA. Curator Nathan Fils from the Yale Center for British Art visited the Gallery in December to study The Game Larder, by Francis Barlow, whose art will be the subject of a forthcoming Yale publication and exhibition. Curator Erin Santamaria, from Australia’s Sovereign Hill museum, spent two days studying 1850s clothing, while compatriot Alden O’Brian researched early 19th-century headwear.

The gallery also provides a unique and welcoming venue for after-hour meetings and tours. In 2015, the gallery hosted several book clubs, a doll club and re-enactor’s club. Staff plans to develop this aspect of service in 2016. Total gallery visitation for 2015 was 18,381.

special events

Success begets success. The acquisition of the Virginia Richmond Coverlet Collection in 2014 nearly doubled the size of the museum’s holdings of these fancy, mid-19th-century bedcoverings. This year we added 16 more, including nine from Colin Richmond, donated in his wife’s name, and seven from the daughters of John and Martha Jack. These donations establish the museum as a noteworthy center for coverlet collectors and scholars.

Not to be outdone by coverlets, the museum received a very fine, matched pair of “Carolina Lily” applique quilts. These quilts, made about 1860, are in pristine condition and still show pencil marks which guided the quilter’s needle.

collections

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F I N A N C E AT A G LANC E

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TRUSTEE CAMPAIGN 5%

ENDOWM

ENTS

& TRUSTS

26%

EARN

ED

INC

OM

E

38%

FUNDRAISING36%

QUASI ENDOWMENT FUND 2%

OTHER 1%

COLLECTIONS FUND21%

ENDOWMENT FUND10%

CHARITABLE TRUSTS

22%

JOHN L. WEHLE FOUNDATION

45%

ADMISSIONS45%

SCHOOL TOURS AND YOUTH PROGRAMS

16%

RETAIL STORES (NET)13%

FOOD SERVICES

(NET) 12%

RENTAL INCOME

13%

RELEASE OF FORMERLY RESTRICTED FUNDS

25%

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS

7%

FOUNDERS CIRCLE MEMBERS 7%

GIFTS IN KIND 13%

FOUNDATION GIFTS15%

MEMBERSHIPINCOME

15%CORPORATE GIFTS

8%

STATE & COUNTY SUPPORT 5%

OTHER $186,964

SCHOLARSHIPS $36,984

MARKETING $150,020 AND PROMOTION

UTILITIES $142,860

PERSONNEL$2,157,208

SUPPLIES194,517

OUTSIDE SERVICES$376,764

INSURANCE $88,705

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Like many cultural organizations we are challenged to maintain an exceptional visitor experience with fewer resources. As funding sources shrink and costs of doing business rise, we have been forced to take several actions, including staff reductions. With that in mind the Board of Trustees has formed a new committee, consisting of the President, CFO, Treasurer and 4 other Trustees, whose sole focus is the museum’s long-term financial stability. The committee has developed a plan that involves multi-pronged approaches designed either to increase revenue or reduce expenses. These approaches will examine every aspect of the operation of the museum and will be explored and advanced simultaneously. We are committed to furthering the mission of the museum and are undertaking these activities to preserve our history for the benefit of future generations.

Copies of the museum’s financial statements, audited by Bonadio & Co., LLP, are available (without charge) from the Chief Financial Officer.

A S S E T S

Cash and Cash Equivalents $347,633

Inventories & Prepaids $165,786

Receivables $25,193

Other Noncurrent Assets —

Property & Equipment, net $12,330,954

Investments $2,720,905

Investments - Collections Fund $3,642,669

Beneficial Interest in Perpetual Trust $2,958,945

Total Assets $22,192,085

LIABIL ITIES & NET ASSETS

Liabilities

Accounts Payable $77,736

Line of Credit $287,000

Other $81,024

Total Liabilities $445,760

Net assets

Unrestricted:

Operating $12,165,136

Quasi-Endowment $925,525

Collections Fund $3,642,669

Total Unrestricted $16,733,330

Temporarily Restricted $247,775

Permanently Restricted $4,765,220

Total Net Assets $21,746,325

Total Liabilities & Net Assets $22,192,085

T REAS U R E R’S R E P O R T

SUMMARIZED STATEMENTOF FINANCIAL POSITION

12 / 31/ 2015

Susan van der Stricht, Treasurer

$1,325,030

C

ONTRIBUTIONS & GIFTS

INVESTMENT INCOME

MEMBERSHIP DUES

ADMISSION FEES

GOVERNMENT GRANTS

$787,255

$326,559$268,011

$164,069$180,362

$122,966$56,000

$159,484

$180,919

OPERATING INCOME$1,400,000

$1,200,000

$1,000,000

$800,000

$600,000

$400,000

MONIES RELEASED

FROM RESTRICTION

FUNDRAISING EVENTS

OTHER INCOME

RETAIL & FOOD SALES

FACILITIES RENTALS

$2,157,208

$351,310 $376,764$194,517

$142,860$150,020 $88,705 $36,984

$186,964

UTILITIES

INSURANCE

SCHOLARSHIPS

PERSONNEL

DEPRECIATION

OUTSID

E SERVICES

SUPPLIES

M

ARKETING A

ND

PROMOTION

OTHER

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$1,000,000

$500,000

OPERATING EXPENSES

FUNDRAISING 7%

MANAGEMENT& GENERAL 16%

PROGRAMS 77%

F U N C T I O N A L E X P E N S E S

OTHER 1%

A Different Point of ViewAllen-Bailey Tag & Label, Inc.American Rock Salt

Company, LLCArtisan Meats (Hartmanns)Richard A. AshAustin Design 3DBarillaBe Local NowBig Dog Country,

103.5 WUUFBillsboro WineryBlack Button DistillingBonadio & Co., LLPBristol HarbourBristol Valley TheatreCaledonia Village InnCalifornia ClosetsCanandaigua

Chamber of CommerceChar Steak & LoungeDavid A. Candlena

Graphic Design Cedar Street Sales & RentalsCentury Liquor & WinesJonathan Chase and

Melissa AlberCintas The Uniform PeopleCity NewspaperCity of Rochester

Fire DepartmentCJ Country RadioCorning Museum of GlassCozy Kitchen RestaurantDaffies PizzaDoyle Security Systems, Inc.Entercom - WBEE 92.5Stoner Hill Farms Forsythe Jewelers, Inc.FSI General Contractors

Fulreader Tree & Landscape, Inc.

Genesee Country Inn Bed & Breakfast

Genesee SunGenesee Valley Hunt RacesGeorge Eastman MuseumGEVA Theatre CenterGina G. Giese and

Walter SzczesnyGigglin PigMr. & Mrs. John C. GorslineMs. Jessica C. GreenGrinnell’s RestaurantHampton Inn GeneseoHazlitt Red Cat CellarsHealthy Sisters Soup &

Bean WorksHurd OrchardsJ.A. Gold Associates, Inc.Joseph’s Catering ServiceThe Sign of the Gray HorseLegends 102.7,

DJRO Broadcasting, LLCLeRoy PennysaverMs. Susan Leurgans Mr. & Mrs. Robert LillisLowe’s Companies, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Christopher LynnMacKenzie-ChildsMacy’s, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Ronald MaguireMr. & Mrs. Daniel W. MaharManning, Squires,

Hennig Co., Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Lance J. ManvilleMarketview LiquorMcArdle’s RestaurantMr. Neil McCoy McKay Antiques

McPherson OrchardsMcQuaid JesuitMemorial Art Gallery of the

University of RochesterMichael Ryan &

Sons PaintingMidtown Athletic ClubMiller Brick Co.Mrs. Linda MitchellMr. & Mrs. William B. Morse, IIINew York

Wine & Culinary CenterNFP Telecom, LLCNolan’s Rental, Inc.North American

Breweries, Inc.One of a Kind Weavings Ms. Freda PeisleyPembroke Pines Media WQRWr Salon & Spa Ray Sands GlassRed Jacket Orchards Rochester Chamber of

CommerceRochester Museum & Science

CenterRochester Oratorio SocietyRochester Philharmonic

OrchestraRoses in the HedgerowMr. & Mrs. Thomas Rowe Sans Souci JewelersMs. Emily SatloffLarkspur & Hawk Scott Miller Salon & SpaSeabreeze Amusement ParkMr. & Mrs. Anthony T. Selvaggio,

Esq.Seneca Park Zoo SocietyShampain’s Baubles

Mr. & Mrs. William L. ShawDr. & Mrs. Clifford W. Smith, Jr.,

Ph.D.Mrs. Linda Newland Soltis Star of the West Milling Co.Stephens Media GroupGayle A. G. and Robert StilesThe Strong National Museum

of PlayFrank Tantalo PhotographyTap My Trees, LLCTarget Stores, VictorTavern 135 Textiles By MeThe Original Crab Shack The Reunion InnThe Woolery on Main StreetTops Markets, LLC, LeRoyMr. David Valvo Mrs. Susan R. van der StrichtVitamin & Card OutletVitoch Interiors WACK (1420 AM)Walt Disney World Co. WBTA AM 1490Ms. Elizabeth A. WehleMs. Elizabeth A. WehleWestside News, Inc.Williams Tree FarmMichael Redmond Whelan and

Dodie Gumaer Wm. Hamilton & Son, Inc.

- Ace HardwareWoodcliff Hotel & SpaWVIN-FM/WABH-AM

Pembrook Pines Media Group

The Garden Club of America Visit Rochester

Adept Equipment Services, Inc. Advanced Coating Service, Inc. Alesco Advisors, LLC ALSTOM Signaling

Foundation, Inc. American Equipment, LLC Ball Corporation Bancroft-Tubbs Family Fund BCI Koch Division Bero Architecture, PLLC Bonadio & Co., LLP Brach Machine, Inc. C.P. Ward, Inc./Livingston

Associates, Inc. Caledonia Diesel, LLC Canandaigua National Bank

& Trust Co. CB Craft Brewers Commercial Pipe &

Supply Corporation Connection Technology Center, Inc. Connolly Sales & Marketing ConServe Dell YourCause, LLC Doyle Security Systems, Inc. Fairport Savings Bank First Niagara Risk Management Fischer Group at

Graystone Consulting Five Star Bank Friends of Bob Duffy G.W. Lisk Company, Inc. Genesee Valley Equine Clinic Genesee Valley Motors, Inc. Integre Technologies, LLC Integrity Tool, Inc. Irish Companies Jaus Trucking John T. Howe, CLU, MSFS

Kenrick Corporation Klein Reinforcing Services, Inc. Lacy Katzen, LLP Lamb Family Medicine, PLLC Liberty Pumps, Inc. Linden Oaks Management M&T Bank Manning, Squires, Hennig Co., Inc. Matthews and Fields

Lumber Co., Inc. Matthews House Movers, Inc. McDougall Communications Mech Tech HVAC National Fuel Gas Distribution

Corporation Naughton’s Johnson House North American Breweries, Inc. O’Connell Electric Company OppenheimerFunds, Inc. Paychex, Inc. Pepsi Beverages Company Pictometry International

Corporation Ramsey Constructors, Inc. Stringed Instrument Services Sweeteners Plus, Inc. Thomson Reuters Tompkins Bank of Castile and

Tompkins Financial Center Toshiba Business Solutions USA Payroll Van Bortel Motorcar, Inc. Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. Wendy’s Restaurants

of Rochester, Inc. Wright Beverage DistributingThe Dolomite Group The M&T Charitable FoundationThe Pike Company

donations and gifts JANUARY 1, 2015 – DECEMBER 31, 2015

GIFTS-IN-KIND

FOUNDATIONS AND CHARITABLE TRUSTS GRANTS AND GIFTS

The Ashley Family FoundationDaisy Marquis Jones FoundationThe Davenport-Hatch

Foundation, Inc.Donald F. & Maxine B. Davison FoundationElizabeth F. Cheney FoundationESL Charitable Foundation

The Farash FoundationWilliam & Mildred Feinbloom FundLloyd E. Klos Historical FundPalermo-Ravich Family FoundationRiedman FoundationSammy Pierson Memorial FundThe M&T Charitable Foundation

Helen and Ritter Shumway Foundation Robert C. & Jane K. Stevens

Legacy FundNora van der Stricht Charitable

Lead Annuity TrustThe van der Stricht FoundationThe Louis A. Wehle Trust for Descendants

Monroe County NYS Office of Parks, Recreation

and Historic Preservation

New York State Council on the ArtsNew York Council for the

Humanities

GOVERNMENT GRANTS

ORGANIZATIONS

CORPORATE DONORS

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Mr. & Mrs. Peter Affolter Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence C. Albanese Mr. & Mrs. John M. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Eric Anderson-Zych Ms. Nancy Antenozzi Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Ashley Dr. & Mrs. Edward C. Atwater Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Balonek Mr. & Mrs. James D. Barber Mr. & Mrs. Donal T. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Marion Bickford Ms. Wendy Billington Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Boccacino Mr. & Mrs. James Boldt Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boni Mrs. Christine Booth Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Bowen Ms. Cheryl Breitenbuecher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Ron Browne Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Bucci Marcia E. Buhl & David Carstensa Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Calnan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Carlino Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Carpentier Mr. & Mrs. Harold Carter Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cervi Allison Chalker & Deborah Stein Mr. & Mrs. Larry Chrysler Chris Churchill Alfred Clark, Jr. &

Patricia Ann Andre-Clark Mrs. Kathy Cleason Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Clement Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Clement, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Cloutier Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cook Mr. & Mrs. Gary A. Cousins Mr. & Mrs. Kevin rane Mr. & Mrs. AG Cutrona Mrs. Linda W. Davey Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Darryl Dickinson Ms. Carol W. Diedering Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Dintruff Ms. Lisa B. Ellsworth Mr. & Mrs. James Ely Mr. & Mrs. William J. Erdle Mr. & Mrs. Zennen W. Ervin Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Erwin Mr. Francis E. Evans Ms. Catherine Fay Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Fazio Ms. Daniele Feerick Ms. Susanna Ferris Mr. Gary Fleckenstein Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Fox Mr. & Mrs. George E. Frederick Mr. & Mrs. John Fredericks Mrs. Judith Freys Ms. Dotty Fritze Mr. & Mrs. James W. Fulmer Ms. Sheila D. Furr Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gaffney Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Gaisser Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Garrett, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Gay

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Gelsomino Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Goodell Mr. & Mrs. John Gray,

Windy Acres Farm Mr. & Mrs. Lior Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Griffen Mr. Andrew R. Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hare Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hargather Mr. & Mrs. Jared Harris Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Hartley Mrs. Dawn M. Hastings Ms. Heather Heineman Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Heinle Mrs. Elaine K. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jeff House Mr. & Mrs. James B. Isaac Mr. David L. Jamison Ms. Sarah Jennejahn Ms. Genevieve Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Francis Johnson-Stoj Brian Kane & June Castellano Dr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Karpinski Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Kennedy Mr. John B. Kish Mrs. Rose-Marie B. Klipstein Mrs. Jeanne Klotzbach Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Kozma Mr. & Mrs. Duane Krueger Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Kubit Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Kulzer Mr. & Mrs. Kraig M. Kummer Mr. & Mrs. Harold A. Kurland Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Kyhos, Jr. Stephen E. Laiosa & Gladney Hanlon Mrs. Carol H. Laniak Mr. & Mrs. Phillip J. Lederer Mr. & Mrs. Tom Lemen Family Shauna Leone & Mark Adamson Mr. David Leupold Mr. & Mrs. Chris Lewis Ellen & Paula Lightfoote Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lillis Ms. Tina Little Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Losey Mr. David Lotta Ms. Molly Low Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Luczkiewicz Mr. Donald MacKay Mr. & Mrs. William C. Maier Ms. Mary Mapes Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Mapstone Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marcus Mr. Robert P. McAleavey Mr. Edward McClive Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. McDougall Mr. & Mrs. William D. McGinnis Mr. Donald I. McKay Mr. & Mrs. Carl T. McQuillen Ms. Dixie Messenger Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Messing Mr. & Mrs. Kenpe W. Miller Mary Candance Minchella

& Dan Smialek Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Moll Mr. John Mooney Mr. James C. Moore Mr. & Mrs. William B. Morse, III Ms. Sandra L. Mortellaro Mr. William B. Muchmore Mr. & Mrs. Gerard E. Muhl Mr. & Mrs. Gary J. Myers

Mr. & Mrs. William O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Orman Ms. Jennifer O’Shea Mr. & Mrs. Hans S. Osterhoudt Lloyd M. Peasley & Mary B. Gately Mr. Robert Perotta Mr. & Mrs. Charles Pettit Mr. & Mrs. Eric Pierson Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Place Mr. & Mrs. Duane A. Pond Mr. & Mrs. Calvin L. Poulter Mr. & Mrs. Donald Powers Ms. Mary Jane Proschel Mr. & Mrs. Paul I. Randall Ms. JoBeth Rath Mr. & Mrs. David Reid Mr. & Mrs. Darrell C. Reimer Mr. & Mrs. Grosvenor Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Donald S. Rimai Mr. & Mrs. Fred Rissberger Mr. & Mrs. Nathan J. Robfogel Ms. Salley Rosa Mr. & Mrs. Greg Ruthven Ms. Jean G. Ryon Mr. & Mrs. Frank Sadowski, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Sage Dr. & Mrs. James O. Sanders Mr. William Sandvik Mr. Peter Sayadoff Mrs. Verne Schattner Mr. & Mrs. Paul Schojan Mr. Michael A. Seager Mr. & Mrs. Demelt Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Siegrist Mr. & Mrs. Leal C. Smith Ms. Melissa Spink Deborah G. Spratt & Sara Ingersoll Eric Steigerwald & Cindy Mills Mr. Michael Sullivan Mr. Thomas M. Suter &

Katherine Gilda Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swarner Ms. Janet E. Thoerner Mr. & Mrs. William S. Thomas, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Thurley Mr. & Mrs. William Towler Mr. & Mrs. Robert John Trost Mr. & Mrs. J. Lanny Tucker Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Ulrich Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Urbon Lori Vail & Rebecca Hazard Ms. Anne Van Bork Mr. & Mrs. Mark Vitale Dr. & Mrs. Benny Vitullo Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Walters Ms. Shirley Ward Ms. Kathy Warren Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Webb Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Wehle Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wehrheim Mr. David Welker Ronald J Wiegand &

Christine Kerxhalli, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Wilkes William Kent, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Timothy E. Wilson Mrs. Penny M. Wise Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Witter Mr. & Mrs. Kenn Yartz Mr. Nicholas Zajac Mr. Jonathan Ziehl

DONORS WHO SUPPORTED THE MUSEUM AT $500 TO $999

Mr. & Mrs. Jason Aldred Dr. Mattie E. Alleyne, DDS Mrs. Stuart Bolger Mr. & Mrs. William Brach Drs. Robert & Paula Burkard Robert Burkhart & Glennie Clement Mr. & Mrs. C. Terence Butwid Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Chapman Jonathan Chase & Melissa Alber Mr. & Mrs. Spencer J. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Fulford Mr. & Mrs. John L. Garrett Mr. & Mrs. John C. Gorsline Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Hale Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Hamlin Mr. & Mrs. James W. Harper Mr. & Mrs. Bob Herson Mr. & Mrs. Clinton F. Ivins, III Mr. & Mrs. Howie Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. V. Craig Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Jones Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Judson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Josh Kent Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Kinney Mr. & Mrs. Glenn J. Kist Mr. & Mrs. Steven Leupold Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Lunt Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Maddamma Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Maguire

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick D. Martin Mrs. Betsy C. McIsaac Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Morse Mr. & Mrs. John Murray Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Murray Mrs. Suzanne Nasipak-Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nickel Ms. Jane Ellen Parker &

Mr. Fran Cosentino Mr. Donald A.Parry Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Phillips Mr. & Mrs. James R. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Rappleye Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Regan Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Rheinwald Ms. Anne M. Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ruller John B. Rumsey & Elizabeth Pine Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Shanahan Mr. & Mrs. David Swinford Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Tait, II Mr. & Mrs. Kim Tenreiro Mr. & Mrs. Eugene J. Tonucci Mr. Charles W. Treat Mr. & Mrs. John R. Tyler, Jr. Ms. Nancy C. Viola Mr. & Mrs. Gerard G. Walter Mrs. Sergeant W. Wise Mr. & Mrs. E. Malcolm Wolcott, Jr.

DONORS WHO SUPPORTED THE MUSEUM AT $1000 TO $2499

Ms. Carin Frederick Mr. & Mrs. Michael Friedler Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Fulreader, Jr. Roger L. Gardner and Terry LaFave Gina G. Giese and Walter Szczesny Mr. Steven P. Kerchoff Cynthia and David Kolko Mr.& Mrs. Richard W. Minster Mrs. Linda Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Shane Nickerson Mr. & Mrs. James Nicoll

Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Penfold Mr. & Mrs. David Rasmussen Mr. & Mrs. David F. Resch Mr. & Mrs Anthony T . Selvaggio, Esq. Mark Siwiec and Duffy Palmer Ms. Tyna Slocum Mr. Robert C. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Tomaino, Sr. Ms. Patricia H. Wehle Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zeliff

Anonymous Mr. Richard A. Ash Mrs. Helen H. Berkeley Mrs. Robert V. Gianniny Mr. & Mrs. A. Thomas Hildebrandt

Dr. & Mrs. Clifford W. Smith, Jr., Ph.D. Gayle A. G. and Robert Stiles Ms. Elizabeth A. Wehle Mr. Philip K. Wehrheim

DONORS WHO SUPPORTED THE MUSEUM AT $10,000 OR MORE

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. William Balderston, III Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bickford Rev. & Mrs. Garth E. Brokaw Mrs. Thomas E. Clement Mr. & Mrs. Todd Cook Mr. & Mrs. Mark Davitt Michael Redmond Whelan &

Dodie Gumaer Mr & Mrs. William Ely Mrs. Gail M. Fowler Mrs. Richard J. Garrett, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Greendyke Mr. & Mrs. James M. Lamb

Dr. & Mrs. Leo R. Landhuis Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Mahar Jennifer Newman &

Thomas Anderson William J. Shattuck & Ann Stevens Mr. & Mrs. William L. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Gary Squires Scott M. Turner &

Mary Worboys-Turner Mrs. Susan R. van der Stricht Dr. & Mrs. Ethan L. Welch Ms. Mary Quille Westbrook Mr. & Mrs. Craig Yunker

DONORS WHO SUPPORTED THE MUSEUM AT $2500 TO $9999

DONORS WHO SUPPORTED THE MUSEUM AT $200 TO $499

Photography by: David A. Candlena, Ruby Foote, Loyd C. Heath, and Sarah Hefner

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