Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will use its grant to restore a Hall from the Robert Hooper House (ca. 1754) to its original pre-Revolutionary interior. When completed, the room will be the only American period room in the museum's newly renovated American art galleries and one of the best surviving pre-Revolutionary interiors in the United States. Lieutenant-General Gage, the British Commander-in-Chief, used Hooper's home as headquarters before the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775.