New Haven, Conn. (March 12, 2025) – America 250 | CT Museum Makeover will award the New Haven Museum (NHM) a $4,000 grant to create permanent, outdoor exhibit signage highlighting the Elm City’s revolutionary past at the historic Pardee-Morris House (PMH) which the museum has owned and operated seasonally since 1918. Listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places, PMH is the only historic house open to the public in New Haven that interprets the American Revolution.
With the approach of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the America 250 | CT Museum Makeover is a grant program designed to help cultural organizations tell new and distinctive stories about the American Revolution and how the themes of the Revolution reverberate through the nation’s history. America 250 | CT Museum Makeover is a program of Conservation ConneCTion and the America 250 | CT state commission, administered by CT Humanities (CTH), with funding provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature.
“The Pardee-Morris House is pivotal to understanding nearly 400 years of New Haven’s history,” says New Haven Museum Executive Director Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky. “The Museum Makeover grant will enhance our efforts to interpret this historic property, which was significant to the American Revolution and to the development of the East Shore and Morris Cove, the neighborhood that later grew up around it.”
The outdoor exhibit sign will tell the story of the development of the East Shore through seven Morris generations, from the colonial era and the 1779 British invasion to today. The interpretation will incorporate the stories of the Quinnipiacs, enslaved, working class, and women. One or more QR codes on the sign will link to the PMH page on the museum website, providing information about programs and tours so the public can plan a visit or explore the history of the house and the surrounding area on their own.
Tockarshewsky envisions greater awareness of PMH with the creation of the exhibit signage. “Shoreline families, heritage seekers, and tourists will be able to easily identify and understand the site. Passersby—while riding the bus, biking, or walking to the nearby Lighthouse Point Park and beach—will notice the property and be inspired to visit.”
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