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A collection of fundraising materials for the John G. Riley Foundation and House. The first is a brochure to make donations published by the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board with the assistance of the Florida Department of State and George Firestone, the Secretary of State at the time. The second document is a draft by Geraldine Johnson from 2001 about the kiosk program to fundraise. The final document is a summary of the Riley House and its research project on Leon County African American Education and Rural Schools.
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A list of resources and reference materials for the Riley House Project. It includes accessible materials from the Florida State Archives and Florida State Library. It also includes books and materials from the Riley House Collection and resources you can find in an internet search.
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A collection of documents and records from the Riley House Museum. The first is a contract between the museum and contractors to build display racks. The second is a financial report from the Leon County School Board. The third document is a proposal for an introductory workshop for the preservation of historic African American Cemeteries.
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A variety of newspaper clippings has to do with the John G. Riley House Museum published between 1994-2001. Most of these are related to the museum's opening, which was in 1996, or the developments of the project that started in 1978 when the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board and Florida State Conference of the NAACP were engaged to save the house from being demolished. That year, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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This final part of the early Riley House Project Correspondence contains letters, proposals, and other records relating to the occupation of the John G. Riley House by the John G. Riley Foundation. This includes lease/purchase proposals and occupancy plans by the Foundation to the City of Tallahassee. Moreover, besides correspondence from the early years of occupancy, this folder also contains letters from before that in 1978, when the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board and Florida State Conference of the NAACP were engaged to save the house from being demolished.
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This fourth part of the Riley House Project Correspondence contains three letters relating to the fundraising effort by the John G. Riley House Foundation and the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board in 1983 to help pay off the $85,000 mortgage owed to the city.
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This third part of the Riley House Project Correspondence contains letters, memos, and business records from 1983-2002. After the city agreed to sell the house to the John G. Riley Foundation, they continued to look for funding to also restore the house to its original 19th-century model. This folder includes fundraising pamphlets, letters, and booklets, asking for additional funds that were taken through donations or stocks.
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This second part of the Riley House Project Correspondence contains letters, memos, business documents, and records from 1979-1999. After the addition of the house to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, several members of the NAACP in Tallahassee who formed the John G. Riley Foundation found the necessary financial backing to acquire the Riley House Property from the city. This folder contains mainly correspondence relating to this purchase, the Articles of Incorporation for the then-new John G. Riley Foundation, as well as records and meeting notes from said foundation.
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This first part of the Riley House Project Correspondence contains letters and memos relating to the project from 1977-1979. Though John G. Riley's family lived in the house till 1973, the city bought the property after and planned to build an electrical substation on the site. Most of this correspondence relates to the research made on the site by the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board and the addition of the house to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The correspondence in this folder includes maps of the site, letters relating to the Riley Foundation, letters from and to senators, and other things relating to the Riley House Project to preserve this site.
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A binder containing the proposal of the merger between the Riley House Museum and Tallahassee Community College. It includes a general outline of the John G. Riley House Museum, and towards the end contains more details on the partnership between both institutions.
