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Lets get to painting the Perkins Art Center in Moorestown

The Perkins Art Center will receive a nice makeover this summer, as the Moorestown facility completed its “Paint Perkins” campaign last week through donations from the Moorestown community.

The campaign was established about a year ago, Special Events and Project Manager Lee Bennett reported, and raised more than $40,210 for the project.

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“A big thank you goes out to our community, whose generosity to our Paint Perkins! campaign over the past year will allow the painting of our beautiful building to begin in late spring,” Bennett wrote in a press release. “Thanks to a generous last push from our board and staff, we have been able to move forward on the project; a historic paint analysis was recently completed and we are proceeding with bids from four local painting companies.”

The money will be used for the historic paint analysis, several minor repairs to the building, a complete strip job of the old paint, and then the actual painting itself. Bennett said the center’s main facility and its carriage house would receive the work.

“We want to be true to the building’s history. We found out what it looked like in the past and we want to be as accurate as possible,” Bennett said, explaining the need for a historic paint analysis.

Bids for the work have been made public and the project will likely start in the late spring, Bennett said.

The center received $15,000 from a grant from The 1772 Foundation, $10,000 from Holman Automotive, $5,000 from the Moorestown Lunch Rotary, $1,000 from Capehart and Scatchard, P.A. and $1,000 from the Moorestown Business Association, Bennett said.

The remaining donations were from the Moorestown community, she said.

Throughout the campaign, Perkins center representatives said repainting the center’s 1910 Tudor Revival main house and 1930 Craftsman Style carriage house was critical to preserving the historically important buildings on the campus and to the continuation of the important work that goes on inside.

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