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The Barns of Rose Hill wins $237,000 VDOT Transportation Enhancement Program Grant

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The Barns of Rose Hill to Hold Community Meeting
Project Update April 14, Enders Fire Co. Social Hall

March 2008 - The Barns of Rose Hill will hold an open meeting to report on the status of the campaign to restore two barns in
Berryville’s Rose Hill Park for service as a community and arts center.

The meeting will be at the Enders Fire Company Social Hall, 9 S. Buckmarsh Street in Berryville, 7:30-8:30 PM on
Monday, April 14. The presentation will cover the fundraising campaign, the prospect of “going green” in construction
techniques and a projected timetable for groundbreaking. Refreshments will be served

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Clarke County Supervisors appropriate $150,000 to Barns campaign!

December 2007 - On December 18, the Clarke County Supervisors voted a grant of $100,000 to the Barns campaign,
with an additional $50,000 available on a matching basis. The funds will be transferred to the Barns when total funds
raised reaches $1.35 million, or $150,000 short of the $1.5  million total goal.

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New Grants Awarded to Barns of Rose Hill Total $4,300
Freedom Forum, Target and District Rotary Club Support Grass-Roots Project

September 2007 - The Barns of Rose Hill has received grants from three organizations in support of the project to restore
two barns in Berryville’s Rose Hill Park for service as a community and arts center. The Freedom Forum, an Arlington,
VA-based,  nonpartisan international foundation advocating free press and speech rights, has awarded a $2,500 grant to the
Barns capital campaign fund. The Target Foundation’s $1,000 grant will help to cover costs associated with the master
storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann’s program “Steadfast and Spirited: Stories of the American Revolution”, performed for Clarke
County students September 17 and 18. And the Barns is pleased to announce a second matching grant award from the
District Rotary organization for needed audio-visual and office equipment to enable the Barns to carry out its programming
for  the community, bringing to some $4,000 awarded the Barns by the District Rotary matching grant program.

The Barns of Rose Hill has raised $900,000 towards its $1.5 million campaign goal. Barn-raising donations are most
welcome and gratefully accepted, and may be in the form of cash gifts, stock equities, estate or planned giving, or
gifts-in-kind. Contact The Barns for more information at 955-7093 in Berryville.

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August 2007 - The Barns has won an $850 District Rotary Matching Grant for the purchase of audio-visual equipment and
office equipment. This is in addition to a $2700 District Rotary Matching Grant awarded to the Barns project last year for
essential operating equipment as well. The Clarke County Rotary Club has pledged $25,000 to support this grass-roots
community effort to create a community and arts center for Berryville, Clarke County and the Valley.

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$100,000 VDOT GRANT FOR VISITOR CENTER IN THE BARNS

July 1, 2007 - The Barns of Rose Hill project has been awarded a $100,000 Transportation Enhancement Program (TEP) grant
from the Virginia Department of Transportation. The proposal to VDOT through the Town of Berryville, owners of the barns
in Rose Hill Park, includes the creation of a Berryville-Clarke County Visitor Center to be housed in a designated “lobby”
area of the lower level of the Barns facility. The Visitor Center, to be certified through the Virginia Tourism Corporation, will
provide information about area tourist services such as restaurants, historic sites and lodging, maps, brochures and restroom
facilities for visitors to Berryville and Clarke County.  The TEP grant brings the Capital Campaign to nearly $940,000.

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2007 AUCTION GALA NETS NEARLY $30,000 FOR THE BARNS CAPITAL CAMPAIGN

The June 16 “Night at the Mill” for The Barns of Rose Hill Silent and Live Auction Dinner Gala was the scene for a great
deal of fun and a lot of lively bidding on the more than 150 auction items on offer. More than 100 guests turned out to enjoy
an evening of perfect weather and fine food and drink in support of the Barns effort. The happy result:  Nearly $30,000 added
to the campaign fund!  Many thanks to those who donated auction items, to the many volunteers who helped in so many
ways, to Snow Fielding and Roger Chavez for opening their Mill to the Barns, and to the guests who came out for the event.
Together, we’re raising the Barns to the Shenandoah skies!

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THE BARNS OF ROSE HILL RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE PHILIP L. GRAHAM FUND

In December of 2006, The Barns of Rose Hill was awarded a $25,000 grant by the Philip L. Graham Fund. The Fund,
based in Washington, DC, is affiliated with The Washington Post and supports community development projects in the
arts and humanities. The grant award brings to nearly $700,000 the amount raised thus far in the $1.5 million capital
campaign to restore two early-20th-century barns in Rose Hill Park for service as a community and arts center for Berryville,
Clarke County and the northern Virginia area.

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THE BARNS OF ROSE HILL RECEIVES GRANTS FROM CLARKE COUNTY AND DISTRICT ROTARY CLUBS

The Barns of Rose Hill has received two grants from Rotary International. The Clarke County Rotary Club recently donated
$3,200 for the Barns capital campaign to restore the two aged barns in Berryville’s Rose Hill Park for service as a community
and arts center. The Clarke Club has pledged $25,000 for the community-based project, and the recent grant brought to
$8,200 its support for the Barns effort.  The Clarke Rotary also worked with the Barns to apply for a matching District Rotary
grant, which was awarded in the amount of $2,700, to be applied toward the purchase of needed sound and office equipment.

The District letter of notification came from J. Ronald Ferrill, Chair of the District Foundation Grants Committee to
Steve Brown, President of the Clarke County Rotary Club. Mr. Ferrill commented that "The committee is impressed
with the object and scope of the project to be of benefit to the citizens of your community. This is in keeping with the
intent of the Rotary Foundation District Simplified Grants program."

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Program Grants Awarded: Both the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Marion Park Lewis Foundation of the
Shenandoah Arts Council recognized The Barns of Rose Hill in the spring of 2006 through program grants. VCA’s
grants provided funding for a poetry workshop and a computer, and the Marion Park Lewis Foundation grants will
support the playwriting workshop in July and the Kate Campbell Stevenson theater performance at the Johnson
Williams Middle School
in September.

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Cochran Lumber and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Byrd, III, donate reclaimed barn wood for Barns construction.  Cochran’s wood
reclamation team has disassembled an aged barn belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Byrd, who donated the old building to the
Barns project. According to Jim Burton of Carter+Burton, project architect, much of the oak and pine boarding and
beams can be integrated into the Barns facility.  A gift to The Barns of Rose Hill that brings some of the county’s apple
production heritage to the project.

Mr. Dennis Ridings of Irongate has volunteered to provide time and materials toward the new steel infrastructure
for the barns restoration, a generous and wonderful contribution that will help to bring this important public facility
 to the community.
 

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The Winchester Star - 12/13/2005
BERRYVILLE — The federal government has given a $250,000 boost to help fund conversion of two 1920s dairy barns into
an arts and culture community center.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (left), R-10th, talks with Diana Kincannon, president of Barns of Rose Hill, about the barns project. Wolf announced $250,000 in federal funding. (Photo by Rick Foster)

  U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-10th, visited Berryville Monday afternoon to
   announce  the funding, which doubled the amount raised so far for the project
  by The Barns of Rose Hill Inc., a nonprofit organization.   The federal funds,
  appropriated last month, brought the total raised to almost $500,000, one-third
  of the money needed for the renovation.

  “This project will help fill a need in the community,” Wolf told 30 town and
  Clarke County officials and members of the nonprofit’s board of directors
  gathered in the Berryville Town Council Chambers. “It will serve all ages, from  
  teenagers to seniors, and provide the community with adequate space to hold  
  meetings and other cultural events.”

  The money was included in the fiscal year 2006 Transportation-Treasury-
  Housing Appropriations conference report President Bush signed into law last
  month.  The nonprofit group needs $1.5 million to restore the two dairy barns
and convert them into a community center. The group has received almost $250,000 in pledged donations for the project,
said Diana Kincannon, president of The Barns of Rose Hill Inc.

“This is a very important development for this project and this community,” Kincannon told the group Monday.

Carter + Burton Architecture PLC has designed the renovation of the two barns, which will include a glass lobby connecting
the buildings. The nonprofit organization hopes the center will preserve the county’s agrarian heritage while providing a
vibrant gathering space for the whole community.   The barns will be designed to accommodate a variety of venues,
including a presentation hall, film center, a showcase for regional artists’ work, a coffeehouse for teenagers, a social hall
for seniors, workshop space, and an area for theatre and storytelling.

“This will be a flexible, multi-use facility,” Kincannon said.

The Smithy family donated the dairy barns to Berryville in 1964 to create an educational and recreational center in town.
Downtown Berryville Inc. started raising money for the renovation project five years ago, but the Barns of Rose Hill Inc.
broke off last year to concentrate on fund-raising.  The nonprofit’s board members hope to open the center by fall 2007 to
 coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, America’s first permanent settlement.  “[It will] provide
a space where we will be able to preserve our history, remember our history, present our history to the newcomers in this
town,” Kincannon said, “and carry us forward and provide a place to celebrate our lives and our small-town culture here
 in Clarke County.”
 

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