Avangrid Foundation Funds Restoration of Famed Nathan Hale Statue
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Avangrid Foundation has awarded a grant to The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to fund the restoration of Enoch Smith Woods’s Nathan Hale (1889), the bronze figure displayed on the Main Street lawn of the museum, located in Hartford, CT. The Foundation’s award of $50,000 will fund the conservation of the slightly-larger-than-life sculpture of the Revolutionary War martyr, perhaps the first such restoration work since its installation in front of the museum in 1894. The grant will also realize a plan to illuminate the
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