The Savings Bank of Danbury is sponsoring Phase III of the rehabilitation of the Charles Ives Home.
Owned by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society, the building at 7 Mountainville Road was the original home of the bank ”“ at 170 years, the oldest continuously operating business in the city ”“ and of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
The total cost of the rehabilitation, over the course of four planned phases, will be approximately $600,000. The project was supported from community fundraising efforts, grant monies through the state of Connecticut, Department of Economic and Community Development, State Historic Preservation office and the City of Danbury, with the Savings Bank of Danbury covering the cost of the third phase.
Plans for the Charles Ives Home include welcoming an artist in residence “to make the exhibit a living entity.” The home will be open to the public upon completion in the late summer/fall of 2020.
“This project is only possible because the Savings Bank of Danbury chose to tell the story of their history through our Danbury Museum,” said Brigid Guertin, Danbury Museum and Historical Society executive director.
