After the Library Services Act was revamped in 1964, federal dollars also went toward library buildings - the final construction grant was awarded in 1998.

The state has given the museum a $22 million construction grant and board members and volunteers have raised more than $15 million.

The construction grant of $10,000 was approved March 10, 1907, and it was dedicated as The Carnegie Library of The Dalles in September 1910.

By this time, spring of 1990, the library board applied for a construction grant from the Illinois State Library.

The amount required in the 1963 law was 10 percent of the original construction grant in services each year, an amount that now amounts to very little after almost three decades of inflation.

Since then, with the Victoria and Albert now close to seeking planning permission and a construction grant from National Lottery profits, Mr. Libeskind's design has won growing acceptance.

In 1993, the Museum opened its campaign office and acquired a bank loan to complement a construction grant from the State of Florida Cultural Facilities Program.

A Federal construction grant paid 90 percent of the $9.8 million initial captial cost of the Middle Township facility.

In 1999, the foundation received a construction grant from the Donald W. Reynolds foundation to build a non-profit foundation center.

The city gave the land and, with the state, a construction grant.