The Casements, the historic mansion of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, reopened Thursday in Ormond Beach, following a $1.1 million renovation.The building has been closed since May for the renovation, which included waterproofing the basement, repairs to the first floor framing, the addition of a new patio, and renovation of the interior to make it more historically accurate.
Originally built in 1915, the 5,000-square-foot house was bought by Rockefeller in 1918 and was his winter home. He died at the Casements in 1937 at the age of 97.
The renovations were paid with $645,400 in Ormond Beach city funds and a $467,450 grant from the Volusia ECHO program, a county fund for environmental, cultural, historic or outdoors projects.
The grand re-opening festivities included a free holiday concert by the Moonlighters Swing Band.
The ECHO Grants-in-Aid program of Volusia County is a "bricks-and-mortar" program, providing grant funds to finance acquisition, restoration, construction, or improvement of facilities to be used for environmental/ecological, cultural, historical/heritage, or outdoor recreation purposes that must be open for public use. Projects helped over time have included the Lively Arts Center, trail construction under the county's Trails Master Plan, a performing arts center in Daytona Beach, and many smaller projects throughout the county.
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