Become a Friend

The Coleman is still standing because people here paid for it.

The Friends of the Coleman are volunteers. Since 1990, members have bought the paint, hauled the Wurlitzer home from Texas, and put the chandelier back where it belonged. Joining is how that work continues.

— One hundred years on April 18, 2029 —

What a membership does

Where the money goes

The Friends are volunteers. The only person on the payroll is a part-time archivist, contracted to digitize the collection. Everything else goes into the building and what is in it.

Keeps the building standing

Plaster, wiring, roof and paint — the unglamorous work a 1929 building needs before it needs anything else.

Funds the next restoration

Every project the Friends have finished began as a line in a budget that members paid for.

Preserves the record

Programs, photographs, ledgers and oral histories, catalogued and kept so the story does not leave with the people who remember it.

Membership

Choose a level

Memberships run twelve months from the day you join. The Friends of the Coleman is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit; gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Annual

Individual

$25 a year

One person.

Family

$50 a year

One household, however many of you there are.

Business

$250 a year

For local businesses backing the restoration.

Monthly

The Fishbowl

$11 a month

Named for the fishbowl on the counter in 1990, when eleven dollars bought a can of paint. Monthly giving is the steadiest money the Friends have.

Member benefits at each level are being finalized by the board.

Join the Friends

Not ready to join?

A one-time gift does the same work.