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Donate
Thank you for choosing to support our museum.
Donations to the Avery-Copp House Museum are fully tax-deductible and provide support where it is needed most. This vital program provides unrestricted funds for the Museum’s operating budget, which helps to preserve our beautiful property while continuing to offer a broad array of innovative educational programs to our growing audience.
Online: Click here to donate by secure credit card payment.
Mail: Click here for a donation form you can fill out and mail to us at:
Avery-Copp House Museum
154 Thames Street
Groton, CT 06340
Call: (860) 445-1637 and we will mail you a donation form or process your credit card information by phone.
If you regularly shop at Amazon.com, you can make your purchases support the Avery-Copp House! By shopping through Amazon Smile, a portion of your sale is donated to an organization of your choice. The donation comes at no extra cost to you. Click here to begin supporting the Avery-Copp House through Amazon Smile.
Internships
There are various opportunities to intern at the Avery-Copp Museum. If you are a student looking for credit or just looking to gain experience in a museum setting, please contact us at (860) 445-1637 or email Leslie & Kathy.
You make the difference.
When you become a member of the Avery-Copp House Museum, you join a secial group of people who care about Keeping History Alive. Annual membership provides wonderful benefits for you and your family, helps to keep our doors open and supports everything we do to engage the public in learning about history through the study of domestic life as it was experienced in this house and the surrounding community.
There are several ways to become a member:
Mail: Click here for a membership form you can fill out and mail to us.
Online: Click here to become a member by secure credit card payment
Call: (860) 445-1637 and we will mail you a membership form or process your credit card information by phone.
The Avery-Copp House celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut.
Avery-Copp House Museum invites you to our group of dedicated volunteers.
Some volunteer jobs have a public role while others are more behind the scenes. Please consider joining this important group of people who help to make a lasting impression on behalf of the Museum.
A heartfelt Thank You to our supporters!
Foundations & Granting Agencies
Chelsea Groton Foundation
CT Humanities
Panoram Foundation
Robert McLean Foundation
Benefactors ($2,000 +)
Hali & Gerry Keeler
Jim & Irma Streeter
Patrons ($400 – $1,999)
Anonymous
Bruce Avery
Charlotte Barnum & Duncan Olding
George & Gretchen Gauthier
Margie & Jeff Geiger
Tom & Liz Halsey
Andy Halsey
Bill & Amy Havens
Shawn Hoar & Betsy Carnes
Nancy Krant & John Oliva
Priscilla & Tim Wells
Corporate Donors
Briarpatch Enterprises
CorePlus Federal Credit Union
Doherty, Beals & Banks
Essex Marine Group
Monson Button Club
Northstar Wealth Partners
Paul’s Pasta
Rugh Protective Agency
Terra Firma
Waller Smith Palmer, P.C.
Donors ($200 – $399)
Dana & Melisa Avery
Donna Brandelli
Anne & Guido Calabresi
Janet Downs
Brent Eugenides & Robyn Hoffman
William & Lynn Hanson
Susan Jerome
Contributors ($100 – $199)
Tom Althius
Mary Beth Baker
Anne Marie Bartelli
Debbie Bied
Neil & Patty Brown
Emily Casey & Kane Borden
Sarah Clement
Stephen & Karen Colgan
Patricia Copp
Avery & Spencer Dickinson
Lea Doran & Gail Cueto
Frank & Jackwyn Durrschmidt
Martha & Chris Ficke
Mary Fitzgerald
Teresa Hamilton
Ann & Peter Harvey
Keith & Joyce Hedrick
David Ilvento
Tim Jackson
Betsy Copp Lebel & Fredric Lebel
Phyllis & Fred Meyer
Karen & Robert Neild
Cindy Palmer
Penny Parsekian & Geoff Kaufman
David Rose & Shirley Dunbar-Rose
John R. Santacroce
Nancy Steenburg
Debra & Steve Topliff
Abby Van Slyck & Mitchell Favreau
Irene Watson & Norman Dupuis
Friends (under $100)
Peggy Adams
Suzanne Arner
Martine Artale, Jr.
Christine Bartol
Elizabeth Benevento
Dessie & Thomas Birch
Paul Borderi
Cynthia Bosselman
Mike & Germaine Boucher
Katharine Beal Bradford
Kimberly & Cody Brower
Joe Carapoli
Milly Carlson
Joanna Case & Lester Olin
Linda Casey
Mary Lou Cassotto
Robert & Patricia Chalifour
Lorraine Chappell
Jane Clukay
Charlie Coiro
Marilyn Comrie
Peg Criscitiello
Susan Berck Cross
Lauren Daley
Joyce Davis
Antoni DeGregory
Joan Delaney
Meg Dempsey
Connie Dessillier
Debra & Will Dickey
Deborah Donovan
Lauri Donovan
Brian Dumas & Taylor Plunkett
Susan & John Durham
Linda Fox
Rachael E. Franco
David & Theresa Fulton
Susanne Furay
Maureen Gerrish
Todd & Marsha Gipstein
Mark & Patrice Granatosky
Roberta M. Green
Jack Greene
Ellen Grenger & Eric Janney
Jennifer Hale
Myles Halliwell
Robert & Donna Hellmers
Lisa Herzig
Nancy Hileman
Veronica Hoard
Sharon & Stephen Jackson
Candace Copp Jacobs
Cathy & Lance Johnson
Karen A. Johnson
Virginia Johnson
Mary Juillet-Paonessa & Kenneth Paonessa
Justice Kali
Kurt & Ines Kallmeyer
Rick Kane
Themis & Victor Kudrin
Paul & Bernadette Kunkemoeller
Donna LaBranche
Deirdre Lee
Nancy Lozier
Shari Lucas
Jackie & Steve Massett
Francisca E. Matola
Amy Matteson
Gene Medley
Jan A. Miller
Constance Miller
Jane & Kenneth Moriarty
Matt & Karen Morton
Barbara Nagy & Mark Oefinger
Ellen & Horace Newbury
Lisa Noonan
Debby & Dennis O’Brien
Ivan & Naomi Otterness
Betty Pacelle
Mary L. Papenfoth
Lois Peckham
Irene & Vincent Peppito
Bob & Darcy Peruzzotti
Michelle Powell
Joseph & Maureen Prior
Debbie & Bill Pryor
Betty Anne Reiter
Frank & Jacqueline Ricci
Harold Rice
Judith Ricketts-White
Sydney Rogers
Susan Roy
Lila & Peter Schellens
Marie & Arthur Shaw
Diane M. Shields
Sandy & Jim Sinkowski
Lori Slonski & Joshua Geyer
Leslie Smith & Phillip Wellman
Pauline Smith
Gail M. Smith
Ruth Stetson
Carolyn S. Strickland
Barbara Tarbox
Nora & Christopher Taylor
Brett Thompson
Ann Marie Trejo
Lisa Tweed
Linda M. Wagner
Louisa Watrous
Gwendy Watrous
Minda Wetzel
Jamie Whitman
Julie Wilken
June & John Willson
Patricia Wylie
In-Kind Donations
Briarpatch Enterprisees
Chuck Pike Carpentry
City of Groton/Groton Utilities
Karen Neild Accounting
Luther Fence Company
Sicuranza Electric
Streamlined Development
Tom Brown Six
Members
Harry Apicelli (in memoriam)
Martin Artale
Bruce Avery
Dana & Melissa Avery
Charlotte Barnum
Deborah Bied
Jane & Neal Bobruff
Donna Brandelli
Thomas Brown
Loretta Burgos
Joanna M. Case
Emily Casey & Kane Borden
Jane Clukay
Joan Cohn
Patricia Copp
Peggy Criscitiello
Lisa Daley
Joyce Davis
Joan Delaney
Margaret Dempsey
Kristin DeMuzio
Deborah Donovan
Janet Downs
Paul & Elizabeth Duarte
Lynne Ensign
Brent Eugenides & Robyn Hoffman
Leslie Evans
Martha & Chris Ficke
Susanne Furay
George & Gretchen Gauthier
Margie & Jeff Geiger
Jack Greene
Day & Chuck Halsey
Teresa Hamilton
Ann Harvey
Robert & Donna Hellmers
Shawn Hoar & Betsy Carnes
Veronica Hoard
Susan Jerome
Anita Kaiser
Kurt & Ines Kallmeyer
Hali & Gerry Keeler
Kent + Frost
Nancy & John Oliva Krant
Themis & Victor Kudrin
Bernadette Kunkemoeller
Donna LaBranche
Betsy Copp Lebel
Kathy Leuze
Natalie & Brett Livingston
Jane & Kenneth Moriarty
Jeanne Munnelly
Barbara Nagy
North East Forensics
Catherine O’Crowley
Leslie Olding & Laurin Killian
Penny Parsekian & Geoff Kaufman
Paul & Elizabeth Rak
David Rau & Dan Hansen
Betty Anne & Lawrence Reiter
Lynne Rogers
David & Shirley Rose
John Santacroce
Diane M. Shields
Sicuranza Electric, LLC
Leslie Smith & Philip Wellman
Jim & Irma Streeter
Robert Suppicich
Nora & Christopher Taylor
Adria Vail
Louisa Watrous
Irene Watson & Norman Dupuis
Priscilla & Tim Wells