Plans for a Memorial to Honor Nikola Tesla

Maxine Hicks for The New York Times

Nicola Tesla's decaying laboratory, known as Wardenclyffe, on Long Island in 2009.

Supporters of Nikola Tesla, who lighted the planet with alternating current but died penniless, announced on Thursday that they had completed the purchase of his decaying laboratory on Long Island and begun raising $10 million for its restoration and the establishment of a museum and educational memorial.

The overgrown 16-acre site in Shoreham, N.Y., known as Wardenclyffe, features the inventor's only surviving workshop, built in the early 1900s. The crumbling brick laboratory was designed by Stanford White, a celebrated architect and friend of Tesla's who planned the Washington Arch in Greenwich Village and the Century Club in midtown.

Tesla, a tall man of epic quirks and eccentricities, died in 1943 at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan. Ever since, his backers have waged a campaign to raise his historical standing.

Last October, the Agfa Corporation, which owns the heavily wooded site on Long Island and once operated a factory there, agreed to sell the estate to Tesla admirers for an undisclosed sum after they succeeded in raising $1.4 million through a Web campaign.

The sale is now complete. "This is a major milestone," Gene Genova of the Tesla Science Center said in a statement. "We are very excited to be able to finally set foot on the grounds where Tesla walked and worked." The next step is to raise $10 million for the lab's refurbishment and the creation of a Tesla memorial.

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