Last Thursday, October 10, Baltimore Heritage had its annual Preservation Celebration at Hollins Market! We handed out 12 awards to groups and individuals doing fabulous work celebrating and preserving our city’s history and buildings. We gave out 6 micro-grants to 6 very worthy community projects. We conducted our organization’s annual meeting and welcomed a few new board members. And we said a big thank you to our wonderful volunteers. They make historic preservation possible in Baltimore. All the while, we ate delicious food from Hollins Market and drank wine from Spirits of Mt. Vernon! Thank you to everyone attended.

 

Award Winners

Volunteer of the Year: Linda Snyder

For leading countless public and private tours

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Beloved Community Services Corporation

For the restoration of the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center (PS 103)

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Dr. Ashley Minner Jones, the Native American Senior Citizens,

and the Baltimore Reservation Project

For promoting Lumbee American Indian heritage in East Baltimore

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Bruce Willen

For the Ghost Rivers public art and history project

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Dr. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson

For the exhibit, Ethel’s Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz

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Upton Planning Council and Pennsylvania Avenue Main Street

For the renovation of 1829 Pennsylvania Avenue for the Pennsylvania Avenue Welcome Center

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Shelley Halstead & Black Women Build

For work to rehab houses and build community in West Baltimore

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Christina Delgado

For establishing Tola’s Room, a Puerto Rican home museum

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Betty Bland Thomas

For decades of work to preserve heritage in Sharp Leadenhall

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Baltimore Museum of Industry

For the exhibit, Collective Action: Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore

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James Ruttley and Kathleen Lechleighter

For the restoration of 1209 Calvert Street

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Douglas Gordon Award: Charlie Duff

For a lifetime of work in historic preservation

 

Pitch Party Winners

$2000: Corner Team Boxing Club

Funds will support Phase 1 of the Joe Gans Monument project, which will pay the sculptor to design and fabricate a maquette of the statue 

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$1000: Evolving Young Girls Mentoring Organization

Funds will support the Baltimore’s Hidden Treasures: Youth Preservation Workshop

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$1000: Friends of St. Peter’s Cemetery

Funds will support the restoration of St. Peter’s Cemetery in partnership with the PRINCE Program, which trains incarcerated citizens in cemetery preservation 

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$500: Friends of Patterson Park’

Funds will support a videographer to create a video of the interior of the Observatory for virtual access

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$500: Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

Funds will support the restoration of the brick pathway

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$500: Pride of Baltimore

Funds will support replacement of the ship’s planks