Category: Preservation Awards

Join us to celebrate preservation in Baltimore at our Awards Celebration this Thursday

If you haven’t purchased tickets yet for our 2015 Preservation Awards celebration this Thursday June 18, now is the time! We are celebrating the year’s best preservation and adaptive reuse projects and the people behind them. We are also excited to give the Douglas Gordon Award for exceptional leadership in local preservation to Mr. Martin Azola. Read on for the full list of award winning projects!

In addition to being in the wonderfully transformed Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater, we’ll get a tour of the historic Merchant’s Club building next door that the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company plans to expand into. And of course there will be plenty of food, drinks, and good cheer.

The Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater is located at 7 South Calvert Street, at the corner of Redwood Street. Parking is available one block away at the Arrow parking garage on Water Street. Garage entrances are located on Water Street and Lombard Street. Find more details or go ahead and register today!

I hope you can join us on Thursday evening. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call me at 410-332-9992 or email me at hopkins@baltimoreheritage.org.

2015 Preservation Award Recipients

Restoration & Rehabilitation

Frazier Residence
424 South Dallas Street

Rita Church Community Center
2101 Saint Lo Drive

Interior view of the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University.
Interior view of the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University.

Welch Medical Library
1900 East Monument Street

939 South Clinton Street

1226 North Calvert Street

1418 Madison Avenue

Adaptive Reuse & Compatible Design

Interview view of The Algonquin, 11 East Chase Street.
Interview view of The Algonquin, 11 East Chase Street.

The Algonquin
11 East Chase Street

Bolton Hill Nursery School
204 West Lanvale Street

Exterior view of the Bolton Hill Nursery School.
Exterior view of the Bolton Hill Nursery School.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater
7 South Calvert Street

Columbus School Apartments
2000 East North Avenue

Front view of the Columbus School. Courtesy Cho Benn Holback.
Front view of the Columbus School. Courtesy Cho Benn Holback.

Exterior view of the Fallsway Spring building.

Exterior view of the Fallsway Spring building.

Fallsway Spring
415 South Central Avenue

Police Station at Fells Point Station
1621 Bank Street

The Lenore
114 East Lexington Street

300 Cathedral Street Apartments
300 Cathedral Street

520 Park
520 Park Avenue

1001 Cathedral
1001 Cathedral Street

1801 Falls Road

Heritage Preservation Awards

Downtown Baltimore Landmark Designation Initiative

Elaine Eff and the Painted Screens of Baltimore

Historic Baltimore Neighborhoods Awards

Gateway Homeownership Development Project

Greater Hampden Heritage Alliance: Self-Guided Walking Tour of Hampden-Woodberry

Douglas Gordon Award

Mr. Martin Azola – for over 40 years of service and leadership in historic preservation.

Join us for the 2015 Preservation Awards at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater

We are thrilled to invite you to Baltimore Heritage’s 2015 Historic Preservation Awards Celebration downtown at the newly renovated Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater. This year we are honoring a wide range of projects: a single family home in Fell’s Point, a nursery school in Bolton Hill, a former police station, and the Shakespeare Theater itself. We’re also honoring incredible work by individuals, including Ms. Elaine Eff for her work on Baltimore painted screens and Mr. Martin Azola for his lifetime’s work restoring historic buildings in Baltimore.

The celebration will take place on Thursday, June 18, 2015 beginning at 5:30 pm. In addition to seeing the fantastic work inside the Shakespeare Theater, we will take a peek next door at the historic Merchant’s Club building that the theater is planning to occupy. There will be plenty of good food and drink, and lots to celebrate.

Find more details on our event page or sign up today! I hope you can join us.

Make a nomination for our 2015 Preservation Awards

What historic places have you seen restored in your neighborhood in the past year? Are you a home-owner celebrating the end of a jaw-dropping rehabilitation project? Or the architect behind an inspired example of adaptive reuse? We need your help to nominate Baltimore’s best in preservation projects and heritage achievements for our 2015 Historic Preservation Awards.

Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson House, Stairwell
Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson House, 2012 Award Winner

We launched our awards program in 1961 and,over the past fifty years, we have recognized close to 300 projects—everything from the rehabilitation of Seton Hill rowhouses to the amazing effort to save the American Brewery. In 2014, our awards celebration honored sixteen projects reflecting the work of over 100 individuals and local firms.

Take a look at our guidelines for more information about our awards categories and review process. Our nomination form is intended to be simple and easy – requiring only a short narrative about the project or achievement, images (before and after photographs are encouraged for all bricks-and-mortar project), and names and contact information for all project partners. Nominations must be submitted by Friday, March 6, 2015 for consideration by our review committee.

Please submit your nomination today then stay tuned for the details on our annual awards celebration in June!

Photos: 2014 Preservation Awards Celebration at the Baltimore Design School

Thank you to everyone who joined us last month at the Baltimore Design School for our annual Preservation Awards Celebration. Special thanks to Melissa Gerr who volunteered to capture a few great photographs of the evening. Enjoy!

Congratulations to Baltimore’s 2013 Historic Preservation Award Winners!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last month for our 2013 Preservation Awards Celebration at Mill No. 1. We owe a special thanks to our event sponsor PNC Bank and to our host Terra Nova Ventures whose tremendous rehabilitation of the historic Mt. Vernon Mill Company No. 1 was a highlight of the evening.

1009297_10152946930315650_197939040_oEvery year we have the pleasure of honoring a host of projects and individuals for a diverse range of exceptional restorations, thoughtful adaptive reuse projects, and leadership within Baltimore’s preservation community. This year was no different, as we recognized the meticulous restoration of the Basilica of the Assumption, the inspiring rehabilitation of the former David Bachrach House in Reservoir Hill, and the adaptive reuse of the historic Morgan Millwork Company as the MICA Graduate Studio Center. We were especially glad to present Ms. Kathleen Kotarba with the Douglas H. Gordon Award for Lifetime Achievement for over 30 years of service to historic preservation through her work with the Baltimore Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and well beyond.

If you couldn’t join us last month you can find a gallery of photos from the event on Flickr or on our Facebook page. Read on for the full list of award winners and join us in celebrating the businesses and individuals who have contributed to these important accomplishments in historic preservation. Stay tuned for more updates over the summer profiling each award-winning project!

Restoration and Rehabilitation Award

Basilica of the National Shine of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Archdiocese of Baltimore, Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Lewis Contractors, Keast & Hood Company, Alan Gilbert Photography

1515 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Home Rentals, David H. Gleason Associates, Inc.

106 South Gilmore Street
Urban Design

1711 Guilford Avenue
Mr. Umar Moulta-Ali

The Linden House
The Women’s Housing Coalition, Episcopal Housing Corp., K. Lechleiter Architects, Southway Builders, Peristyle LLC, Clifton Company LLC, T&D Plumbing and Heating Co., A-L Abatement, Inc., C.L. McCoy Framing Co., John H. Myer & Son, Inc., Western Cary Building Products, Tri-County Roofing and Sheet Metal, Inc., Chesapeake Siding Contractors, Inc., Walbrook Mill and Lumber, Zeskind’s Hardware and Millwork, Shenandoah Sash and Door, Inc., Carpentry & Hardware Services, Inc., Novo Construction, Healthy Neighborhoods

400 Block of East Oliver Street
TRF Development Partners, O’Connell and Associates

St. Mary’s Chapel at Paca Street
Associated Sulpicians of the United States, Kann Partners, Lewis Contractors, Thomas Moore Studios, Giorgini Construction

Adaptive Reuse and Compatible Design Award

Everyman Theater
Everyman Theater, Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Lewis Contractors, Theatre Projects Consultants, James Posey Associates, Inc., Keast & Hood Company, Gower Thompson, Shen Milsom Wilke, Inc., Dunlop Lighting Design, Alan Gilbert Photography

MICA Graduate Studio Center
Maryland Institute College of Art, Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Whiting Turner, James Posey Associates, Morabito Consultants, Gower Thompson, Lazarus Design Associates

Heritage Preservation Award

Monsignor Arthur W. Bastress
For the preservation and stewardship of St. Alphonsus Church

Douglas H. Gordon Award

Ms. Kathleen Kotarba
For over thirty years of service and leadership for historic preservation in Baltimore

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