Last night, Baltimore Heritage had its annual Preservation Celebration! We handed out 13 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 Pitamore and drank wine from Spirits of Mt. Vernon! Thank you to everyone attended.
Award Winners
Volunteer of the Year: Pat Hawthorne
For years of dedication to Baltimore’s historic places
Afro Charities
For 60 years of preserving the Afro American Newspaper’s history
Raymond Bahr
For bringing the history of Canton to light
BGE Gas Regulator Fighters
For fighting for Baltimore’s historic neighborhoods
Siobhan Hagan and SHAN Wallace
For bringing Baltimore’s historic moving images and home movies to light
Friends of Herring Run Park
For creating the Heritage Trail at Herring Run Park
The Authors and Editors of A Place for Memory
For a new book on Laurel Cemetery
Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
For promoting the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
E. Evans Paull
For the book Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars
The Friends of the Ship Caulkers’ Houses
For the stabilization and exterior restoration of 612-614 S. Wolfe Street
Cory Ann Adcock-Camp
For the reclamation and restoration of 1810 Barclay Street
Latrobe Building / Ulysses Hotel
For restoration of the historic Latrobe Building into the Ulysses Hotel
Lexington Market
For conserving public market heritage in the new Lexington Market
Pitch Party Winners
$1000: St. Luke’s Youth Center
$1000: Govans Presbyterian Church Racial Justice Ministry
$1000: Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
$500: Friends of Herring Run Park
$500: Baltimore Lab School
$500: Baltimore Crime Museum