2003 Preservation Awards - Winners Announced!

At the 27th annual Preservation Awards ceremony held Thursday, September 18, at the new Downtown Elementary School, the first new school to be located in Downtown Memphis in over a century, Memphis Heritage Inc. and the Memphis Landmarks Commission saluted the exemplary preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation efforts of the saviours of Memphis' historic homes, commercial buildings, and historic sites. 

The honorees in each category are listed below.  For more information and pictures of the winning entries, click here:

• The Mayor's This Old House Award, for restoration or rehabilitation of a private historic home: 308 Stonewall, owned and rehabilitated by Gil and Becky Callaway, Level Construction.

• Residential Rehabilitation Award, for the restoration or rehabilitation of a building or group of buildings for multi-family residential use including the adaptive re-use of commercial or industrial buildings for residential use:  F.G. Barton Cotton Co. Building, 115 S. Front, developed by Matthews Brothers Development Co., design by Architecture Inc., contracting by Barnett-Naylor Construction Services Group.

• Paul Gruenberg Commercial Rehabilitation Award, for the preservation, rehabilitation or restoration of a commercial building, including adaptive re-use of buildings for commercial use:  Ericson Group Offices, 400 N. Front, developed by Ericson and Associates LLC, design by Architecture Inc.; Certificate of Merit: Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc. for Exchange City, 307 Madison, design by Hnedak Bobo Group, contracting by Linkous Construction.

• Institutional/Public Building Rehabilitation Award, for the preservation, rehabilitation or restoration of a museum, church, synagogue, school or government building or the adaptive reuse of commercial or industrial buildings for one of these purposes:  Power House, 45 G.E. Patterson, owned by MATA and The Alexander Co., occupied by Delta Axis, design by building studio, construction by Construction Management Plus.

• New Construction Award - commercial project, for compatible new construction in a historic context: Soulsville, 870 E. McLemore, design by Looney Ricks Kiss Architects in association with Self Tucker Architects, construction by Flintco.

• New Construction - residential project:  Evergreen Place, North Willett and Lake Place, developed by Hansom Homes Inc. and The Cowles Co., design by Lavelle Walker.

• Compatible Addition Award, honoring the compatible addition to a historic building: 1565 Central, owned by Kenny and Laura Charbonnet, design by John Griffin, construction by Garland Sullivan; Certificate of Merit: Stan and Rosalie Gibson, architect Andy Morton and contractor Jim Box for rear addition to the Gibsons' home, 1900 Vinton.

• Special Achievement Award, for excellence in: engineering relating to the preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration of a structure; or, the investigation of archeological sites; or, a specific noteworthy component of a restoration project: FedExForum site archeological investigation, undertaken by New Memphis Arena Public Building Authority, archeology by Weaver and Associates LLC.

• Memphis Heritage Kay Newman Award, honoring volunteer preservation activities: preservation consultant, John Griffin.

• Memphis Heritage A.W. Willis Award, honoring professional preservation activities: Memphis Housing Director, Robert Lipscomb.