Nominations now being accepted! Click the link below to download a copy of the Award Nomination Form: 2012 Preservation Awards Nomination Form (8.5″ x 14″)

Mrs. Holley Jaakkola, winner of the 2011 Nichola Parker Coe Volunteer of the Year Award with Mr. Juha Jaakkola

Each year, Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) celebrates the best of preservation by presenting Preservation Awards to individuals and organizations whose contributions demonstrate outstanding excellence in historic preservation.

HSF invites you to participate by nominating individuals and organizations you believe are most deserving of these honors. The award winners will be announced at HSF’s Preservation Awards Luncheon on May 10, 2012.

Nominations are open only to HSF members. If you would like to submit a nomination but are not a member of HSF, please click here to receive membership information.

To download a copy of the nomination form and view more information on submittal criteria click here.

Award Categories

Restoration

Awarded for or to restoration projects that allow for the depiction of a building at a particular time in its history by preserving materials from the period of significance and removing material from other periods.

Rehabilitation

Awarded for or to rehabilitation projects that acknowledge the need to alter or add to a historic property to meet continuing or new uses while retaining the building’s historic character. Adaptive use would fall under this category.

New Construction

Awarded for or to new construction projects that are visually compatible in height, mass, scale and materials with the surrounding historic buildings within the immediate context.

Stewardship

Awarded to an individual or organization which has consistently and carefully maintained and enhanced a historic site or monument in Savannah or Chatham County.

Craftsmanship

Awarded to an individual who has mastered a building arts trade that has enhanced the practice of preservation in Savannah or Chatham County.

Archaeology

Awarded to an individual or organization who follows the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for Archeology on major projects in Savannah and the surrounding historic areas.

Judging Criteria

Outstanding projects will have generally followed the applicable Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring or Reconstructing historic buildings. Click here for more information.

Preservation Awards are judged for the success they have achieved in the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and interpretation of our architectural and cultural heritage. The general evaluation criteria include:

• Quality and degree of difficulty of the nominee’s project or effort
• Degree to which the nominee’s project or effort is unusual or pioneering, or serves as an example that influences good preservation practices in others
• Demonstrable impact of nominee’s project or effort on the community

A jury of local professionals is invited each year to review nominations for HSF’s Preservation Awards. Although the composition of the jury changes from year to year, Historic Savannah Foundation strives to achieve balanced representation from the related disciplines of architecture, preservation and planning.

Nominated projects must have been completed within the past three years. Nominations submitted in previous years that were not selected to receive an award may be revised, expanded, and resubmitted.  Nominations may be made without the knowledge of the nominee.  Self-nominations will be accepted.  HSF projects, Trustees, and staff are not eligible to receive a Preservation Award for individual achievement during the period of their active service and for three years thereafter.