Preserve Arkansas is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Arkansas Preservation Awards. Award winners will be honored at a ceremony and dinner in Little Rock in January 2020. Each year, the Arkansas Preservation Awards honor outstanding preservation achievements, people who make a difference in their communities, and projects that inspire others to protect Arkansas’s special historic places.
Nominations will be accepted in thirteen categories. Individual awards will recognize leading craftspeople, homeowners, volunteers, and professionals for their work. Themed awards will salute outstanding education and advocacy initiatives, community programs, and dedicated stewardship. Project awards will honor the restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of buildings and sites and compatible design in historic areas. Past honorees include architects, carpenters, and community leaders; museums, advocacy organizations, and neighborhood groups; and restorations and rehabilitation of historic schools, office buildings, post offices, courthouses, and bridges.
Parker Westbrook Award for Lifetime Achievement
Award: Anthony Taylor and Bob Kempkes, Taylor/Kempkes Architects, Hot Springs
Excellence in Heritage Preservation
Award: Ginger Sandy
For “Cedar Grove/Mobley Historical Preservation” Facebook page
Excellence in Preservation through Rehabilitation
Award: Des Arc Public Library (Historic First Presbyterian Church), Des Arc
Owner: Prairie County
Architect: Robert M. Schelle Architects
Award: Griffin Auto Company Building, El Dorado
Owner: El Dorado Festivals & Events
Architect: DLR Group
Contractor: Nabholz Construction
Award: ScholarMade Achievement Place, Ivy Hill Academy of Scholarship (Historic James Mitchell School), Little Rock
Owner: ScholarMade Achievement Place
Architect: Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson, Inc., Architects
Contractor: Clark Contractors, LLC
Excellence in Preservation through Restoration
Award: Brunson House, Historic Washington State Park
Owner: Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism
Architect: WER Architects/Planners
Award: Methodist Manse, Cane Hill
Owner: Historic Cane Hill, Inc.
Architect: WER Architects/Planners
Contractor: Kinco Constructors
Award: Shiloh Meeting Hall, Springdale
Owner: Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, City of Springdale
Architect: Clements & Associates/Architecture, Inc.
Contractor: Cameron Construction
Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education
Award: University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design, Department of Landscape Architecture
For the “Rising Above – Rohwer Reconstructed: Interpreting Place through Experience” website
Additional collaborators on the “Rohwer Reconstructed” project include the Arkansas State Archives, Arkansas State University, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture, University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, and Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Library.
Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Advocacy
Award: U.S. Congressman Bruce Westerman, Representing Arkansas’s 4th District, for his efforts to save the Federal Historic Tax Credit during tax reform
Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication
Award: University of Arkansas Press
For “It’s All Done Gone”: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943
By Patsy G. Watkins
Excellence in Personal Projects
Commercial: Mary Ann Lee, Indigo Blue Coffeehouse, Pine Bluff
Residential: Greg Gallagher, 1919 Beech Street, Texarkana
Honorable Mention: Cecil and Denise Ennett, Kleinschmidt House, Little Rock
Courtney C. Crouch, Jr. and Brenda Crouch
Friends of “Rising Above – Rohwer Reconstructed” website
Carl H. Miller, Jr.
Ted and Leslie Belden
Porter Briggs
Courtney C. Crouch, III and Amber Crouch
Hon. John C. Edwards
Rep. David Hillman
JAMESON Architects, PA
Timothy W. Maddox, AIA
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, PLLC
Justice and Mrs. David Newbern
Mark and Cheri Nichols
Soos Stained Glass
Stone’s Throw Brewing
Taylor/Kempkes Architects
WD&D Architects
