Award Recipiants
2011
Marian & Leon Despres
Preservation Award
The Willard Gidwitz House
designed by architect Ralph Rapson in 1947
Leon and Rian Walker, owners
For their historic rehabilitation project
2011 Paul Cornell Awards
Hyde Park Herald Archive
Alex Sagan
Paul Sagan
Bruce Sagan, PUBLISHER
For placing the Hyde Park Herald digital archive online
Special Collections Research
Center
of the Joseph Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago
Eileen Ielmini
Head Processing Archivist
Maija Anderson
Former Processing Archivist, now with the Oregon Health and
Sciences University Historical Collections & Archives,
Portland Oregon
Daniel Meyer
Associate Director and University Archivist
For preserving the Hyde Park Historical Society Archives
2011 Jean Block Award
Rebecca Janowitz
For her book, Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago:
The People, Politics and the Ideas of Hyde Park
Past Marian
& Leon Despres Preservation Awards
2005
Marian & Leon Despres
-- for their leadership in establishing the Chicago
architectural
preservation movement
2006
The Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church
The Coalition to Save the Met
for saving the historic
Metropolitan Community Church building
The University of Chicago
The Save I-House Committee
--
for saving and rehabilitating the historic International House
building
ShoreBank
NEWCO-RFPC
-- for rehabilitating the historic South Side Savings and Loan
building
2007
The Kenwood Open House Committee
The South East Chicago Commission
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks
-- for establishing the Kenwood Landmark District in 1979
2008
The Medical Center of the University of Chicago
-- for the preservation of the American School of Correspondence
building and for the restoration of its lobby and front elevation
Danny Aucunas
-- for the restoration of the Vierling House, 4914 S. Greenwood
2009
University of Chicago Law
School
-- for the rehabilitation of the Laird Bell Law School Quadrangle
Lisa and Nate Eimer
-- for the restoration of the Frankenthal House, 4825 S. Woodlawn
2010
Chicago Public Library
PARMA Conservation
--for the conservation and restoration of the historic murals at
the Chicago Public Library Blackstone Branch
Stacy Stewart
Ishmael Smith
Bryanna Stalling
--for advocacy of the Carl Hansberry House as a Chicago Landmark
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