To recognize the people, associations, and businesses helping save the landmark buildings and places that make St. Petersburg special, St. Petersburg Preservation offers Preservation Awards.

Craftsman House Gallery & Cafe, in the Grand Central District of St. Petersburg, FL.
The 1918 original model home of the Historic Kenwood neighborhood.

The Preservation Awards honor work on local buildings that are 50+ years old and new construction that’s built to blend with neighboring older structures. 

Nomination forms for the 2010 Preservation Awards are now being accepted.  There are six award categories:

Residential and Commercial Restoration
Awards in these categories recognize exemplary restoration of historic buildings that allow for contemporary use.  A restoration project accurately returns a building to an earlier condition and/or appearance based on historical or physical evidence.  Compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the treatment of historic properties will be considered although is not mandatory to be eligible for an award.

Residential and Commercial Rehabilitation
Awards in this category recognize exemplary rehabilitation of historic buildings.  A rehabilitation project preserves significant features of a building that convey its historic value, including historic changes, while making possible an efficient contemporary use for the building.

Compatible Use
Awards in this category recognize a contemporarily designed or new building that exemplifies the building’s compatibility with that of an adjacent or nearby historic structure, including consideration of the scale and style of the new building, the materials used in its construction and the overall appearance of the new structure in relation to the historic building.  The new building need not mimic the detail of the historic building in order to be eligible for this award.

Adaptive Reuse
Awards in this category recognize exemplary adaptive reuse of historic buildings.  Adaptive reuse preserves some of the significant features of the historic building although not to the extent to consider the building as having been rehabilitated and allows for a contemporary use of the historic building.

Residential and Commercial Stewardship
Awards in this category are presented to long term owners of property who are ensuring the preservation of historic structures or other features of a property through care and maintenance, stabilization or their protection of the historic structure or feature.

Preservationist of the Year
This award may be given to a St. Petersburg resident or local group who has demonstrated exemplary and sustained activities in promoting the preservation of historic structures in St. Petersburg or in promoting awareness in the field of historic preservation.  While the focus of the award is on local action the work of the individual or group on a state or national level may also be considered.

To nominate a person or place for an award please download a printable nomination form and submit it via postal mail to St. Petersburg Preservation, P.O. Box 838, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.  The deadline for receiving nomination submissions is September 24, 2010.  Thank you!

The 2010 Preservation Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday evening, October 19, 2010 at the Mirror Lake Lyceum.

2008 Preservation Awards

2004 Preservation Awards