Preservation Awards

Springfield Preservation Trust Annual Preservation Awards

The Springfield Preservation Trust Preservation Awards honor the people and organizations that are helping to restore historic structures in Springfield. Every year the Trust showcases exemplary properties that represent the best preservation in Springfield over the previous year. Awardees are presented with a plaque that includes images of their restored home and what they are winner the award for. Preservation awards are commonly given to properties that have restored the historic look of a building by removing inappropriate siding, repairing or replicating original details or generally bringing back a building that was in disrepair.

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	2010 Preservation Awards
	Edward Sims & Paul Kenney Edward Sims Award for Stewardship 179 Clarendon Street In 1894, architect G. Wood Taylor built this outstanding example of a Shingle style home for himself and wife Lillian, daughter of neighborhood developer William McKnight. It was lovingly maintained over the years by Trust supporter Dr. Edward Sims and his partner Paul Kenney. With Ed's death in 2010, the Trust has chosen to inaugurate the Edward Sims Award for Stewardship.
	Bay 252 Realty Trust Restoration Award 252 Bay Street This 1890s Queen Anne home had been neglected for years. it was been renovated inside and out.
	Elija & Lauren Van Steenvoort Restoration Award 37 Parkwood Street This Victorian colonial revival style home was undergone significant exterior renovations
	Sarah Gorski Restoration Award 99 Elliot Street The Queen Anne style house was built in 1887. It has recently undergone complete exterior renovations, including a new roof, carpentry repairs, and a "painted lady" color scheme.
	Community Music School of Springfield Adaptive Reuse Award 127 State Street The Springfield Safety Deposit & Trust had this Art Moderne style building constructed in 1932. It was designed by the Boston firm of Thomas James with an inside mural painted by Carroll Bill. The building ceased being a bank in the 1990s and was purchased by the Community Music School. Its former banking hall been sensitively adapted as the Robyn Newhouse Recital Hall.
	Concerned Citizens for Springfield, Inc. Restoration Award 134 Forest Park Avenue This lovely Arts & Crafts style home, built in 1910, had fallen on hard times. It became owned by an out-of-area person who neglected it and rented by irresponsible tenants who abused it. Foreclosed by a bank, it was purchased, renovated, and sold to new owner-occupants.
	City of Springfield Public Libraries Restoration Award Forest Park Branch Library, 380 Belmont Avenue The Forest Park Library, designed by the local firm of Kirkham and Parlett, was built in 1908 in the Beaux Arts style. Its exterior has been restored, and the building made accessible.
	Gary & Kathleen Rogers Restoration Awards 181 Chestnut Street Built in 1875, the Mayor-Carr Block is a good example of the Italianate style. It contained stores and apartments. In the 1970s, half of its storefronts was filled in with brick and in the 1980s its left half was filled in barn board. Recent renovations have reopened them with glass while renovating the apartments as well.
	Attny. Raipher Pellegrino Restoration Award 56 Temple Street This 1885 Stick style house had become a group home, was then damaged by fire, and sat vacant for several years. Its exterior has been stripped of asphalt siding and restored while its interior has been renovated into two 3-floor living spaces.
	City of Springfield Replication of the Wait Monument State Street at Ferderal Street The Wait Monument may be the oldest nonfunerary carved stone from Colonial America. It was erected in 1763 by Joseph Wait, who nearly perished in a snow storm after taking a wrong turn while returning to is home in Brookfield. Mr. Wait had it placed to indicate the Boston Post Road. The marker contains numerous Masonic symbols and musket ball holes from Shays Rebellion. It was removed from State Street in the turbulent 1960s. The City has had a replica made and placed near its historic location. The original brownstone monument is now at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site.

	2009 Preservation Awards
	Carlo Delisia Restoration Award 98 Amherst Street This deteriorated two family was beautifully restored inside and out.
	Dwaine Clarke Restoration Award 50 Buckingham Street This abandoned home was deteriorated when it was restored.
	St. Peter & St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church, Father Michael Stewardship Award 118 Carew Street This prominent building continues to be beautifully maintained, most recently three onion domes where re-gilded in gold leaf.
	Ruby Long Restoration Award 69 Clarendon Street This home was appropriately reshingled.
	Samuel & Alison Stonefield Stewardship Award 49 Florentine Gardens This home was complete reshingling and some nice details were maintained.
	Richard & Jamie Gray Appropriateness Award 71 Ingersol Grove A side porch that had been missing was rebuilt to appropriately match the front porch of this home.
	Oak Grove Cemetery Stewardship Award The grounds and structures of this landmark landscape have been wonderfully maintained throughout the years
	Jessica & Julie Soba Restoration Award 192 Saint James Avenue Inappropriate siding has been removed and the old siding repaired on this home, and railings on the porch have been restored to their original look.
	Michael Begley Siding Removal 344 Saint James Avenue Artificial siding was removed and the exterior was restored.
	Dan & Margaret Kiohnfelder Appropriateness Award 73 Saint James Avenue This home's exterior was completely restored. Missing brackets were restored, and the front porch was rebuilt to match the style of the house.
	Atty. Raipher Pellegrino Restoration Award 273 State Street This International style building across the street from the new Federal Courthouse was refurbished to its original luster.
	Mary Spruell Stewardship Award 81 Walnut Street This apartment block has been well maintained over the years.


	2008 Preservation Awards
	Christine Hansen 59 Garfield Street This 1903 Colonial revival house had been covered with aluminum siding prior to the creation of the rest Park Heights Historic District. Its exterior has been returned to its original appearance, including the once-covered oval attic window.
	Rocco Terriaca 103 Bowdoin Street This grand 1883 Stick style house was converted to a rest home many years ago. Abandoned by its owners, the house sat vacant for several years before being foreclosed by the City for back taxes and then sold. Both house and carriage house have been restored.
	Michael Wiersma 85 Melrose Street Inappropriate siding was removed and the original siding was repaired and partially replaced to bring this small historic home back to its original look.
	Gary Lewis 111 Ingersoll Grove This 1889 Victorian home had been covered with aluminum siding before the creation of the McKnight Historic District. Its interior, garage, and yard were piled with junk. Foreclosed by theCity for back taxes, the house has been sold and restored inside and out. Gary was also the recipient of this years Donald E. Campion award.
	Joseph Williams 109 Buckingham Street This 1882 Stick style house lay vacant and gutted for many years. It has been rehabilitated.
	Richard and Jaime Gray 183 Dartmouth Terrace This grand 1894 Colonial Revival house had been sadly neglected over the years. Purchased at bank foreclosure auction, it has been thoroughly renovated.
	John Bakos 403 Maple Street This 1906 Colonial Revival style house was covered with artificial siding before the creation of the Maple Hill Historic District. The siding has been removed and the exterior repaired and painted.
	Jefferson Park LP 1245 Dwight Street 1391 Dwight Street These two early twentieth century apartment buildings were deteriorated and vacant prior to being renovated.
	Sunset Properties LLC 216-220 Pearl Street 222-226 Pearl Street These large early-twentieth apartment buildings had been in a state of decline for many years before their recent renovation and conversion to condominium units.
	Worthington Commons LP 90-98 Federal Street 900-902 Worthington Street These two early twentieth century apartment buildings sat vacant and deteriorated for several years before being rehabilitated along with nine other apartment buildings along Federal, Worthington, and Summit Streets.
	3640 Main Street LLP 3640 Main Street This historic industrial building was completely renovated for modern office space and a portion of one of the first floor walls was preserved as a wall separating the parking lot from Main Street.