ICYMI: The 2021 Excellence Awards Program

For the second year, the League brought our Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards online. Our 10 honorees were announced during a Zoom livestream on Tuesday, November 16. League President Jay DiLorenzo, League Board Chair Frank Sanchis, and League Board Member/Awards Committee Chair Charlotte Worthy hosted the program, which you can watch below if you missed it live!

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THE 2021 EXCELLENCE IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARD WINNERS ARE:

  • Clinton Avenue Historic Apartments, Albany, Albany County

  • Proctors Collaborative: Capital Repertory Theatre + Universal Preservation Hall, Albany, Albany County + Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County

  • SUNY Broome Culinary & Event Center, Binghamton, Broome County

  • Arbor Gerard Block and the Carroll Street Warehouse Rehabilitation Project, Elmira, Chemung County

  • Steven Engelhart, Keeseville, Clinton County

  • Preservation Buffalo Niagara, Buffalo, Erie County

  • Whitcomb's Garage Adaptive Reuse Project, Whallonsburg, Essex County

  • Green-Wood's Historic Chapel, Brooklyn, Kings County

  • Central Presbyterian Church Exterior Restoration, Manhattan, New York County

  • @syracusehistory (Instagram by David Haas), Syracuse, Onondaga County

Thank you to the Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation for making this program possible.

Since 1984, the Preservation League’s statewide awards program has highlighted projects, organizations, publications, and individuals that exemplify best practices in historic preservation and recognize the people who are using historic preservation to build stronger neighborhoods, create local jobs, provide affordable housing, open our eyes to overlooked history, and save the places that are special to all of us.