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Eligibility

Except as expressly stated otherwise, both the Cornerstone Award and the Sophia Long Award are open for recognition of any person, group, organization, business, firm or government agency or office. Those ineligible for either of the awards are: current employees of Cornerstones, Inc., current members of the Executive Committee of Cornerstones, Inc. and previous winners of the same award (in the case of the Cornerstone Award, only for the same project).

Criteria

The criteria for the Cornerstone Award are:

  1. Significance – The Project shall have historical or architectural importance for Hamilton County in a way that merits the Project’s preservation. It is not necessary for projects to be both historically significant and architecturally significant.
  2. Quality – The Project shall display excellence of workmanship and craftsmanship including the care and attention given towards the preservation of historic elements of theProject. These criteria will include conformity to any applicable professional standards and/or regulatory guidelines or requirements. It is intended that the Project be a model example for similar projects, exemplary in its design and technical implementation.
  3. Innovation – The Project shall have exhibited creative solutions towards overcoming the difficulties of preservation, the use of innovative technologies or products and the implementation concepts and strategies which are adaptive and dynamic inpreserving the Project.
  4. Aesthetics – The Project shall have demonstrated appropriate awareness, consciousness and sensitivity to the aesthetic elements that make the Project historically and/or are architecturally significant, including image, form, context, materials, design, texture and construction.
  5. Impact – The preservation and/or end use of the Project shall have demonstrated a positive impact on the neighborhood of the larger community.

It is not necessary for the award recipient to meet or satisfy all of the criteria. Instead, these criteria are intended to be instructive factors both to those who would make nominations for the award and to the awards committee in assessing the nominations.