2008 Historic Preservation Awards
Purpose
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Cornerstone Award
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Sophia Long Award
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Nomination Process
Cornerstones, Inc. will make a presentation of two awards for excellence in the field of
historic preservation. The nature/purpose, eligibility, criteria, and nominating process for
these two awards are below described.
Nature/Purpose
The Cornerstones, Inc. Historic Preservation Awards are intended to recognize meaningful
achievements indicative of excellence and distinguished service in the field of historic preservation.
It is the intent that these awards not only will recognize and honor outstanding leadership and
contributions made towards advancing the preservation of the historic material culture and built
environment of Hamilton County, Tennessee but also that these awards will increase public awareness
of the importance of preserving our material culture and built environmental. The two awards given,
and their more specific purposes are:
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The Cornerstones Award for Excellence in a Preservation Project
- this award recognizes outstanding achievements in restoring, rehabilitating,
preserving, or otherwise reusing a building, site, structure, object, landscape,
feature, or other artifact of material culture or the built environment (the "Project").
In the course of completing the Project, the recipient will have sympathetically maintained
and/or carefully rehabilitated any old fabric on the Project, and any new construction shall
be both compatible with the old fabric and of a high aesthetic quality. The Project must
be located in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and must have been completed (or be substantially
completed, if not completed at the time of the nomination) within the last five years.
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The Sophia Long Award for Distinguished Service in the Promotion of Historic Preservation
- this award recognizes distinguished and exemplary service towards promoting efforts in historic
preservation, which service may include: funding and/or fundraising for preservation projects
and/or historic preservation generally; instructing others in the field of preservation of
material culture and the built environment, including regarding strategies for preservation,
methods for preservation, the economic impact of preservation, the importance of preservation
in land use planning and development, the cultural and historic significance of preservation,
etc.; advocacy for the protection of historic buildings, sites, and resources; providing historic
interpretation and/or research on material culture and the built environment; contributing to
designing and planning efforts in the course of land use decisions which promote the interest
of historic preservation; organizational and administrative contributions for preservation
projects or organizations devoted towards the mission of historic preservation; and educating
and informing the general public and public officials, including the promotion of public policies,
that advance the interest of preserving our material culture and built environment. The
recipient's efforts in this field shall have had a substantial impact on historic preservation
in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
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