Preservation Austin Celebrates 2024 Preservation Merit Award Winners
Graphic: Kristen Napoleon
AUSTIN, TX (September 24, 2024) – Preservation Austin is delighted to recognize the ambitious, innovative, and community-minded winners of our 64th Annual Preservation Merit Awards. Our twelve winners for 2024 represent the wide-ranging efforts to build community and enhance historic spaces across Austin.
Established in 1960, this juried program celebrates the hard work and visionary approaches of those preserving Austin’s architectural, cultural, and environmental heritage. “Our 2024 award recipients speak to Austin’s diverse past and inspiring present,” says Lindsey Derrington, Preservation Austin’s Executive Director. “We have the privilege of sharing these projects with our community to advance our shared understanding of the places that have shaped Austin’s culture and history, and of the people whose advocacy and research continues to bring this heritage to life.”
This year’s Awards Ceremony honors preservation projects small and large: from thoughtfully-restored homes with small footprints, to mid-sized adaptive reuse endeavors like 4300 Speedway, to truly massive undertakings like the Old General Land Office Building Preservation and Roof Replacement. Our 2024 Stewardship and Special Recognition Awards celebrate the inspiring Austinites who have worked tirelessly to uplift their community’s stories, including Mark Wolfe, Sue Spears-Martin, and Chris Riley.
Preservation Austin brings together professionals from the preservation, design, and nonprofit worlds to serve on its jury each year and to select exemplary projects with community impact.
The 2024 Preservation Merits Awards Jury included:
Chris Gannon, AIA, Co-Chair, AIA Austin Housing Advocacy Committee
Mallory Laurel, Special Projects Coordinator, Texas Historical Commission
Racheal Lute, Preservation Engineer, Raths, Raths + Johnson
Ellis Mumford Russell, Partner, Post Oak Preservation
With additional consideration from:
Amanda Jasso, Equity & Inclusion Program Manager, City of Austin Equity Office
Recipients will be honored at our Preservation Merit Awards Celebration at Springdale Station on Tuesday, November 12 from 6 pm to 9 pm. Our annual celebration is the only one of its kind to honor the everyday Austinites working hard to preserve Austin’s heritage in diverse, exciting, and unexpected ways.
Ticket sales and sponsorship opportunities are available now at the link below. Individual tickets are $100 for Preservation Austin members and $125 for non-members. All proceeds from the event help sustain our nonprofit’s advocacy and educational programming year-round.
2024 Preservation Merit Award Recipients
4300 SPEEDWAY
Recipient: State Street Properties
Preservation Award for Rehabilitation
Photo: Casey Dunn
CHRIS RILEY
Stewardship Award and Special Recognition Award for Public Service
Photo: Courtesy of Denise Brady
CHRISTIANSON-LEBERMAN BUILDING
Recipient: Texas Historical Commission
Preservation Award for Rehabilitation
Photo: Erika Bonfanti
HARTFORD HOME
Recipient: Molly & Alex McVey
Preservation Award for Infill or Addition
Photo: Leonid Furmansky
HOGG MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM
Recipient: The University of Texas at Austin
Preservation Award for Restoration
Photo: Patrick Wong
HUTSON GALLAGHER
Recipient: Tracy and Chris Hutson
Special Recognition Award for Public Service
Photo: Courtesy of Chris and Tracy Hutson
MARK WOLFE
Special Recognition Award for Public Service
Photo: Courtesy of Mark Wolfe
OFFBEAT
Recipient: Roger Fisher and Lorrie Castellano
Preservation Award for Infill or Addition
Photo: Leonid Furmansky
OLD GENERAL LAND OFFICE BUILDING
Recipient: State Preservation Board
Preservation Award for Restoration
Photo: Courtesy of the State Preservation Board
RAYMOND-MORELY HOUSE
Recipient: Reid Wittliff
Preservation Award for Rehabilitation
Photo: Carter Design Associates
RECKONING WITH THE PAST
Recipient: Neill-Cochran House Museum
Stewardship Award and Preservation Award for Restoration
Photo: Neill-Cochran House Museum
SUE SPEARS-MARTIN AND BETHANY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Stewardship Award
Photo: Michael Minasi