Historic Hawai‘i Foundation is accepting nominations now through February 5, 2010 for the 2010 Preservation Honor Awards. The Honor Awards recognize exceptional preservation projects and programs from across the state. The Preservation Honor Awards are Hawai‘i’s highest recognition of efforts to perpetuate, rehabilitate, restore or interpret Hawai‘i’s architectural, archaeological and cultural heritage.
The awards presentation will be held in April in Honolulu. Honorees will be announced in mid-March.
Awards are given to projects that exhibit excellence in planning, implementation, and follow-through of work that demonstrates historic preservation as a strategy for the protection, understanding, revitalization, use or celebration of Hawai‘i’s historic and cultural sites. Awards are given for specific preservation or rehabilitation projects; printed publications or visual presentations interpreting the history or preservation of a site; and for engaging in efforts that support preservation.
Nominations are considered by a committee of professionals in the fields of architecture, history, planning, landscape architecture and media. Each nomination is considered on its own merit and not in competition with others.
Historic Hawai‘i Foundation is a membership-based non-profit organization that encourages the preservation of historic sites on all the islands of Hawai‘i.