Past Buchanan Award Winners

2024

“Before Displacement: an Urban History.” read more

2023

The DC Legacy Project: Barry Farm-Hillsdale, featuring the documentary Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice in Washington, DC. read more

2022

"Future Places" project by the City of Atlanta

2021

"Dudley Farm-National Historic Landmark Nomination" by Evelyn D. Causey, PhD.  read more

2020

“Traditional Patterned Brickwork Buildings of New Jersey” by Architectural Historian Robert W. Craig, of the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office

“The Asian Americans in Los Angeles Historic Context Statements” and the associated National Register of Historic Places’ Multiple Property Documentation Form by the Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources  read more

2019

The Montana African American Heritage Resources Project provides a model for public outreach that uses interactive Web-based digital media to bring together a wealth of resources that contribute significantly to our understanding of the black experience in the west. read more

2018

Megan Springate et al. -  LGBTQ America Theme Study & Rachel Galan and Anthony Souther – Caddo Grass House  Reconstruction read more

2017

The Newport Restoration Foundation, of Newport, RI for their 2016 conference Keeping History Above Water, exhibition, and publication Keeping 74 Bridge Street Above Water: Lessons from the City of Newport and the Point Neighborhood. read more

2016

Tania Martin, the Gaspé Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, and San Francisco Heritage, The San Francisco Heritage Legacy Business Initiative read more

2015

Stephen Fan for "SUB URBANISMS: Casino Company Town/China Town” read more

2014

Western Clay Manufacturing Company Conservation Praxis project read more

2013

Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project and Sally McMurry, Project Coordinator read more

2012

Donald Linebaugh for "Goulson Frame House Project" read more

2011

Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program, for its project "Single-Family Residential Development: DeKalb County, Georgia, 1945-1970." read more

2010

North Carolina Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary. This resource covers a large and ever-growing group of architects, builders, craftsman, artisans, and related individuals who planned and constructed buildings in the state. read more

2009

Triangle Modernist Archive, Inc., for creating and maintaining Triange Modernist Houses, an extensive online archive that catalogs, preserves, and promotes modernist residential design in the Triangle area of North Carolina. read more

2008

Marvin A. Brown, "Tools for Assessing the Significance and Integrity of North Carolina's Rosenwald Schools."

2007

The London Town Foundation and Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks, Maryland, for the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the Lord Mayor’s Tenement, a Chesapeake earthfast dwelling.

2006

Tilting Recreation and Cultural Society, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada and a key member, Robert Mellin, for efforts since 1987 in documenting, preserving, and restoring structures, artifacts, and folkways of a traditional fishing village.

2005

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia, for its path-breaking research, restoration, and interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's Villa Retreat, and its associated field school.

2004

Camille Wells, William Callahan and Ed Cook, "Dendrochronology for the Colonial Virginia House."

2003

Historic American Buildings Survey, Washington, D.C., "Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present"; and Mark Wenger and Myron Stachiw, "James Madison's Montpelier: Report of the Architectural Investigation."

2002

No Award

2001

Center for Historic Architecture and Design, University of Delaware and Delaware Agricultural Museum. Exhibit: "Agricultural Lands."

2000

Hardlines Design Co./U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  "Thematic Study of Civil Works Residences for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District."

1999

Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Department of Environmental Management, Office of Historic Resources. "The Civilian Conservation Corps Initiative."

1998

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. Exhibit: "Lying Lightly on the Land: Building America’s National Park Roads and Parkways."

1997

State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison) and Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul). Conference Series: "Breaking New Ground on Old Buildings:  Historic Architecture and Landscapes in Wisconsin and Minnesota."

1996

Thomas Carter, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Program for Documenting the Architectural Heritage of the Western United States.

1995

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Geographic Information System and Exhibit: "Opening the Gates of Eighteenth Century Montreal.”

1994

LCS Project Team, Atlanta, Georgia. National Register Nomination for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site.

1993

Andrew and Anderson, P.C., Golden, Colorado. HAER Documentation for The Cresson Mine Ore Sorting House, Cripple Creek Mining District, Cripple Creek, Colorado.