Boston’s Best Preservation Projects
The Huntington Theatre hosted our 35th Annual Preservation Achievement Awards. We premiered our award films celebrating Boston’s outstanding preservation projects and the people who bring them to life.
Our staff are packaging up the films to share here on our website. Come back in a week or so to see them yourselves and be prepared to be enthralled by the people and places that make Boston a vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Help us share more stories that are uniquely Boston and support our work. The Alliance is fully funded by donations and sponsorships. Our goal is to raise $350,000 in support of preservation in Boston. We need just $13,000 more to reach our goal. Be a champion of Preservation.
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If you can’t use it, you lose it. When we preserve older and historic places, we know they have to be useful for today’s society. History has to be accessible, and that’s what this year’s winning projects are all about. Whether it’s making historical maps available for free and for all online, adding ramps to the backstage of a theatre, sharing untold stories on YouTube, or making historic spaces viable and sustainable for the future, each project makes history more accessible for Bostonians. Each project is useful for sharing the full history of Boston.
Congratulations to our 2023 Preservation Achievement Award recipients!
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Vote for your favorite project today! You may vote once per day in the month of November. The winner will be announced in December and will receive an art print of their project illustration made by Laurea McLeland.
Congratulations to Our 2023 Preservation Award Recipients!
President's Award for Excellence: Jean Abouhamad and Sea-Dar
The Boston Preservation Alliance is pleased to present our 2023 Susan Park President’s Award for Excellence to Jean Abouhamad, President and Founder of Sea-Dar Construction. A structural engineer and real estate developer, Jean founded the company in 1991 after leaving a successful career with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. His passion and knowledge have grown the firm throughout the Northeast. Jean has an eye for detail with a focus on restoring historic buildings.
2023 CODMAN AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: MICHAEL CANNIZZO
The Boston Preservation Alliance is pleased to present our 2023 Codman Lifetime Achievement Award to Michael Cannizzo, whose work in Boston has ensured the preservation and protection of the city’s historic built environment. As a senior architect with extensive experience in design review, his work encompasses restoration, and new construction — all while maintaining a regard for the existing structural landscape.
Leaders
Underwriters
Media Sponsor
Advocates
- Renaissance Properties and Roger & Maryanne Tackeff
Stewards
- Architectural Heritage Foundation
- Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype
- BioMed
- Bond Building Construction, Inc.
- Boston University
- Building Conservation Associates
- Consigli
- Copley Wolff Design Group, Inc.
- Daedalus Conservation
- Denterlein
- DiMella Shaffer
- Epsilon
- Fannin-Lehner Preservation Consultants
- Goulston & Storrs
- H.N. Gorin Inc.
- Hacin
- ICON Architecture, Inc.
- J.L. Dunn General Contractors
- John Moriarty & Associates, Inc.
- Kaplan Construction
- M.L. McDonald Sales Company, LLC
- Marr Scaffolding Co.
- P.J. Spillane Company
- Sasaki
- Sidman Family Foundation
- Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- SoWa Boston
- Suffolk Construction
- UrbanMeritage, LLC
- VHB
- Wessling Architects
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Sustainers
- Herrick & White
- Acentech
- Apiero Design
- Astro Ventures
- Bank of America
- Catherine Truman Architects
- Colantonia Inc.
- Crabtree McGarth Associates, Inc.
- DePaoli Mosaic Company
- Donovan Hatem LLP
- Driscoll Electric Co., Inc.
- Existing Conditions Surveys
- Group One Partners, Inc.
- Klein Horning LLP
- McNamara • Salvia, Structural Engineers
- Northern Lights Painting Company, Inc.
- Oxford Properties Group
- R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, LLP
- The Selwyn Foundation
- Weston & Sampson