East Tennessee Preservation Awards
2021 Winners:
City of Knoxville Mayor’s Award – Dover Signature Properties and BarberMcMurry Architects for the restoration of historic South High School at 835 Tipton Avenue
Media Award – Knoxville History Project for the recently published Historic Bearden: The 200-Year Story of Knoxville’s Fourth Creek Valley. The 200-page, full-color guidebook was written by Jack Neely, edited and image sourced by Paul James, and designed by the awarding winning team at Robin Easter Design
Preservation Service Award – Cherel Henderson for her service as the Executive Director of the East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) from 2003 until 2020.
Additional 2021 Award Winners include:
- Reagan Design + Construction and Dgray & Hbogus, LLC for the renovation of 2545 Jefferson Avenue in the Parkridge neighborhood
- City of Knoxville for renovating the Jackson Avenue Ramps
- Parkridge Group, LLC and Sanders Pace Architecture for the renovation of 1520 Washington Avenue in the Parkridge neighborhood
- Holli McCray and John Verdeaux for the restoration of the 1940 Annandale Manor
- The Aslan Foundation and Sanders Pace Architecture for the restoration of seven historic cabins and construction of new structures associated with the newly established Loghaven Artist Residency
- Arin Streeter for writing the National Register nomination for the Charles L. Lawhon House in the Morningside neighborhood
- Segal Drummond and Sanders Pace Architecture for the renovation of 517 and 519 N. Central Street in the Emory Place Historic District
- Axle Logistics and Design Innovation Architects for the renovation of the former Hull and Dobbs building located at 835 N. Central Street
- The Aslan Foundation and Sanders Pace Architecture for the restoration of the Candoro Marble Building in the Vestal community
- ELST Brewing Company and Sanders Pace Architecture for renovating and adapting two dilapidated 80 year old buildings into a new craft brewery and community gathering space within the Oakwood-Lincoln Park neighborhood
- Jim and Lori Klonaris, SK Ballard Contract Interiors, and Johnson Architecture, Inc for the renovation and adapted reuse of two floors in the Holston Building into the high-end restaurant and retro cocktail bar, Vida and The Vault
- John Sanders for the restoration of Clauss House II located in the Little Switzerland neighborhood
- Sanders Pace Architecture for the renovation of 509 N. Central Street in the Emory Place Historic District
The East Tennessee Preservation Alliance presented regional preservation awards to:
- Claiborne County Historical Society for grant-related repairs to the 1819 Old Claiborne County Jail in Tazewell
- KBD, LLC and Brewer Ingram Fuller Architects, Inc for the renovation of the 1907 Building into a brewery, restaurant and event space located in downtown Morristown
- Dean and Karen Fontaine for placing Millennium Manor in Alcoa on the National Register of Historic Places
- Dunbar Rosenwald School Foundation, Inc and Brewer Ingram Fuller Architects, Inc for the restoration of the Dunbar Rosenwald School in Loudon