ACHP Announces 2009 Preserve America Presidential Awards

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is accepting nominations through November 1, 2008, for the 2009 Preserve America Presidential Awards that are now open to all exemplary historic preservation and heritage tourism efforts meeting award program criteria.

Nominations for outstanding and innovative heritage tourism projects and programs based upon sustainable use of cultural and natural historic resources also are sought in addition to preservation efforts. This award is honorific (non-monetary).

Four Preserve America Presidential Awards will be presented during Preservation Month in May 2009. Information on past winners and the overall Preserve America initiative are available here.

The 20 recipients of the Preserve America Presidential Award to date are:

2004
Lackawanna Heritage Valley (Pennsylvania)
Blue Ridge Heritage Initiative (Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia)
The Beaumont Hotel (Ouray, Colorado)
Historic Raven Natural Resource Learning Center (Kootenai National Forest, Montana)

2005
Restoration of The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)
Texas Heritage Trails Program (Texas)
Bolduc Historic Properties (Sainte Genevieve, Missouri)
Isaiah Davenport House Museum (Savannah, Georgia)

2006
Mission San Luis (Tallahassee, Florida)
Maryland Heritage Areas Program (Maryland)
Tauck World Discovery Yellowstone Guest-Volunteer Program (Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming)
Explore the Highway with Hampton Save-A-Landmark® Program (Nationwide)

2007
USS Midway Museum (San Diego, California)
Natchitoches-Cane River Region Heritage Tourism Initiative (Louisiana)
Downtown St. Louis Revitalization (Missouri)
The History Channel: Save Our History (Nationwide)

2008
African Burial Ground Project (New York)
The Corinth and Alcorn County Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative (Mississippi)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York)
Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program (Texas)