VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA
Metropolitan Chapter Awards 1976-2010
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2006-2016
Recipients: Central Park Conservancy
Award: Preservation Advocacy
Recipients: Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History , Award: Grassroots Preservation
Recipient: Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives at Columbia’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Award: Special Citation
Recipient: Opera Orchestra of New York (Eve Queler, Director)
Award: Special Citation
Recipients: New York Economic Development Corporation; Jan Hird Pokorny Architects; Tishman Construction Corp.; Robert Silman Associates
Award: Restoration
For: The Battery-Maritime Building Restoration
Recipients: The Kibel Company; H. Thomas O’Hara Architect; Facade Maintenance Design; Levine Builders; Seaboard Weatherproofing & Restoration Company; Desimone Consulting Engineers
Award: Restoration
For: 90 West Street Restoration
Recipients: Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio and Nina Gray
Award: Catalogue
For: A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement
Recipient: Nancy E. Green of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Award: Catalogue and Exhibition
For: Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
Recipient: Kenneth D. Ackerman
Award: Publication
For: Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York
2007
Recipient: Barnet Schecter
Award: Social History
For: The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
Recipient: Debby Applegate
Award: Biography
For: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Recipient: William D. Moore
Award: Building Typology
For: Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes
Recipient: Nancy L. Todd
Award: Building Typology
For: New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History
Recipients: Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore
Recipients: Kate Lemos, William Morrison, Charles D. Warren, and Mark Alan Hewitt
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: Carrere & Hastings, Architects
Recipients: Kate Lemos, William Morrison, Charles D. Warren, and Mark Alan Hewitt
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: Carrere & Hastings, Architects
Recipients: Barbara Cohen-Stratyner (curator), Jacqueline Z. Davis (exec. dir.); New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Award: Exhibition
For: Vaudeville Nation
Recipients: Mary Sue Sweeney Price (dir.), Holly Pyne Connor, Mary Kate O’Hare, Sarah Burns, and Mary W. Blanchard; The Newark Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent
Recipients: Paul Warwick Thompson (dir.), Gail S. Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates, Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, and Karal Ann Marling; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
Recipients: Joan Rosenbaum (dir.), Karen Levitov, Carol J. Ockman, Kenneth E. Silver, Janis Bergman-Carton, and Suzanne Schwartz Zuber; The Jewish Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
Recipients: Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Ruth J. Abram, pres.) and Andrew S. Dolkart
Award: Special Citation
For: Biography of a Tenement House in New York City
2008
Recipient: Robert C. Kau fmann
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipients: Alice Cooney Freylinguysen, the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was curator of the exhibition and principal author of the catalogue. Richard Guy Wilson, Julia Meech, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Jennifer Thalheimer and Barbara Veith also contributed essays to the catalogue.
Award: Exhibition and Catalogue Award
For: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton – An Artist’s Country Estate, organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recipient: Central Park Conservancy
Award: Preservation Award
For: Restoration of the Bethesda Terrace Arcade
Recipient: Eldridge Street Synagogue
Award: Preservation Award
For: Restoration of the structure built in 1887
Recipient: Hermione Lee
Award: Publication Award for Biography
For: Edith Wharton
Recipient: Nigel Cliff
Award: Publication Award for Cultural History
For: The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death Nineteenth-Century America
Recipient: Jill Jonnes
Award: Publication Award for Infrastructure
For: Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
2009
Recipients: Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
Award: Publication – Architectural Monograph
For: The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury
Recipient: T. J. Stiles
Award: Publication – Biography
For: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Recipient: David Freeland
Award: Publication – Popular Culture
For: Automats, Taxi Dances, Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
Recipients: Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas
Award: Publication – Visual Culture
For: The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: Collection of Letterpress Examples with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corner Fills, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, and other Freaks of Fancy
Recipient: Andrew S. Dolkart
Award: Publication – Architectural History
For: The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929
Recipients: Mina Rieur Weiner, editor, and Paul Gunther, President, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
Award: Publication – Fine & Decorative Arts
For: Edwin Howland Blashfield, Master American Muralist
Recipient: Randall Mason
Award: Publication – Historic Preservation
For:The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
Recipients: Harold Holzer , Dr. Louise Mirrer, Dr. Richard Rabinowitz
Award: Exhibition and Catalogue
For:Lincoln and New York
Recipients: Reverend Alan Jackson, Senior Warden Shirley Daniels; and architect Daniel Allen of Cutsogeorge, Tooman & Allen Architects, P.C.
Award: Preservation Award – Roof Restoration
For: St. Andrews Episcopal Church (2067 Fifth Avenue)
Recipients: Consul General Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Vice Consul Ewa Gumpert, architect Frank S. Smith, A.I.A. and general contractor Augustyn Lech
Award: Preservation Award – Exterior Restoration
For: De Lamar Mansion, now the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York (233 Madison Avenue)
2001-2005
Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catherine Voorsanger and John K. Howat, curators and editors
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Art and the Empire City
Recipient: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Barbara Dayer Gallati and Arthur L. Lehman, curators
For: Exhibition and catalog William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes 1886-1890;
Recipient: Christine Stansell
For: American Moderns: Bohemian New York City and the Creation of a New Century
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Blanche Cirker
Award: Preservation Advocacy
Recipient: Christopher Gray
Award: Preservation Advocacy
Recipient: Hudson River Museum, Michael Botwinick, Director; Paige Ayres Cowley, Architect
For: Glenview Mansion at the Hudson River Museum; restoration of several portions of the interior
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: Mr. & Mrs. K. Terance McGinley; Tim Boyland, architect; and Mary Dierickx, Architectural Preservation Consutant
For: Gardiner-Tyler House addition
Recipient: Ronald G. Pisano
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient: Jane Lowenthal
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient: Sharon Irish
For: Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: U.S. Court of Appeals, 2 nd Circuit
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Cass Gilbert Symposium and Exhibits
Recipient: Rev. Herbert G. Draesel, Jr., Rector
For: Church of the Holy Trinity
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: Rev. Herbert G. Draesel, Jr., Rector
For: The Story of the Church of the Holy Trinity, 1899-1999
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Geert Palmaerts
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: S. Gabriela Allen
Award: London Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 1 – A Catalog of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
2002
Recipient: Dover Publications
For: Preservation Advocacy
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Jean Strouse
For: Morgan: American Financier
Award: Publication Award
2003
Recipients: William Dane; Catherine Hoover Voorsanger
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient: Elizabeth De Rosa, Ph.D
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Tiffany: Behind the Glass
Recipient: Amelia Peck
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for “Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design 1875-1900.”
Recipient: Leila Philip
For: A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars and Five Families
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: David B. Dearinger, Ph.D
For: Restoration of Emmanuel Baptist Church
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Li Saltzman Architects Architects; Kaitsen Woo Li, architect, Judith Saltzman, architect
For: Restoration of the Nicholas B. and Agnes Benzinger House
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: Bard Graduate School for Studies in Decorative Artsa
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001
Recipient: Brooks McNamara
For: The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Friends of The Woodlawn Cemetary
For: Preservation Advocacy
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: The 911 Alwyn Court Owners Corporation
For: Restoration of the Alwyn Court apartments
Award: Preservation Award
2005
Recipients: Everett and Evelyn Ortner
Award: Lifetime Achievement
Recipient: Richard Guy Wilson
Award: Special Citation
Recipient: New York Transit Museum
Award: Special Citation
Recipient: Arthur Rosenblatt
Award: Memorial Citation
Recipient: New York Landmarks Conservancy
For: Sacred Sites program
Award: Preservation Advocacy
Recipient: Mud Lane Society
For: The renaissance of Stapleton
Award: Grassroots Preservation
Recipients: Rothzeid, Kaiserman, Thomson & Bee; Jablonski-Berkowitz Conservation
For: Restoration New York Cancer Hospital
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Beyer Blinder Belle; Robert Silman Associates PC; Integrated Conservation Resources
For: Tiffany & Company Building
Recipients: H3 Hardy Collaberation; Building Conservation Associates; Boston Valley Terra Cotta; Graciano Corp.; David Kucera Inc.
For: Brooklyn Academy of Music
1995-2000
Recipient: Giorgio Cavaglieri, FAIA
For: One of the nations most distinguished preservation architects and a pioneer of adaptive reuse
Award: Lifetime Achievement
Recipients: Newark Museum, Ulysses Grant Dietz, project director
For: State-of-the-art restoration and renovation project of the Ballantine House, Newark Museum
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: Buttrick, White & Burtis, Architects & The Grenadier Corporation
For: Convent of the Sacred Heart. Exterior Restoration.
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipients: Katherine S. Howe, curator of decorative arts; Alice Cooney Frelinghusen, curator; Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, associate curator
For: Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age
Recipients: Anita Jacobson, curator, Lower East Side Tenement Museum; Li-Saltzman Architects; Steve Brosnahan, designer; Pamela Koch, artist
For: Restoration of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipients: Community Access Inc., sponsor; Peter L. Wolf, architect
For: Rehabilitation of Gouverneur Court
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Julie L. Sloan, author
For: Conservation of Stained Glass in America: A Manual for Studios and Caretakers
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: William Alex, author
For: Calvert Vaux, Architect and Planner
Award: Citation of Merit
1996
Recipient: Sara Bradford Landau
For: Author of book The New York Skyscraper 1865-1913, written with Carl Condit
Award: Publication Award
Recipients: Judith Saltzman & Kaitsen Woo Li; SBLM/BY 3 Group’s Phil Magnuson; J.D. Carlisle & M.D. Carlisle; Bob Puddicore, Barnes & Noble
For: Sensitive and intelligent renovation of the Century Building that has enriched and invigorated Union Square and the surrounding area
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Terri Bahr, Joanne Jones, Paul Bayard
For: Extensive renovation and system upgrade of the Flushing Town Hall
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipients: Ann Miniberg, archivist for Central Synagogue;Karl Doebley, architect
For: Comprehensive program of restoration of exterior of Central Synagogue
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Morrison Heckscher, curator of architecture. Metropolitan Museum
For: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Architectural History; The Architecture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1890 – an exhibit at the museum
Awards (2) Citation of Merit
Recipient: Richard McDermott
For: New York Chronicle, a quarterly journal celebrating the heritage of Old New York
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Republic National Bank & Platt, Dovell, Architects
For: Williamsburg Savings Bank. Phase One Restoration.
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: University of Chicago Press
For: First 2 volumes of Vera Brodsky Lawrence’s “Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong”
Award: Publication Award
1999
Recipient: Marjorie Pearson
For: Service as Director of Research, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Award: Distinguished Service Award
Recipient: Margot Gayle
For: Outstanding contribution to the preservation of New York City’s historic districts and buildings
Award: Lifetime Achievement
Recipient: Vera Brodsky Lawrence
For: Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volumes 1 & 2
Award: Publication Award
Recipients: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Thayer Tolles, Donna Hassler
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 1 – A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Judith Saltzman, Li/Saltzman Architects
For: Phase 1 of restoration of the Williamsburg Savings Bank
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Museum of the City of New York
For: Exhibition and catalog: New York on the Rise: Architectural Renderings by Hughson Hawley 1880-1931
Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art
For: Exhibition – Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
Recipient: Andrew S. Dolkart
For: Championed preservation of several buildings in areas such as Tribeca, Harlem, Grammercy Park
Award: Preservation Advocacy Award
Recipients: Sara Bradford Landau; New-York Historical Society
For: Exhibition – George B. Post: Great American Architect
Recipients: NewYork Public Library
Davis Brody Bond, architect
For: Restoration of the Rose reading main Room
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Margot Gayle, Carole Gayle
For: co-authored Cast Iron Architecture in America; The Significance of James Bogardus
Award: Publication Award
2000
Recipient: Susan Soros: Bard Graduate Center in the Decorative Arts
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for The Anglo-American Century 1814-1914: Designing an Era (symposium)
Recipient: Susan Soros: Bard Graduate Center in the Decorative Arts
For: The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Brooklyn Museum of Art
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Eastman Johnson: Painting America
Recipient: Landmark West!
Award: Preservation Advocacy
Recipient: Thayer Tolles, Donna J. Hessler & Lauretta Dimmick
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865
Award Publication Award
Recipient: Christopher Forbes
Award: Distinguished Service Award
Recipient: Gabriel Heimann
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: Josephine Morales
Award: London Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: Laurence Kanter, curator
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
1990-1994
Recipient: Dr. Regina Kellerman
For: Established a professional standard for recording and interpreting documented history of architectural past
Award: Outstanding Contribution by an Individual
Recipient: Joseph Pell Lombardi
For: Restoration of Octagon House in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY
Award: Preservation Award
Recipient: Elizabeth Collins Cromley
For: Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: St. Michael’s Church
For: Restoration of stained glass windows and decorative elements by Louis Comfort Tiffany and other Victorian designers
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Prospect Park Alliance
For: Restoration and reopening of carousel
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: New York Historical Society
For: Reviving the Luman Reed Gallery
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship
1992
Recipients: Walter G. Ritchie, Bonnie Kirschenstein, James Childs, Peter Trippi, Jeffrey Sholeen
Award: 19 th Century Studies Scholarship
Recipients: Edward Brown, Francoise Bollack
For: First Presbyterian Church, New York City
Award: Preservation Award
1993
Recipients: Willene B. Clarke, Leland A. Cook
For: The Stained Glass Art of William J. Bolton
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Alexander __?__
For: Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalog
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Trinity Church
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Franklin J. Headley, John L. Oddy
Award: London Summer School
Recipients: Heidi Wasstrom, Jay Schokley
Award: Newport Summer School
1994
Recipient: Jan Hirdy Pokorny
For: Inspired leader to generations of preservation students and professionals
Award: Lifetime Achievement
Recipients: National Audubon Society, Croxton Collaborative, architects
For: Restoration of Audubon House
Award: Preservation Award
Recipients: Alice Cooney Frelinghuyson, associate curator; Gary Interow, Engelhard curator
For: Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection
Award: Publication Award
Recipients: The Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City Transit Authority
For: Identifying, cleaning, repairing and protecting the historic tiles of the New York City subway system
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: First Reformed Church of College
For: Repair and repainting of church, maintaining its historic integrity
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Kapell and Kostow, architects
For: Extensive and sensitive restoration of 109 Prince Street
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipients: Central Park Conservancy; New York City Department of Parks
For: Restoration of Harlem Meer landscape
Award: Citation of Merit
Recipient: Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio
For: Exhibit and catalogue: The Distinction of being Different – Joseph P. McHugh and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
Award: Citation of Merit
1986-1989
Recipient: Giorgio Cavaglieri, Metropolis Magazine
Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement
Recipient: Helina Rosenthal
For: Upper East Side Historic District
Award: Preservation
1987
Recipient: Elizabeth Del Tufo
Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement
Recipient: Mardges Bacon
For: Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architecture and Urban Reformer
Award: Publication
1988
Recipient: Taisto H. Makela
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: Stephenson Andrews
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship
1989
Recipients: Lorraine Gilbert, Larry Park, Brian Melnick, Edward T. Mohlynowski
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship
Recipient: Kimberly Rhodes
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship
Recipients: Elizabeth Vasquez, Amy Wiser, Jan Egan
Award: London Summer School
Recipient: New York City Parks Department
For: Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park
Award: Restoration Award
Recipient: Fashion Institute of Technology
For: Tartan Exhibit
Award: Special Event Award
Recipient: Lord & Taylor
For: Christmas Windows
Award: Entertainment and Education Award
Recipients: Margot Gayle, Michele Cohen
For: Guide to Manhattan’s Outdoor Sculpture
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Pauline Metcalf
For: Ogden Codman
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Thomas Bender
For: A New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Time
Award: Publication Award
Recipient: Alice Austen House
For: Photo exhibit of Austen’s work
Award: Restoration Award
1976-1981
Recipient: The Old House Journal May 1976
Award: Publication Award
1977
Recipient: New York Botanical Garden
For: Enid Haupt Conservatory
Award: Preservation Award
1979
Recipients: The Brooklyn Museum
The Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture
The F.W. Woolworth Company
Award: Metropolitan Chapter Award for Excellence
1981
Recipient: Margot Gayle
Award: Individual Achievement
Recipient: U.S. Trust of New York
For: 54th Street Branch
Award: Interior Renovations
Recipient: Whitney North Seymour
Award: Outstanding Individual
Recipient: Joe Roberto
For: Old Merchant’s House
Award: Preservation Award