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Awards and Fellowships, Buchanan Award

Paul E. Buchanan Award Winners

2009 Winner

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.
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Past Winners

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.

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