If you’re an architect, contractor, or historic building owner, you might be interested in the following call for nominations from the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, which gives out an award to the best historic preservation project in the Southeast each year. Previous Mississippi winners were the restoration of Beauvoir after Katrina’s wallop (2009), and in 2010 the African American USO in Hattiesburg (which was damaged in the recent tornado).

Artists re-touch and in some cases re-create the wall and ceiling “frescoes” in the main house

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2013 Best of the South Award
Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH)

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians seeks nominations for the Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture Award. This annual award honors a project that preserves or restores an historic building, or complex of buildings, in an outstanding manner and that demonstrates excellence in research, technique, and documentation. Projects in the twelve-state (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) region of SESAH that were completed in 2011 or 2012 are eligible.

Nominations should consist of no more than two typed pages of description, and be accompanied by hard copy illustrations and any other supporting material. A cover letter should identify the owner of the project, the use of the building(s), and the names of all the major participants of the project.

Send three (3) copies to Elizabeth M. Humphreys, 6542 Kobe Court, Montgomery, AL 36117. Questions: elizabethmhumphreys@gmail.com. Deadline: July 1, 2013.

ABOUT SESAH
The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is a regional chapter of the national Society of Architectural Historians and includes twelve states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
The nonprofit organization holds an annual meeting, publishes a quarterly newsletter and an annual journal, ARRIS, and presents annual awards, including the “Best of the South” preservation award.
SESAH was founded in 1982 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to promote scholarship on architecture and related subjects and to serve as a forum for ideas among architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others involved in professions related to the built environment. The annual meeting features scholarly paper sessions, business meeting, study tours, and a keynote lecture by a national leader in the field. SESAH members come from across the U.S.

Categories: Historic Preservation, Renovation Projects