Preservation Awards

Every year Historic Salem, Inc. invites community members to nominate recently completed renovation projects for a Preservation Award. Awards for projects that have furthered the preservation efforts in Salem will be presented at the Historic Salem, Inc. Preservation Awards event on Saturday, September 6, 2025 at Salem High School.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Preservation Awards!

Historic Salem is asking the community to help us find the best examples of outstanding historic preservation projects throughout the City. We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 Preservation Awards..  

We encourage you to take a look around the City and within your neighborhood at recent projects that  celebrate preservation, and deserve recognition as being outstanding. Nominated projects can be private, public, or non-profit — residential or commercial — handcrafted or urban-scaled. Examples of the areas to take into consideration include:
  • High quality home renovations
  • Storefront renovations
  • Hand-crafted fences, arbors, garden houses and other historic landscaping.
  • Stewardship and preservation that goes beyond normal maintenance requirements.
  • The work of life-long preservation advocates
  • Renewal of abandoned or disaster-struck historic properties.

Nominations are due by July 15, 2025 at 5pm.  Property owners may nominate their own projects.

Congratulations to our previous Preservation Award winners.
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2024 Preservation Awards
  • Salem Advocate Hale Bradt, the Electric Time Company, Inc., and the City of Salem Preservation Planning (Patti Kelleher - Restoration of Almy's Clock
  • Essex National Heritage Commission, CEO Annie Harris and Team, including project contributor Farmhouse Fixer HGTV Show Co-Host – Kristina Crestin - Restoration of Bakers Island Lightkeeper's House
  • Joseph Skomurski, Developer, and Seger Architects - Restoration of 3 Federal Court
  • Robert Morin (on behalf of the Library Trustees and Daedalus Arts) - Restoration of the Poseidon Fountain, Board of Trustees, 370 Essex Street
  • Vijay Joyce, Executive Director, and Contractor, Robert Levesque – American Steeple and Tower, Inc. - Exterior Façade of 1660 The Pickering House, 18 Broad Street
  • Carling Audette and Mark Audette with Seger Architects - Restoration of the 1747 Timothy Lindall House and Fence, 393 Essex Stree​t
  • Owners Ian and Karen Popken - Recreation of the Iron Fence and Addition of a Period Fountain, the 1872 Putnam-Balch House, 329 Essex Street​
  • City of Salem (Patti Kelleher, Preservation Planner) and Friends of Greenlawn (President, Christine Lutts) - Restoration of the Stained Glass Windows, Dickson Chapel, Greenlawn Cemetery​
  • Dakota Russell, Executive Director, and Paul Wright, Director of Preservation and Maintenance - Environmental Initiative:  Plan for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise, House of the Seven Gables​
  • Owner and Craftsman, Dr. Thomas Murray - Recreation of the Fence, 14 Chestnut Street​
  • Owners Mark Stevens and Anthony Keck - Restoration of the Entryway and Sidelites, 69 Summer Street
  • Project Managers Jason Pina and Cameron White and Director of Real Estate Ilene Vogel - Restoration of a Post-Salem Fire Affordable Apartment Building, 96 Congress StreetNorth Shore Community Development Coalition

2023 Preservation Awards
  • Joe Cultrera - Preservation Contributions, Greater Endicott Street Neighborhood 
  • Steven and Patrick O'Sullivan - 78 Bayview Avenue 
  • Cynthia Williams - 43 Chestnut Street
  • Robert McCarthy and Salem Maritime Historic Site - 160 Derby Street, Sidewalks
  • Dorian Fliegel and Ryan Macione, Haylard Services - 111 Columbus Avenue
  • Robert Burkinshaw, Ye Olde Pepper Companie - 122 Derby Street
  • Gregory Davis - 9 Hathorne Street
  • Salem Common Neighborhood Association - Washington Arch

2022 Preservation Awards
  • City of Salem - Forest River Bathhouse 
  • Mike Becker - 49 Federal Street, Atlantic Coast 
  • Hamilton Hall - 9 Chestnut Street 
  • Jay & Dick Goldberg - 94 Washington Sq. 
  • Richard Stafford - Woodland Preservation 
  • John Hermanski - 5 Monroe Street, Shutters 
  • David Pabich and Larry Frej - St. Joseph's School & Rectory 
  • Flora Tonthat - 30 Northey Street 

2021 Preservation Awards
  • Ahmed Family, The Crescent Trust -  William Hunt Double House
  • Patrick Bentivegna and Adele Lee - The Daniels House
  • Emily and Rob Stuart - 360 Essex Street
  • Josiah Fisk and Andy Grier - 358 Essex Street
  • Greg Spanos - 350-352 Essex Street
  • Len Karan - 7 Curtis Street
  • Dave Potter - 12 Mall Street
  • Margaret Santerre - 119 Mason Street
  • Jen Ratliff - Almshouse Burial Ground Marker
  • David Hart - Lifetime Achievement Award

2020 Preservation Awards
  • Peabody Essex Museum - 1 Brown Street, Bray House
  • Jim McAllister, author of "Historic Salem, Inc.: 75 Years of Preservation" and a lifetime of telling Salem's history
  • Jessica Herbert - for a Lifetime of Advocacy
  • Tim Bildsten - 2 Andover Street, Fence Restoration 
  • John Hermanski - 5 Monroe Street, Garden Folly 
  • Michael Becker - 14-16 Hodges Court, Building and Grounds Renovation 
  • Alyssa Jones and Tess DiMatteo - 20 Northey Street, Facade and Sidewalk Restoration 
  • Salem Renewal Ventures - 21 Washington Square, Building Restoration 
  • Salem Renewal Ventures - 192 Federal Street, Facade Restoration