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 2024 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, 2024 at 5pm.  Property owners may nominate their own projects.

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