Nominees sought for Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards

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NEWPORT – The Newport Restoration Foundation and the city of Newport are seeking nominations for the annual Doris Duke Preservation Awards.

The awards encourage "excellence in historic preservation by recognizing exemplary preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation projects as well as education and advocacy initiatives that have taken place throughout Newport County," according to a news release. The awards also seek to highlight innovative approaches to preservation, including new technologies, materials/products, creative adaptive reuse, climate change adaptations, and similar progressive concepts.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 17. The winners will be acknowledged at an awards event on Friday, Sept. 6.

Award criteria

Eligible recipients are individuals; non-profit or for-profit organizations; and federal, state, or local agencies.

A wide variety of nominations of varying project budgets are encouraged, from small buildings to large; major rehabilitations to minor restorations; landscapes or streetscapes; new technologies, materials, and/or products; and education or advocacy initiatives. Particular attention will be paid to projects that include the following criteria:

  • New or emerging preservation technologies, materials, and/or products

  • Adaptive reuse

  • Multi-family, affordable housing building adaptation

  • Resiliency and energy efficiency

  • Excellence in proactive maintenance (painting, roofing, siding repairs, etc.)

  • New products compliant in historic applications’

All work related to the project or initiative must have been completed within the last three (3) years.

Nominations are welcome from Newport, Jamestown, Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton and Little Compton.

Properties that are currently (or anticipated to be) listed for sale will not be considered.

Up to five awards are made annually. The Nomination Review Committee reserves the right to designate additional awardees under extraordinary circumstances.

Further information about the nomination process, including a listing of the information that must be provided in conjunction with a nomination, can be found at newportrestoration.org/DDPA or by emailing Margaret Back, NRF’s Preservation Projects Manager, at margaret@newportrestoration.org.

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards: Newport County nominees sought