VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA

Metropolitan Chapter Awards 1976-2007

1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

1976
Recipient: The Old House Journal May 1976
Award: Publication Award


1977
Recipient: New York Botanical Garden
For: Enid Haupt Conservatory
Award: Preservation Award


1979
Recipients: The Brooklyn Museum
The Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture
The F.W. Woolworth Company
Award: Metropolitan Chapter Award for Excellence


1981
Recipient: Margot Gayle
Award: Individual Achievement

Recipient: U.S. Trust of New York
For: 54th Street Branch
Award: Interior Renovations

Recipient: Whitney North Seymour
Award: Outstanding Individual

Recipient: Joe Roberto
For: Old Merchant’s House
Award: Preservation Award


1986
Recipient: Giorgio Cavaglieri, Metropolis Magazine
Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement

Recipient: Helina Rosenthal
For: Upper East Side Historic District
Award: Preservation


1987
Recipient: Elizabeth Del Tufo
Award: Outstanding Individual Achievement

Recipient: Mardges Bacon
For: Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architecture and Urban Reformer
Award: Publication

1988
Recipient: Taisto H. Makela
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: Stephenson Andrews
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship


1989
Recipients: Lorraine Gilbert, Larry Park, Brian Melnick, Edward T. Mohlynowski
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: Kimberly Rhodes
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship

Recipients: Elizabeth Vasquez, Amy Wiser, Jan Egan
Award: London Summer School

Recipient: New York City Parks Department
For: Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park
Award: Restoration Award

Recipient: Fashion Institute of Technology
For: Tartan Exhibit
Award: Special Event Award

Recipient: Lord & Taylor
For: Christmas Windows
Award: Entertainment and Education Award

Recipients: Margot Gayle, Michele Cohen
For: Guide to Manhattan’s Outdoor Sculpture
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Pauline Metcalf
For: Ogden Codman
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Thomas Bender
For: A New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Time
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Alice Austen House
For: Photo exhibit of Austen’s work
Award: Restoration Award


1990
Recipient: Dr. Regina Kellerman
For: Established a professional standard for recording and interpreting documented history of architectural past
Award: Outstanding Contribution by an Individual

Recipient: Joseph Pell Lombardi
For: Restoration of Octagon House in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: Elizabeth Collins Cromley
For: Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: St. Michael’s Church
For: Restoration of stained glass windows and decorative elements by Louis Comfort Tiffany and other Victorian designers
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Prospect Park Alliance
For: Restoration and reopening of carousel
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: New York Historical Society
For: Reviving the Luman Reed Gallery
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
Award: 19th Century Studies Scholarship


1992
Recipients: Walter G. Ritchie, Bonnie Kirschenstein, James Childs, Peter Trippi, Jeffrey Sholeen
Award: 19 th Century Studies Scholarship

Recipients: Edward Brown, Francoise Bollack
For: First Presbyterian Church, New York City
Award: Preservation Award


1993
Recipients: Willene B. Clarke, Leland A. Cook
For: The Stained Glass Art of William J. Bolton
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Alexander __?__
For: Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalog
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Trinity Church
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Franklin J. Headley, John L. Oddy
Award: London Summer School

Recipients: Heidi Wasstrom, Jay Schokley
Award: Newport Summer School


1994
Recipient: Jan Hirdy Pokorny
For: Inspired leader to generations of preservation students and professionals
Award: Lifetime Achievement

Recipients: National Audubon Society, Croxton Collaborative, architects
For: Restoration of Audubon House
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Alice Cooney Frelinghuyson, associate curator; Gary Interow, Engelhard curator
For: Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection
Award: Publication Award

Recipients: The Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City Transit Authority
For: Identifying, cleaning, repairing and protecting the historic tiles of the New York City subway system
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: First Reformed Church of College
For: Repair and repainting of church, maintaining its historic integrity
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Kapell and Kostow, architects
For: Extensive and sensitive restoration of 109 Prince Street
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipients: Central Park Conservancy; New York City Department of Parks
For: Restoration of Harlem Meer landscape
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio
For: Exhibit and catalogue: The Distinction of being Different – Joseph P. McHugh and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
Award: Citation of Merit


1995
Recipient: Giorgio Cavaglieri, FAIA
For: One of the nations most distinguished preservation architects and a pioneer of adaptive reuse
Award: Lifetime Achievement

Recipients: Newark Museum, Ulysses Grant Dietz, project director
For: State-of-the-art restoration and renovation project of the Ballantine House, Newark Museum
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: Buttrick, White & Burtis, Architects & The Grenadier Corporation
For: Convent of the Sacred Heart. Exterior Restoration.
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipients: Katherine S. Howe, curator of decorative arts; Alice Cooney Frelinghusen, curator; Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, associate curator
For: Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age

Recipients: Anita Jacobson, curator, Lower East Side Tenement Museum; Li-Saltzman Architects; Steve Brosnahan, designer; Pamela Koch, artist
For: Restoration of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipients: Community Access Inc., sponsor; Peter L. Wolf, architect
For: Rehabilitation of Gouverneur Court
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Julie L. Sloan, author
For: Conservation of Stained Glass in America: A Manual for Studios and Caretakers
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: William Alex, author
For: Calvert Vaux, Architect and Planner
Award: Citation of Merit


1996
Recipient: Sara Bradford Landau
For: Author of book The New York Skyscraper 1865-1913, written with Carl Condit
Award: Publication Award

Recipients: Judith Saltzman & Kaitsen Woo Li; SBLM/BY 3 Group’s Phil Magnuson; J.D. Carlisle & M.D. Carlisle; Bob Puddicore, Barnes & Noble
For: Sensitive and intelligent renovation of the Century Building that has enriched and invigorated Union Square and the surrounding area
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Terri Bahr, Joanne Jones, Paul Bayard
For: Extensive renovation and system upgrade of the Flushing Town Hall
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipients: Ann Miniberg, archivist for Central Synagogue;Karl Doebley, architect
For: Comprehensive program of restoration of exterior of Central Synagogue
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Morrison Heckscher, curator of architecture. Metropolitan Museum
For: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Architectural History; The Architecture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1890 – an exhibit at the museum
Awards (2) Citation of Merit

Recipient: Richard McDermott
For: New York Chronicle, a quarterly journal celebrating the heritage of Old New York
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Republic National Bank & Platt, Dovell, Architects
For: Williamsburg Savings Bank. Phase One Restoration.
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: University of Chicago Press
For: First 2 volumes of Vera Brodsky Lawrence’s “Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong”
Award: Publication Award


1999
Recipient: Marjorie Pearson
For: Service as Director of Research, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Award: Distinguished Service Award

Recipient: Margot Gayle
For: Outstanding contribution to the preservation of New York City’s historic districts and buildings
Award: Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Vera Brodsky Lawrence
For: Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volumes 1 & 2
Award: Publication Award

Recipients: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Thayer Tolles, Donna Hassler
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 1 – A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Judith Saltzman, Li/Saltzman Architects
For: Phase 1 of restoration of the Williamsburg Savings Bank
Award: Citation of Merit

Recipient: Museum of the City of New York
For: Exhibition and catalog: New York on the Rise: Architectural Renderings by Hughson Hawley 1880-1931

Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art
For: Exhibition – Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer

Recipient: Andrew S. Dolkart
For: Championed preservation of several buildings in areas such as Tribeca, Harlem, Grammercy Park
Award: Preservation Advocacy Award

Recipients: Sara Bradford Landau; New-York Historical Society
For: Exhibition – George B. Post: Great American Architect

Recipients: NewYork Public Library
Davis Brody Bond, architect
For: Restoration of the Rose reading main Room
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Margot Gayle, Carole Gayle
For: co-authored Cast Iron Architecture in America; The Significance of James Bogardus
Award: Publication Award


2000
Recipient: Susan Soros: Bard Graduate Center in the Decorative Arts
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for The Anglo-American Century 1814-1914: Designing an Era (symposium)

Recipient: Susan Soros: Bard Graduate Center in the Decorative Arts
For: The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Brooklyn Museum of Art
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Eastman Johnson: Painting America

Recipient: Landmark West!
Award: Preservation Advocacy

Recipient: Thayer Tolles, Donna J. Hessler & Lauretta Dimmick
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865
Award Publication Award

Recipient: Christopher Forbes
Award: Distinguished Service Award

Recipient: Gabriel Heimann
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: Josephine Morales
Award: London Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: Laurence Kanter, curator
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer


2001
Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catherine Voorsanger and John K. Howat, curators and editors
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Art and the Empire City

Recipient: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Barbara Dayer Gallati and Arthur L. Lehman, curators
For: Exhibition and catalog William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes 1886-1890;

Recipient: Christine Stansell
For: American Moderns: Bohemian New York City and the Creation of a New Century
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Blanche Cirker
Award: Preservation Advocacy

Recipient: Christopher Gray
Award: Preservation Advocacy

Recipient: Hudson River Museum, Michael Botwinick, Director; Paige Ayres Cowley, Architect
For: Glenview Mansion at the Hudson River Museum; restoration of several portions of the interior
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: Mr. & Mrs. K. Terance McGinley; Tim Boyland, architect; and Mary Dierickx, Architectural Preservation Consutant
For: Gardiner-Tyler House addition

Recipient: Ronald G. Pisano
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient: Jane Lowenthal
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient: Sharon Irish
For: Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: U.S. Court of Appeals, 2 nd Circuit
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Cass Gilbert Symposium and Exhibits

Recipient: Rev. Herbert G. Draesel, Jr., Rector
For: Church of the Holy Trinity
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: Rev. Herbert G. Draesel, Jr., Rector
For: The Story of the Church of the Holy Trinity, 1899-1999
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Geert Palmaerts
Award: Newport Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: S. Gabriela Allen
Award: London Summer School Scholarship

Recipient: Metropolitan Museum of Art
For: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume 1 – A Catalog of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer


2002
Recipient: Dover Publications
For: Preservation Advocacy
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Jean Strouse
For: Morgan: American Financier
Award: Publication Award


2003
Recipients: William Dane; Catherine Hoover Voorsanger
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient: Elizabeth De Rosa, Ph.D
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Tiffany: Behind the Glass

Recipient: Amelia Peck
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for “Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design 1875-1900."

Recipient: Leila Philip
For: A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars and Five Families
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: David B. Dearinger, Ph.D
For: Restoration of Emmanuel Baptist Church
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Li Saltzman Architects Architects; Kaitsen Woo Li, architect, Judith Saltzman, architect
For: Restoration of the Nicholas B. and Agnes Benzinger House
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: Bard Graduate School for Studies in Decorative Artsa
For: Exhibition, catalog and related activities for Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001

Recipient: Brooks McNamara
For: The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights
Award: Publication Award

Recipient: Friends of The Woodlawn Cemetary
For: Preservation Advocacy
Award: Preservation Award

Recipient: The 911 Alwyn Court Owners Corporation
For: Restoration of the Alwyn Court apartments
Award: Preservation Award


2005
Recipients: Everett and Evelyn Ortner
Award: Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Richard Guy Wilson
Award: Special Citation

Recipient: New York Transit Museum
Award: Special Citation

Recipient: Arthur Rosenblatt
Award: Memorial Citation

Recipient: New York Landmarks Conservancy
For: Sacred Sites program
Award: Preservation Advocacy

Recipient: Mud Lane Society
For: The renaissance of Stapleton
Award: Grassroots Preservation

Recipients: Rothzeid, Kaiserman, Thomson & Bee; Jablonski-Berkowitz Conservation
For: Restoration New York Cancer Hospital
Award: Preservation Award

Recipients: Beyer Blinder Belle; Robert Silman Associates PC; Integrated Conservation Resources
For: Tiffany & Company Building

Recipients: H3 Hardy Collaberation; Building Conservation Associates; Boston Valley Terra Cotta; Graciano Corp.; David Kucera Inc.
For: Brooklyn Academy of Music


2006
Recipients: Central Park Conservancy
Award: Preservation Advocacy

Recipients: Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History , Award: Grassroots Preservation

Recipient: Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives at Columbia’s Avery Architetural and Fine Arts Library
Award: Special Citation

Recipient: Opera Orchestra of New York (Eve Queler, Director)
Award: Special Citation

Recipients: New York Economic Development Corporation; Jan Hird Pokorny Architects; Tishman Construction Corp.; Robert Silman Associates
Award: Restoration
For: The Battery-Maritime Building Restoration

Recipients: The Kibel Company; H. Thomas O'Hara Architect; Facade Maintenance Design; Levine Builders; Seaboard Weatherproofing & Restoration Company; Desimone Consulting Engineers
Award: Restoration
For: 90 West Street Restoration

Recipients: Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio and Nina Gray
Award: Catalogue
For: A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement

Recipient: Nancy E. Green of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Award: Catalogue and Exhibition
For: Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony

Recipient: Kenneth D. Ackerman
Award: Publication
For: Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York


2007
Recipient: Barnet Schecter
Award: Social History
For: The Devil’s Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America

Recipient: Debby Applegate
Award: Biography
For: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

Recipient: William D. Moore
Award: Building Typology
For: Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes

Recipient: Nancy L. Todd
Award: Building Typology
For: New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History

Recipients: Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore

Recipients: Kate Lemos, William Morrison, Charles D. Warren, and Mark Alan Hewitt
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: Carrere & Hastings, Architects

Recipients: Kate Lemos, William Morrison, Charles D. Warren, and Mark Alan Hewitt
Award: Architecture Monograph
For: Carrere & Hastings, Architects

Recipients: Barbara Cohen-Stratyner (curator), Jacqueline Z. Davis (exec. dir.); New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Award: Exhibition
For: Vaudeville Nation

Recipients: Mary Sue Sweeney Price (dir.), Holly Pyne Connor, Mary Kate O’Hare, Sarah Burns, and Mary W. Blanchard; The Newark Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase, and Sargent

Recipients: Paul Warwick Thompson (dir.), Gail S. Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates, Barbara Bloemink, Sarah Burns, and Karal Ann Marling; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape

Recipients: Joan Rosenbaum (dir.), Karen Levitov, Carol J. Ockman, Kenneth E. Silver, Janis Bergman-Carton, and Suzanne Schwartz Zuber; The Jewish Museum
Award: Exhibition/Catalogue
For: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama

Recipients: Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Ruth J. Abram, pres.) and Andrew S. Dolkart
Award: Special Citation
For: Biography of a Tenement House in New York City

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