Read about our 2008 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award Recipients below. You can see all years of award recipients here.
This frame Queen Anne residence was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1892 while he was still working for Adler & Sullivan. Over the years, numerous alterations had obscured the original floor plan and architectural details.
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Incorporated in 1982, the Galena Foundation has had over 25 years of success educating the public on the significance of their local architecture and raising funds for its ongoing maintenance.
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Under Karen Lang Kummer’s leadership over the past two decades, the Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign County (PACA) has orchestrated funding for community and University of Illinois architectural surveys.
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The location of this church at Addison and Broadway was outside the Chicago city limits at the time of its completion in 1888. This allowed architect John Welborn Root the freedom to create an intricately patterned exterior of cedar wood shingles, a material that was banned following the Fire of 1871.
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What started as an effort to save one troubled building from demolition has given rise to a new local Main Street program for the Jacksonville community. In 2005, a dilapidated multi-family residence went through foreclosure and was slated for demolition.
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After more than a decade of vacancy and a failed retail development in the late 1980s, the Romanesque Revival-style train station was purchased by the state and occupied by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency throughout the 1990s.
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This Modernist library, completed in 1960 and designed by Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, is his only structure in Chicago. Saarinen’s best-known works include the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and flight terminals at both Dulles and JFK International airports.
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This Italianate house was constructed in 1858 for E.M. West, a delegate to the 1848 Illinois Constitutional Convention who was instrumental in securing Edwardsville as the county seat. In 1940 the house was converted into a funeral home.
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This 1913 board-and-batten clubhouse was designed by the Prairie School architect William Drummond, Frank Lloyd Wright’s chief draftsman. His design has been recognized in Frederick Koeper’s 1968 publication, Illinois Architecture, where it was compared stylistically to Wright’s masterpiece Unity Temple.
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