Read about our 2010 Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Award Recipients below. You can see all years of award recipients here.
Completed in 1930 and named for the neighboring fountain, the Buckingham is a 27-story Art Deco building designed by Holabird & Root, located near Michigan Avenue and facing Grant Park. Vacated in 2002, however, the building was largely ignored by its owner.
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Preservation summer is an interdisciplinary, community oriented class for graduates and undergraduates. Each summer a different hands-on history and/or preservation project is completed by the students and “community listeners.”
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The preservation of the tiny Ogle County town of Polo is due to the efforts of two entities: the Polo Historical Society and the preservation partnership of Jim O’Connor and Christina Lee-Grogan.
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Carolyn Oxtoby has spent over three decades advocating for the preservation of historic buildings in Springfield, particularly in its downtown, where commercial buildings have often been threatened with demolition and replacement.
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Built in 1872, Harlan Hall served as the town’s opera house, with a stable on the first floor; it later served as a Moose Lodge. After being threatened with demolition to become a parking lot, the building attracted the attention of local advocates who pushed for saving it.
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These three buildings (Haskell and Barker, 1875; Atwater, 1877) are part of the Sullivan Center, and are some of the earliest post-fire commercial buildings. Built in a Classical Revival style, they feature two Sullivan facades (1896) and elaborate masonry cornices.
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Built in 1911 as part of the Chautauqua Movement in New York and central Illinois, the pavilion in Kitchell park was constructed to be the permanent home of Pana’s annual Chautauqua events.
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This historic (1852) church, one of the oldest buildings in Quincy, had undergone a series of renovations over its life. A lightning strike in August 2002 caused significant fire damage to the roof, original nave and tower and several more recent additions.
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South Water Market, designed by Fugard and Knapps and built in 1925, served as the major produce distribution market in Chicago, the largest of its type at the time of construction. Six warehouses occupy the site, the longest being over 800 feet, and have matching terra cotta facades.
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