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Pride of Saline—Historic Preservation Award

The Pride of Saline Historic Preservation Award is a program designed to recognize outstanding contributions to the preserva-tion and revitalization of Saline’s historic properties and resources. This annual award focuses on exterior projects and properties throughout the city, not just in our three established Historic Districts.

A selection committee composed of citizens, Historic District Commissioners and Saline Area Historical Society members will accept nominations in April each year. The committee evaluates each nomi-nated property in relation to the program’s criteria.
All nominees will be recognized with lawn signs that will be placed for the month of May. The committee will select and notify award recipients early in May, which has been designated as “National Historic Preservation Month” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Pride of Saline award recipients will receive a special gift at an award ceremony to be held in May.

GENERAL AWARD CRITERIA

  • Only exterior projects/properties located in the City of Saline are eligible for consideration.
  • Projects must have been completed within the last two years.
  • Nominations will be judged, as applicable, according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
  • Awards need not be awarded in each category every year.

Preservation: the act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, in-tegrity, and materials of an historic property. Work generally focuses upon the ongoing maintenance and repair of historic materials and features rather than extensive replacement and new construction.

Restoration: the act or process of accurately depicting the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing fea-tures from the restoration period. The limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make properties functional is appropriate within a restoration project.

Rehabilitation: the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values.

Award Categories

  • Restoration Award – Residential For an outstanding restoration of a historic residential property
  • Restoration Award – Commercial/Other For an outstanding restoration of a historic commercial, religious, educational or other property
  • Rehabilitation Award – Residential For an exceptional rehabilitation of a historic residential property
  • Rehabilitation Award – Commercial/Other For an exceptional rehabilitation of a historic commercial, religious, educational or other property
  • New Construction Award For the sensitive design and careful construction of:
    • a new structure which has a direct relational impact on surrounding historic properties
    • an addition or major change to an existing historic property.
  • Stewardship Award - For consistent, sensitive and long-standing mainte-nance of an historic property.