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6612
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The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr., Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in the state. “The Cedars†in Morganton was built by a local planter in 1841. In 1999, when outside developers wanted to purchase and demolish the historic property, the Morganton Federal Savings and Loan purchased the property from them and accomplished a $3.2 million dollar restoration of the site. For its preservation efforts, the company received the 2003 Vincent Lowe award.
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6615
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The Minnette C. Duffy Award is the state's highest award for the preservation, restoration, or maintenance of grounds related to historic structures. Classical American Homes Preservation Trust received the award for 2003. The trust, established by North Carolina native Richard Jenrette, is a private non-profit organization dedicated to preserving outstanding examples of 18th and 19th century American homes.
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The Robert E. Stipe Award is the state's highest award given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their job. F. Mitchell Wild, a restoration specialist in the NC Preservation Office's Restoration Branch, received the award for 2003. Mitchell has worked on numerous rehabilitation/restoration projects, including the Chowan County Courthouse and the Governor's Mansion. He “exemplifies the consummate preservation professional with his in-depth technical knowledge, his friendly and tactful demeanor, and his unflagging commitment to preservation.â€
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The 2003 Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award, North Carolina's most prestigious preservation award, was presented to Dr. E. Newsom Williams for his longtime commitment to historic preservation. Williams has served as president of the New Bern Preservation Foundation, the New Bern Historical Society, and Preservation NC. He has also rehabilitated numerous historic houses in New Bern, individually or through a partnership.
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The Stedman Incentive Grant, worth $5,000, assists non-profit organizations in efforts to save endangered architecturally and historically significant property. Save Historic Lowe's Grove, a grass-roots citizens group, received the 2003 Stedman Incentive Grant for its work toward saving the historic Lowe's Grove School in Durham. Established in 1901, the school is Durham's first and only remaining farm life school.
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. Among the winners this year were Northwestern Housing Enterprises for restoration of the Elk Park School, built in Avery County between 1935 and 1938; the Pitt County Historical Society for restoration of the 1893 Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church; and Elmer Lam, a member of the North Carolina Transportation Museum board, for his work in helping to preserve the history of the North Carolina railroad system.
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The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr., Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in the state. Frank Gailor and his family-run development company, Hedgehog Holdings, received the 2004 award for his work in the historic rehabilitation of Raleigh's Pilot Mill. The mill was one of six cotton mills built in Raleigh in the 19th-century.
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The Minnette C. Duffy Award is the state's highest award for the preservation, restoration, or maintenance of grounds related to historic structures. David Dethero, who left a successful career as an Atlanta banker in 1971 to run Hurricane Nursery near Flat Rock, received the award for 2004. He has devoted much time, talent, and resources to renewing the graveyard of St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church in Flat Rock. Built in 1833, the church is the oldest Episcopal Church in the western diocese of North Carolina.
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7154
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The Robert E. Stipe Award is the state's highest award given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their job. Barbara Wishy, the director of the Endangered Properties Program for Preservation North Carolina since 1991, received the award for 2004. Over the years Wishy has restored more than a dozen historic homes, sold hundreds of endangered historic homes to people for restoration, and helped make it possible for hundreds more to be saved.
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The 2004 Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award, North Carolina's most prestigious preservation award, was presented to Sylvia C. Nash for her support of numerous state preservation projects with time, leadership, and finances. Nash has been active in historic preservation for a number of years. She was a founding member of the Edgecombe Historical Society, instrumental in saving two rare landmarks in Tarboro, and involved in securing National Register designation for Tarboro's historic district.
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The Stedman Incentive Grant, worth $5,000, assists non-profit organizations in efforts to save endangered architecturally and historically significant property. St. Joseph's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, organized by black Episcopalians in 1873, received the 2004 grant to assist in roof repairs. The church was built in 1896, and consecrated in 1897. St. Joseph's complex includes the parish hall and parsonage, all linked by arcades and unified by dark green shingled walls. The stained glass windows are among the last windows that were designed and made by Tiffany & Company of New York. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. Among the 2005 winners were the town of Woodville for preservation of the 1847 St. Francis Methodist Church and Hank and Diane Parfitt for their rehabilitation of Fayetteville's 19th century Rat Building.
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Preservation North Carolina presented its 2005 preservation awards to the following recipients: Lucy Penegar (Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award); Angelo Franceschina (Robert E. Stipe Professional Award); Capitol Broadcasting Co. (L. Vincent Lowe, Jr. Business Award); The Friends of Woodlawn, Inc. (Stedman Incentive Grant); and Larry Horne and Ron Phillips (Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation award).
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The Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit recognizes organizations and individuals demonstrating strong commitment to promotion of historical preservation. Among the 2006 winners are Fayetteville and the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for acquiring the condemned 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Depot and rehabilitating it into a transportation museum and Brooks Graham's restoration of her mother's antebellum farmhouse, the Farrish-Lambeth House in Sanford.
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Preservation North Carolina presented its 2006 historic preservation awards to the following recipients: Old Salem, Inc. (Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation Award); Hickory Landmarks Society (Stedman Incentive Grant); Reid Thomas (Robert E, Stipe Professional Award); and Greg Hatem, Empire Properties, Raleigh (L. Vincent Lowe, Jr., Business Award).
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