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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 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 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 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 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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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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