Historic Resources Committee

HABS Announces Winners of 2015 Peterson Prize

  • 1.  HABS Announces Winners of 2015 Peterson Prize

    Posted 08-26-2015 03:11 PM

    A student competition of measured drawings, the Charles E. Peterson Prize is presented jointly by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, and the American Institute of Architects.  The annual competition, currently in its 33rd year, honors longtime NPS architect Charles E. Peterson, FAIA (1906-2004), a founder of the HABS program, and is intended to heighten awareness about historic buildings in the United States and to augment the HABS collection of measured drawings at the Library of Congress.  In addition to generating over 6,300 sheets of drawings for the collection to date, the competition presents awards totaling $7,500 to the winning student teams.

    First Place in the 2015 Peterson Prize was awarded to the student team from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, under the direction of professors Claudia Rosa Lopez and Jose Lorenzo Torres, who documented the Casa Weichers-Villaronga in Ponce, Puerto Rico.  The student team from Montana State University, under the direction of Professor Maire O'Neill, was awarded Second Place for their drawings of the Damon Gabriel Homestead near Four Corners, Montana.  The documentation of the Charles Augustus Magwood House in Charleston, South Carolina, by students from Clemson University / College of Charleston, under the direction of Professor Amalia Leifeste, was awarded Third Place.  An honorable Mention was awarded to the student team from the Savannah College of Art and Design, under the direction of Professor Chad Keller, for their documentation of the Carnegie Library in Savannah, Georgia.  Congratulations to all the winning teams!

    Jurors for the 2015 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition were Hyman Myers, FAIA, President of Preservation Consultants, LLC, representing the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; Sue Ann Pemberton, FAIA, Director of the Center for Architectural Engagement at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Principal at Mainstreet Architects Inc., and Chair of the AIA-HABS Coordinating Committee, representing the American Institute of Architects; and Mark Schara, AIA, HABS Architect, representing the National Park Service.

    More information on this year's winning projects can be found on the Heritage Documentation Programs website at http://www.nps.gov/hdp/competitions/Peterson_winners.htm.



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    Mark Schara AIA
    National Park Service
    Washington DC
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