2025 Preservation Awards
Each year, Historic Wilmington Foundation honors the very special people enacting our mission through exemplary preservation efforts in the following categories: Adaptive Reuse, Rehabilitation, Appropriate New Construction, Restoration and Interior Preservation.
Did you restore your historic home, renovate an old building for your new business, or rehabilitate a structure (or multiple!) that’s 50 years or older this year? Know someone who has? Nominations are now open for HWF’s renowned Preservation Awards. Nominate yourself or someone else before April 25, 2025.
If you need assistance accessing the nomination form or have any other questions, call the office to speak with Karla Berrios, Operations Coordinator: 910.762.2511. You can also click here to email Karla: berrios@historicwilmington.org.
CATEGORIES
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Adaptive Reuse: a building that is preserved through a new use that maximizes the retention of distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
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Restoration: a building that accurately reflects the form, features, and character of the building as it appeared at a particular period of time by replacing missing elements, removing later elements, and limiting modern upgrades required to make the property functional.
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Rehabilitation: a building that is repaired and/or altered while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values.
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Appropriate New Construction: new construction that maintains a visual distinction between old and new while maintaining a respect for the character, mass, and materials of the adjacent historic buildings.
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Interior Preservation: interior scopes of work that preserve the historic character of a property by maximizing the retention of distinctive materials, features, finishes, construction techniques, spaces, and spatial relationships.
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