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2024 Preservation Awards | The Babcock Building
Thursday, May 16th 2024
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2024 Preservation Awards | Janie Campbell
Thursday, May 16th 2024
According to City of Columbia Historic Preservation Planner Amy Moore, “If you look around downtown, it would be challenging to find a block with a building(s) that Janie hasn’t touched!” Projects for which Janie has served as preservation consultant represent more than $38 million of rehabilitation investments and include such beloved local landmarks as the W.B. Smith Whaley house, Claussen’s Bakery, Lula Drake, Hotel Trundle and its Flutter Wing, the Wade Campbell House (FemmeX), the Curtiss-Wright Hangar, McCants School, the Equitable Arcade Mall, the Ehrlich Building (Smoked), and the Hair Building (All Good Books).
2024 Preservation Awards | GBX Group LLC
Thursday, May 16th 2024
For more than a decade, GBX Group LLC and its partners have played a critical role in revitalizing Columbia’s Main Street Historic District, with the goal of transforming it into a vibrant retail, residential, and commercial corridor. GBX has worked alongside public and private-sector partners to repurpose and transform 13 buildings in 13 years, with the objective of bringing economic and community growth and prosperity to the historic downtown.
2024 Preservation Awards | Eurytania & Brown Buildings
Thursday, May 16th 2024
For years as other historic buildings along Main Street benefited from sensitive rehabilitation, the ca.-1901 Brown and ca.-1938 Eurytania buildings stood poised for reinvestment. Under the ownership of the Middleton family, the buildings recently underwent an extensive, historically sensitive revitalization. Directed by architect Scott Lambert, Mashburn Construction restored the Eurytania...
2023 Preservation Award | Karen Quinn
Friday, May 12th 2023
Inspired by stories buried and awaiting discovery, Karen Quinn has nurtured a lifelong passion for history and a good mystery. As architect and project manager with BOUDREAUX, Karen has become the firm’s leader in historic preservation-based commissions, shepherding the rehabilitation of numerous historic treasures in Columbia and beyond.
2023 Preservation Award | Dr. Charles H. Lesser
Friday, May 12th 2023
A resident of 309 Fulton Street in Columbia’s historic Hollywood-Rose Hill neighborhood, Dr. Charles H. (Chuck) Lesser has been a local tour de force in the fields of archives, history, and historic preservation advocacy for nearly five decades.
2023 Preservation Award | 2901 Rosewood Drive
Friday, May 12th 2023
Generations of Columbians formerly knew 2901 Rosewood Drive as home to Rosewood Baptist Church. Today, as 5th & Sloan, 2901 Rosewood Drive stands as a new mixed-use, long- and short-term rental apartments, complemented by restaurant and retail tenant spaces.
2023 Preservation Award | 3804 Palmetto Avenue
Friday, May 12th 2023
Situated on a sizable lot in the early Columbia suburb originally known as Park Place, 3804 Palmetto Avenue was erected as a one bedroom/one bathroom residence sometime between the 1920s and 1930s.
2023 Preservation Award | 734 Harden Street
Friday, May 12th 2023
Located at 734 Harden Street in the Five Points National Register Historic District, the Hair Building dates to about 1921, distinguishing it as one of the village’s oldest commercial buildings.
2023 Preservation Award | 1813 Main Street
Friday, May 12th 2023
Standing within the Columbia Commercial Historic District, the Klondike Building was constructed in 1961 following a design by the notable architectural firm of Lafaye, Fair, Lafaye and Associates.