Covington’s Historic Preservation Office is accepting nominations for the Covington Preservation Excellence Awards.
The awards recognize individuals or organizations for preservation projects completed between January and December 2024. The deadline for nominations is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1. The city’s Economic Development Department will determine the winners.
Nomination forms can be accessed at the Covington Preservation Excellence Award Program webpage.
“Award-winning projects will embody the goals of preserving, protecting, and celebrating Covington’s built heritage and its unique sense of place,” Covington Historic Preservation Officer Kaitlin Bryan said in a press release.
Awards will be given in five categories:
- Exterior Restoration-Residential: historic residential projects that have restored the exterior of the building in which the architect, contractor, or owner expressed exceptional care in respecting the historic fabric and/or setting of the property. Projects have intact historic materials and detailing that warrant a restoration.
- Exterior Restoration Mixed-Use/Commercial: historic mixed-use or commercial structures that have restored the exterior of the building in which the architect, contractor, or owner expressed exceptional care in respecting the historic fabric and/or setting of the property. These projects have intact historic materials and detailing that warrant a restoration.
- Adaptive Re-use Residential: successful adaptive reuse of a residential property in the design of new and different uses for an existing building in which the historic materials and fabric of the property were retained and used as a prime element in the design of the project.
- Adaptive Re-use Mixed-Use Commercial: successful adaptive reuse of a mixed-use or commercial property in the design of new and different uses for an existing building in which the historic materials and fabric of a property were retained and used as a prime element in the design of the project.
- Interior Excellence: a project, either residential, mixed-use, or commercial, that demonstrates outstanding achievement in historic preservation, restoration, or rehabilitation of the interior of a building.
This year’s award ceremony will be held during the 2025 National Economic Development Week, May 11 – 17, in conjunction with the Covington Authenti-CITY awards. Specifics to the ceremony’s location, date, and time are not yet available.
