The AIA Historic Resources Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition.
A student competition of measured drawings, the Charles E. Peterson Prize is presented jointly by the Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, by the American Institute of Architects, and by the Association for Preservation Technology.
The annual competition, currently in its 42nd year, honors 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/HAER/HALS collection of measured drawings at the Library of Congress. In addition to generating over 7,400 sheets of drawings for the collection to date, the competition presented awards totaling $19,000 to this year’s winning student teams.
First Place in the 2025 Competition was awarded to the student team from Kent State University, under the direction of Professor Emily Steiner Little, AIA, for their documentation of the Jagger House at Hale Farm & Village, an 1845 Greek Revival house near Everett, Ohio.
Mojtaba Saffarian, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, under the direction of Senior Research Associate John Hinchman, was awarded Second Place for her drawings of the George Nakashima House (1948) in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Third Place was awarded for the documentation of the Riverside Public Library (1930) in Riverside, Illinois, by the student team from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, under the direction of Professor Charles Pipal, AIA.
An Honorable Mention was awarded to the student team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, under the direction of Professor Amanda Wagner, for their documentation of the Bayfield Fish Hatchery (1897) in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
A list of the student members for the winning teams can be found on the HDP website at:
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/heritagedocumentation/peterson-prize-winners.htm
The 2025 Peterson Prize Awards was presented as part of a special ceremony at the Association for Preservation Technology Conference in Providence on November 14.
Congratulations to all the winners!