The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition. A student competition of measured drawings, the Charles E. Peterson Prize is presented jointly by HDP, by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, by the American Institute of Architects, and by the Association for Preservation Technology. The annual competition, currently in its 41st 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 $20,000 to this year's winning student teams.
First Place in the 2024 Competition was awarded to the student team from Ball State University, under the direction of Professor Jonathan Spodek, FAIA, for their documentation of Eero Saarinen's J. Irwin and Xenia Miller House (1953) in Columbus, Indiana. Thomas Lozanovski, a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, under the direction of Professor Michelangelo Sabatino, was awarded Second Place for his drawings of the 1939 Francis J. Benda and Sylvia Valha House in Riverside, Illinois. Third Place was awarded for the documentation of The Kiva (1939) at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, by the student team from the University of Texas at San Antonio, under the direction of Professor Sue Ann Pemberton, FAIA. Professor Spodek's team from Ball State was also awarded an Honorable Mention, for their set of drawings of the District School No. 2, an 1891 one-room country schoolhouse near Eaton, Indiana. A second Honorable Mention was awarded to the student team from Yale University, under the direction of Professor Alan Plattus, for their documentation of the Parsons Family Concessions Tent (ca 1890) at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
A list of the student members for the winning teams can be found on the HDP website at Peterson Prize Winners - Heritage Documentation Programs (U.S. National Park Service)
Sample drawing sheets from the winning projects can be found on the HDP Facebook page at Facebook
The 2024 Peterson Prize Awards will be presented as part of a special ceremony at the Traditional Building Conference in Savannah on 23 October.
Congratulations to all the winners!
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Mark Schara AIA
National Park Service
Washington DC
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