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BEST OF THE SOUTH PRESERVING SOUTHERN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

All Award Winners

2011

winner is the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program of the Texas Historical Commission.

2010

Albert and Associates, Architects, for their restoration and adaptation of the E. 6th Street USO Club in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

2009

The Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and the state of Mississippi for the restoration of Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, in Biloxi, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The meticulous restoration effort was led by Albert & Associates Architects, of Hattiesburg, whose work at Beauvoir continues to receive accolades, including an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.

2008

The Preservation Trust of Spartanburg, South Carolina, for its innovative street-wide approach to countering the problem of urban decline and abandonment in the historic Hampton Heights neighborhood, specifically along Carlisle Street.

2007

McMillan Smith & Partners Architects, PLLC, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, for the restoration of Walker Hall at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind. Founded in 1849, the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind enriched the lives of generations of sensory disabled students. Architect Edward C. Jones designed Walker Hall as the centerpiece of the campus in 1859; the building was expanded by famed architects Samuel Sloan of Philadelphia (1884) and Edwards & Sayward of Atlanta (1921).

2006

The Coastal Heritage Society of Savannah, Georgia, for their preservation, restoration and adaptive use of the mid nineteenth-century Roundhouse Railroad Museum Complex in Savannah.

ABOUT SESAH

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is a regional chapter of the national Society of Architectural Historians and includes twelve states - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

The nonprofit organization holds an annual meeting, publishes a quarterly newsletter and an annual journal, ARRIS, and presents annual awards, including the "Best of the South" preservation award.

SESAH was founded in 1982 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to promote scholarship on architecture and related subjects and to serve as a forum for ideas among architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others involved in professions related to the built environment. The annual meeting features scholarly paper sessions, business meeting, study tours, and a keynote lecture by a national leader in the field. SESAH members come from across the U.S.

and Southeast Chapter Society of Architectural Historians

Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, before renovation

Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, after renovation