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Established by the Center in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation professionals to the book deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the field of historic preservation in the United States. In making its selection, the jury focuses on books which break new ground or contribute to the intellectual vitality of the preservation movement. Entries may come from any of the disciplines that relate to the theory or practice of historic preservation. Nominations may be made by any source.
2012 BOOK PRIZE CANDIDATES
JURY
Michael Spencer, University of Mary Washington (Chair)
Ashley Wilson, Clemson University
Mike Klein, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group
Christina Turdean, University of Mary Washington
Sarah Sanders ’13 (student juror), University of Mary Washington
2012 BOOK PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT
In order for a book to be eligible for the 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize, it must be first available in the United States between January 1, and December 31, 2011. Letters of nomination and six (6) copies of the nominated book must be postmarked by January 6, 2012, and sent to:
Andrea Livi Smith, Book Prize Chair
Center for Historic Preservation
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue, Combs 134
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300
Announcement of the book selected for the 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize will be made during Preservation Week in May 2012. The author will receive a check in the amount of $500.00 and will be invited to deliver a lecture at The University of Mary Washington. Both the author and the publisher will receive certificates in recognition of the award.
PREVIOUS BOOK PRIZE WINNERS
| 1989 | David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country |
| 1990 TIE | Samuel N. Stokes and A. Elizabeth Watson and others, Saving America’s Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation and T. H. Breen, Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories |
| 1991 | Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury and Ernest H. Wood, Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building |
| 1992 | Daniel Bluestone, Constructing Chicago |
| 1993 | Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park |
| 1994 | Martha K. Norkunas, The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California |
| 1995 | Carl R. Lounsbury, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter Hudgins, Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture |
| 1997 | Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory |
| 1998 | Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy |
| 1999 | Roy R. Rosenzweig, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life |
| 2000 | Richard Longstreth, The Drive-In, The Supermarket, and The Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 |
| 2001 | Daniel, Reiff, Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950 |
| 2002 | Joseph C. Biggott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929 |
| 2003 | Susan L. Klaus, A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens |
| 2004 | Nancy S. Seasholes, Gaining Ground, A History of Landmaking in Boston |
| 2005 | Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It |
| 2006 | Stephanie Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston |
| 2010 | Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation |
| 2011 | Lois Olcott Price, Line, Shade and Shadow |
