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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.

2013 BOOK PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT

In order for a book to be eligible for the 2013 Historic Preservation Book Prize, it must be first available in the United States between January 1, and December 31, 2012. Letters of nomination and six (6) copies of the nominated book must be postmarked by January 30, 2013, 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 2013 Historic Preservation Book Prize will be made during Preservation Week in May 2013. 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.

2013 BOOK PRIZE CANDIDATES

Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State Cynthia Falk Cornell University Press
Bottoms Up: a Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Building Museums: a Handbook for Small and Midsize Organizations Robert Herskovitz, Timothy Glines and David Grabitske Minnesota Historical Society Press
Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010 Judith Gura W.W. Norton
Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship Marla Collum, Barbara Krueger and Dorothy Kostuch (Eds) Wayne State University Press
Historic Preservation Law Sarah Bronin and J. Peter Byrne Foundation Press
In the Shadow of the United States Capitol: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Mayberry Johnson New Academia
Legendary Homes of the Minneapolis Lakes Karen Melvin and Bette Hammel Minnesota Historical Society Press
Long Island Modernism: 1930-1980 Caroline Rob Zaleski W.W. Norton
Michigan’s Historic Railroad Stations Michael Hodges Wayne State University Press
Preservation Politics: Keeping Historic Districts Vital Bill Schmickle Alta Mira Press
Railroad Stations: the Buildings that Linked the Nation David Naylor W. W. Norton
Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster Andrea Rees Davies Temple University Press
Stewardship of the Built Environment Robert Young Island Press
SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City Paul Kapp and Paul Armstrong (Eds) University of Illinois Press
Texas Furniture: the Cabinetmakers and Their Work 1840-1880 (Vol. 2) Lonn Taylor and David Warren University of Texas Press
The Archaeology of the Caddo Timothy Perttula and Chester Walker (Eds) University of Nebraska Press

JURY

Cristina Turdean, University of Mary Washington (Chair)
Julia King, Saint Mary’s College
Jason Vaughan, Baltimore National Heritage Area
Kaitlin O’Shea, Vermont Agency of Transportation
Gary Stanton, University of Mary Washington
Sarah Sanders ’13 (student juror), University of Mary Washington

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
2012 Jeffrey Chusid,
 Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity