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Nominations open for 2012 Good Brick Awards

August 10, 2011
Good Brick Awards

Greater Houston Preservation Alliance is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Good Brick Awards for excellence in historic preservation. Updated guidelines and nomination forms are available online at www.ghpa.org/awards. All entries must be received at GHPA’s office by 3 p.m. Monday, September 12, 2011.

To qualify, preservation projects must be located within Harris County and must have been completed within the last three years. Commercial, residential and institutional projects are eligible for awards. If qualified entries are received, GHPA may also present Good Bricks for heritage education programs, stewardship of historic properties, landscape design, books and craftsmen.

Anyone may submit a nomination. In the case of building projects, the nominee must be the property owner who carried out the project. Nominating yourself will not affect your chances for receiving an award.

A jury of preservation and design professionals, community leaders and previous award winners selects the Good Brick recipients. Former Houston Chronicle home design editor and GHPA Board Secretary Madeleine McDermott Hamm will serve as jury chair. The Good Brick Awards will be presented during GHPA’s Cornerstone Dinner in early 2012.

Good Brick Award winners featured in Houston House & Home

January 13, 2011
Good Brick Awards

The January issue of Houston House & Home magazine includes a major feature on two of this year’s Good Brick Award-winning projects.

The article by House & Home editor Sandra Cook includes Deborah Keyser and James Stafford’s renovation of the National Cash Register Co. Building, pictured, in downtown Houston and Taryn Kinney and Michael Morrow’s rehabilitation of their Gulf Coast cottage in the Old Sixth Ward Historic District.

The article featuring the Good Brick Award winners begins on page 34 of the online version of Houston House & Home.

The 2011 Good Brick Awards will be presented during the Cornerstone Dinner at 7 p.m., Friday, February 4, at River Oaks Country Club. Phoebe and Bobby Tudor and Susan and Gene Vaughan are co-chairs for the event.

GHPA is now accepting reservations for the Cornerstone Dinner. Make your reservations online or call 713-216-5000.

Photo: National Cash Register Co. Building (1929, Joseph Finger; photo by Melanie Miller)

Meet the 2009 Good Brick winners

September 2, 2009
Good Brick Awards

The Good Brick Awards have been given since 1979 to recognize local contributions to the preservation, restoration and enhancement of Houston’s architectural and cultural heritage. The 2009 winners are:

• The Clayton family for its commitment to preservation of the Clayton Library
• Tim Beeson for 609 Heights Boulevard, a turn-of-the-century William A. Wilson house
• Pam Lowe for her neighborhood preservation projects in Woodland Heights
• 1102 Yale, LP, for the Yale Street Retail Center, the restoration of a 1936 Art Deco shopping center in the Heights
• Houston Independent School District for the restoration of John H. Reagan High School
• Mary Elizabeth and Kurt Hahnfeld for the restoration of 22 Willowend, a mid-century modern home in Hunters Creek
• Dana Antake-Horning and Jeff Horning for the restoration of 12923 Memorial Drive, a landmark modern home in Memorial Bend
• Area 16 Homes for 706 West Sawyer Street, a “green” renovation of a bungalow in the Old Sixth Ward Protected Historic District
• Friends of Wharton for their effort to save William H. Wharton Elementary School in Montrose
• Houston Mod for its Mod of the Month program
• Friends of the Texas Room for In Search of Houston’s History, a documentary about the historical resources in the Houston Public Library’s Houston Metropolitan Research Center

About the Good Brick Awards
The Good Brick Awards have been given since 1979 to recognize local contributions to the preservation, restoration, and enhancement of Houston’s architectural and cultural heritage. Nomination categories include the renovation, restoration, or adaptive use of a building; new buildings or sympathetic additions that enhance the existing historic fabric of Houston; recognition for the craftspeople who continually maintain, build, and restore our important buildings and cultural fabric; preservation-related programs or activities; project planning; publications; and outstanding service or leadership in preservation.

Anyone may submit a nomination, including those individuals who have undertaken the project, their neighbors or other property owners, architects, contractors, businesses, institutions or members of the community at large. The projects must be located in Harris County and must have been completed within the last three years.

Nominations for the Good Brick Awards must be submitted using the official nomination form. A nomination package will include the nomination form, a project summary in two pages or less, and photographs, if applicable. Each nomination must be in a binder. If you are nominating more than one project, each entry must be in a separate binder. Nominations will not be accepted via e-mail.