It’s time to submit your nominations for LTHP’s list of Most Endangered Places and the 2023 Louisiana Preservation Awards! If there is a site in your community that needs attention or is threatened to be lost, submit an online nomination form here. We especially encourage nominations from underrepresented parishes that have yet to be highlighted: Red River, West Carroll, Catahoula, Concordia, Allen, Jefferson Davis, Evangeline, Pointe Coupee, St. Martin, St. Helena, Assumption and St. Bernard.
Most Endangered Places
Since 1999, the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation has maintained the LOUISIANA’S MOST ENDANGERED PLACES LIST, and advocated to save these threatened sites.
Please help us identify threatened historic buildings and sites across our state by completing a Most Endangered Places Nomination Form (online or hard copy) below. Sites are selected based on their historic integrity and the likelihood to bring about a positive resolution to their situation or to those of similar sites.
Preservation Awards
Each year the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation honors individuals, organizations, and businesses for their impactful efforts to save historic places, build pride, and foster engagement in their communities. Awardees have been nominated and selected based on:
– Significance and magnitude of the nominee’s contributions and/or achievements
– Consistent or innovative involvement with and commitment to culture
– Benefit of the nominee’s contributions to Louisiana’s cultural understanding
Award Categories for 2023:
Main Street Award
Recognizes a Main Street community that exemplifies the strategic use of creativity, historic preservation and/or culture to build a climate for cultural expression, improve quality of life, enhance existing assets and strengthen economic opportunity while respecting the quality of the area.
Education Award
Recognizes an individual or organization that, through educational efforts, helped broaden appreciation for the importance of value of historic preservation in Louisiana.
Leadership Award
Recognizes an individual that is making or has made a significant contribution to the advocacy and/or promotion of historic preservation, or the development of his or her cultural discipline in a community, region, or state.
Organizational Excellence Award
Recognizes an organization that successfully leveraged assets to provide greater cultural value to its region within the state such as a heritage tourism project, or restoration /preservation effort such as adaptive reuse.
Stewardship Award
Recognizing exemplary historic preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction projects that adhere to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. Awards may be presented to a residential or non-residential property, whether privately or publicly owned. Nominations must be for projects completed within the last three years.
Diverse Heritage Award
Recognizing achievements in the promotion and preservation of Louisiana’s multicultural or underserved heritage. Projects eligible for this award include rehabilitation or restoration projects, interpretive programs, heritage leadership or other activities that re-examine, emphasize or further our understanding of the diverse heritage of Louisiana.
Living Trades Award
Recognizing individuals that have continued to use a traditional technique or method in construction to achieve authenticity in the preservation, restoration or reconstruction of historic resources on a project within Louisiana. The technique must be one that is considered both artistic in nature and rare in today’s construction practices.
Louisiana Heritage Media Award
Recognizing outstanding works published or produced within the last two years (journalism, films, books, websites or other media) on Louisiana historic preservation themes, topics, issues, projects or local history and architecture.
Sue Turner Preservationist of the Year Award
Recognizes the efforts of an individual that made a significant contribution to historic preservation in Louisiana.
Winnie Byrd Preservationist Extraordinaire Award
Recognizes an individual or individuals who have made a lasting impact to the historic resources of Louisiana through a body of work.
Les Prix des Pommes Pourries/Rotten Apple Award
Recognizes an organization, person, or company whose actions disregard the benefits and importance of historic preservation and threaten the cultural legacy of Louisiana.
If there is a great success story or a preservation advocate in your region that deserves statewide recognition, choose from one of the eleven categories and submit an online nomination form here. For a printed nomination form, please email comainsky@lthp.org.
Nominations for both programs are due by Sunday March 5, 2023.
