Preservation Awards
Celebrating historic preservation in Cambridge!
The Cambridge Preservation Awards Program, inaugurated by the Historical Commission in 1997, celebrates outstanding projects and notable individuals who conserve and protect the city’s architecture and history. Awards are given each May for projects completed within the previous calendar year. May is National Preservation Month.
Seven project categories are eligible for Cambridge Preservation Awards: restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive use, neighborhood conservation, landscape preservation, archaeology, and education/outreach. Awards are based on the following criteria:
- historical and architectural significance of the property,
- exceptional quality of the project,
- extent to which the project contributed to the preservation of the property,
- impact of the project on the preservation of the city’s historic resources
View the Zoom presentation of 2020's winning projects with this link and passcode: KrXyF=2G
Awards were presented via Zoom.us on October 15, 2020.
Congratulations to the owners and project contributors
of this year's winning projects!
Preservation Awards:
115-117 Amory Street
120 Brookline Street
189 Cambridge Street
14-16 Clinton Street
221-227 Concord Avenue
205-207 Green Street
Harvard Hall
21 Howard Street
245 Mt. Auburn Street
55 Regent Street
7-9 Salem Street
Anthony C. Platt & Nancy L. Goodwin Award:
208-212 Hampshire Street
For information on the Massachusetts Historical Commission's preservation awards program,
click here.