Award-winning Projects of CDA Chapters from 1998 to Present

 

2011 - Chapter III - Washington, D.C.: The preservation and historical designation of the Abner Cloud Mill.

2010 - Chapter XIII – Kansas City, Missouri: Ongoing project to restore and maintain the Harris-Kearney House, the oldest standing brick house in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

 

 

 

2009 - Chapter XVII - Palm Beach, Florida: Restoration of Sea Gull Cottage

Citations:

Chapter IV – Paris, France: American Species Gardens at the Franco American Museum of Blerancourt

Chapter VIII – Houston, Texas: American Heritage exhibits at the Museum of Southern History

 

2008 - Two chapters shared the award:

Chapter XXIV, Atlanta, Georgia:

Conservation of a statue of an angel marking the grave of a child, and restoration of a statue marking the grave of her mother in the Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta.

 

 

 

Chapter XXXI, South Carolina:

Restoration of the ca. 1740 riverside entrance brick steps of Hopsewee Plantation House to its original colonial appearance.  Hopsewee Plantation is the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

 

 

 

2007 - Two chapters shared the award:

Chapter X - Rome, Italy:

Chapter X is producing a booklet about Americans buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome that will be sold in the cemetery’s book shop. Founded in 1734, the cemetery is the site of many important graves, including those of the poets Keats and Shelly, American diplomats, and notable Americans who lived in Italy. Although known as the Protestant Cemetery, it contains the graves of people of different faiths.

 

 

Chapter XI - London, England:

Chapter XI is replacing a sign next to the marble memorial to friends of George Washington, George and Sarah Fairfax, in the garden of the American Museum in Britain near Bath, England, that tells the story of friends torn apart by the American Revolution. The faded sign reads in part:

In 1773 the Fairfaxes left their Plantation at Belvor near Mt Vernon and journeyed to England. Caught by the War of Independence, they settled in Bath. Although they never saw George Washington again, they corresponded frequently….After her husband died in 1787, Sarah erected this monument to his memory. Her own name was added after her death in 1811, but before this she received a last loving letter from Washington in which he referred once again to "the happy moments, the happiest in my life, which I have enjoyed in your company.”

 

 

 

2006 - Chapter XXI-Dallas, Texas: Project Cookies for the Troops

 

 

 

2005 – Three chapters shared the award.

Chapter IV - Paris, France: Assisting L’Association Hermione La Fayette, in constructing a replica of the frigate which the Marquis de La Fayette sailed into Boston Harbor in 1780 to aid General George Washington during the Revolutionary war.

 

 

Chapter XXIII - Virginia: Support of the Jamestowne Rediscovery project to support a graduate student at the archeology dig on Jamestowne Island, in preparation for the 400th celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.

 

 

Chapter XXX - Venice, Florida: Support of the Venice Area Historical Society’s efforts to educate the public about the entities who used the recently restored Venice Train Depot and to lay the groundwork for a Circus Educational Program that will tell the story of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as it arrived and departed each year from its winter home.

 

 

 

2004 - Chapter XIV, Chicago: Schmidt-Burnham Log House; a restoration project on the historic house in Winnetka, Illinois.

 

 

 

2003 - Chapter XIX, Florida Everglades: Parents As Teachers research and educational project; a division of Early Years Educational Foundation of Collier County, Florida.

 

 

 

2002 - Chapter II, Philadelphia: Lemon Hill historic house museum; a local school study project called “Kids Tour of Lemon Hill by Kids,” phase two of the educational program “Living History Lessons at Lemon Hill” that received the award in 1999.

 

2001 - Chapter XIII, Kansas City: Harris-Kearney House project; restoring the shutters on the oldest standing brick house in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

 

 

2000 - Chapter XVII, Palm Beach: Glades Tri-State Education Program; a program of the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition.

 

1999 - Chapter II, Philadelphia: Lemon Hill historic house museum: “Living History Lessons at Lemon Hill” children’s program

 

 

 

1998 - Chapter V, San Francisco: Camron-Stanford House Preservation Association; a slide and tape conversion to video lecture on their historic site.