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The Brookings Historic Preservation Commission is seeking nominations for the 2023 Mayor’s Awards for outstanding achievements in historic preservation. The nomination deadline is 5 p.m. on Monday, July 10.

The awards recognize significant achievements in historic preservation in the City of Brookings and seek to inspire others to preserve, protect and promote historic resources.

Nomination forms, instructions and additional information can be found at www.cityofbrookings-sd.gov/HistoricPreservationCommission, or by contacting Community Development Director Mike Struck at 605-692-6629 or MStruck@cityofbrookings-sd.gov.

Nominations can be made in one of the following categories: Excellence in Rehabilitation, Excellence in Restoration, Adaptive Reuse, Infill, Stewardship, Preservation Achievement/Service, or Lifetime Achievement. Below is information about each category: 

• Excellence in Rehabilitation Award: Recognizes projects that make compatible use of a building through repair, alterations or additions while preserving features of the property that convey its historic value. Nominees in this category must demonstrate how their restoration or rehabilitation of an historic property was a laudable effort using the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation, or achieved a satisfactory result by going over and beyond the normal accepted practices.
• Excellence in Restoration: Recognizes exemplary restoration of historic structures. An accurate restoration project depicts the form, features and character of an historic building as it appeared at a particular period of time. Restoration requires sensitive upgrading of mechanical systems and other code-required work to make the site functional.
• Adaptive Reuse Award: Recognizes projects in which an older building has been restored in sympathy with its historic period or architectural style, even if the current function of the building is not the same as its original historic function.
• Infill Award: Recognizes a new structure, located within any designated historic district, that exhibits compatibility with the historic district.
• Stewardship Award: Recognizes those who have ensured the preservation of historic properties through long-term care and maintenance, stabilization, protection, or continuous family ownership.
• Preservation Achievement or Service Award: Recognizes persons, groups, businesses and/or government entities that demonstrate exemplary activities and promotion of awareness in the field of historic preservation.
• Mary McClure Bibby Lifetime Achievement Award: Recognizes an individual who has championed historic preservation, planning or public policy in the City of Brookings.

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