2020 Award Recipients
The 2020 Awards Recipients represent the strong foundations and supportive collaborations that bring new life to our historic buildings and landscapes, push boundaries, and create new aspirations for historic preservation in the Commonwealth. We will celebrate 2020’s awardees in new and innovative ways that champion their accomplishments and inspirations more broadly and that encourage increased engagement within the broader preservation community.
We look forward to sharing more about the awardees, their teams, their road to preservation success and more over the coming weeks. Be sure to check back often and follow us on social media as we share their stories.
To see the recipients and more information on the awards themselves, see below

The Paul & Niki Tsongas Award
The Tsongas Award is Preservation Massachusetts' highest honor, honoring people and projects that have displayed the highest level of commitment to historic preservation in the Commonwealth.
Robert H. Kuehn, Jr. Award
The Kuehn Award recognizes projects that meld collaborative partnerships with creative and cutting-edge ideas for the rehabilitation and active reuse of historic buildings.

The Menino Legacy Award celebrates projects that are transformative, catalytic, embrace the community, create partnerships, and revitalize the best of the past to make something good for the future.
Charles Eliot Award
The Eliot Award is given to organizations with exceptional vision and excellence in planning for preservation.

Frederick Law Olmsted Award
The Olmsted Award is given to those organizations and individuals for their dedication to the promotion of our cultural landscapes.
People's Preservation Choice Award
The People's Preservation Choice Award is your chance to vote and pick this year's award winner from our field of nominees.
See the People's Preservation Choice nominees here.
Voting starts on September 22.
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