2025 People's Preservation Choice Award
Each year, an additional preservation award -the People’s Preservation Choice award- is chosen via an online public vote. Project nominees must be a successful restoration and rehabilitation of a local, state, or nationally significant historic building in Massachusetts, and the project must have resulted in increased and broadened awareness/appreciation for preservation within the community. The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on June 6, 2025.
This year's roster of nominees is impressive! Scroll down to read more about each one, or vote now on your favorite. (One vote per IP address.) Voting closes 6/5/25 at 12:00 p.m.
PPC Ranking as of 5/27/25
1st: Prospect Hill Park
2nd: The Lincoln
3rd: The Pryde
4th: Castle Hill at the Crane Estate
5th: Mary Baker Eddy Historic House
6th: The Tabernacle at Oak Bluffs
7th: Cambridge City Hall
8th: Gund Hall
9th: Twelfth Baptist Church
10th: Stone Mill Lofts
11th: Scituate Lighthouse Restoration
12th: Boston City Hall Plaza
13th: Coyle School Residences
14th: Earl Company Factory
15th: Spire Center for the Performing Arts
16th: The Columns
Learn More About Each Nominee
1811 Scituate Lighthouse
Scituate Historical Society; Town of Scituate; Pomroy Associates; Spencer Preservation Group; Tighe & Bond; GGD Consulting Engineers; Fuss & O’Neill;
Boston City Hall Plaza
Shawmut Design and Construction, City of Boston, Sasaki, Weston & Sampson; SGH, Arup, Skanska USA
Campbell Construction Group; Gilbert & Becker Co., Inc.; Thompson Waterproofing, Inc.; VoidSpan Technologies, LLC
Cambridge City Hall
City of Cambridge, Finegold Alexander Architects, Simpson, Gumpertz and Heger, ARUP, Putnam Associates, TRAC Builders
Castle Hill at the Crane Estate
Stone & Lime Historic Restoration Services (General Contractor): Robert Lombard, Kiarra Dorman;
Historic Building Architects: Annabelle Radcliffe-Trenner, Kallie Kothmann; The Trustees of Reservations (Owner): Robert Murray, Jena Boehm
Coyle School Residences
SCG Development Partners, LLC & CHOIC, ICON Architecture, DELLBROOK JKS, McPhail Associates, Fuss & O’Neill, CHA Solutions,
Souza True & Partners, Inc., Wozny Barbar & Associates, Inc., The Public Archaeology Lab, Inc., Illuminate, Kurt James, REFRESH, Tom McMahon
Earl Company Factory
Cougar Capital Management, Cougar Capital I, LLC, Context Workshop , Daigle Engineering,
BLW Engineers, Graz Engineering, Mass Development, Epsilon Associates, Inc.
Gund Hall Envelope
Bruner/Cott Architects, Shawmut Design & Construction, Redgate Real Estate,
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Vanderweil Engineers, Lam Partners, Jensen Hughes, Kalin Associates, Heintges Consulting, Architects & Engineers, A&A Window Products Oldcastle Building Envelope (OBE 360), Vitro
The Lincoln
NeighborWorks Housing Solutions (NHS), Davis Square Architects (DSA), Curtis Construction, VHB, N&P Masonry, Olde Bostonian, Marco Vaz Home
Improvement Inc., Frazer Construction Corp., Struble Engineering, DeCelle-Burke-Sala & Associates, HallKeen Management, Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, City of Brockton, Hudson Housing Capital & Santander, Massachusetts Historical Commission, National Park Service, EOHLC, CEDAC, MassHousing, Brockton Housing Authority, Santander Bank, Rockland Trust Co., Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP), Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Mary Baker Eddy Historic House
Martha Werenfels, FAIA, Senior Principal, Pierson Booher, AIA, Principal, Ben Lueck, AIA, Christian
Caldwell, Heidi Gumula, Wolf Architects, Milford & Ford Associates, PCA 360, Fitzemeyer & Tocci Associates, Inc., DGT Associates, Structures North Consulting, Landmark Facilities Group, Amaze Design, Kyle Zick Landscape Architecture, Lam Partners, Heritage Protection Group, Catherine Truman Architects, Consigli Construction
Prospect Hill Park Restoration
City of Somerville: Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development, Historic Preservation
Committee; Kyle Zick Landscape Architecture, Inc.; Jospeh Sarkisian & Associates, Inc.; Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc.; Lumen Studio, Inc.; Design Consultants, Inc.; Allied Consulting Engineering Services, Inc.; NELM Corp Construction
The Pryde
DiMella Shaffer, NEI General Contracting, R.W. Sullivan, Nitsch Engineering, L.A. Fuess, MikYoung
Kim, PAL/Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., Terracon, Hillmann Environmental, Thornton Tomassetti, WSP, SK & Associates Lighting Consultants, BSC Building Science Corporation, Kohta Uno
Spire Center for the Performing Arts
Spire Center for Performing Arts, Town of Plymouth, Spencer Preservation Group, Tighe & Bond, Finch & Rose, ZVI Construction, Cenaxo, LAM Partners
Stone Mill Lofts
WinnDevelopment, The Architectural Team, Inc., Keith Construction, Inc., R.W. Sullivan Engineering,
VHB, Loureiro Engineering Associates, Inc., Robinson + Cole LLP, New Ecology, Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., Odeh Engineers, Axiom Partners, Inc., McPhail Associates, LLC, ARM, Renaissance, WinnResidential, Connected Communities Foundation