Each year, PSABC presents the Griffin Awards for Historic Preservation. Projects from Buncombe County that have been completeled within the last 24 months, or thos that are deemed 90% complete may apply in one of the following award categories.
- Restoration- Projects that accurately depict the form, features, and character of a property as it appeared at a particular period of time. Restoration may entail removal of features from other periods of the building’s history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. It may include limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make the property functional.
- Rehab – Projects that allow for newer compatible use of a historic building through repair, alteration, and/or additions while preserving portions or features of the building which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values. Changes that achieve a false sense of historical development over time will not be considered.
- In fill Construction within a Historic District or Neighborhood-projects within boundaries of national or local historic districts within the City of Asheville or Buncombe County that are respective of the contributing factors to the original historic neighborhood/ district in which they fall. Specifically, the Griffin Awards Committee will focus on the project’s compatibility to the adjacent scale, character, materials, colors, siting, landscape and forms of the historic area. The project should, arguably, be a contributing structure to the integrity of the immediate area. Applicants for this award must also provide a minimum of five (5), but no more than ten (10) images of adjacent structures or elements of the historic area that provided inspiration for the new construction.
- Adaptive Re-use – Projects that adapt a historic building for a purpose other than what was originally intended while preserving portions or features of the building which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values.
- Preservation Service – A single act (or several single acts) in one year in support of preservation efforts; a champion award, specifically for an individual or a group set apart from a particular project.
Research & Publication – Preservation Education Award Recognizing excellence in communicating the value of historic
preservation to the public including: exemplary historical research, publication, oral history initiative, and the development
of innovative education program or website.
PLEASE NOTE: There is not a category for renovations or remodeling. Nor is there a category for new construction that is not specifically within a historic district or traditional neighborhood.
Application for 2012 Griffin Awards, deadline March 30, 2012.
