PROVIDENCE – The winners of the 11th annual Rhody Awards for Historic Preservation were announced Friday.
The awardees are selected by Preserve Rhode Island and the R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission to honor individuals, organizations and projects for their role in the preservation of historic Rhode Island locales.
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The awardees will be honored at an event at Aldrich Mansion in Warwick Oct. 6.
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This year’s award winners are:
- Betty and Carlo Mencucci: The Antoinette F. Downing Volunteer Service Award for their conservation of historic gravestones.
- Paul F. Miller: The Frederick C. Williamson Professional Leadership Award for “decades of service to Newport as a curator and public scholar of decorative arts, historic architecture and social history.”
- Historic Wickford Markers Project: The Education Award, honoring the project’s nine interpretive signs that explore the village’s history.
- Pawtuxet Rangers: The Education Award for its work interpreting Rhode Island’s military and community history and stewardship of the organization’s armory.
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: The Stewardship Award for its historic preservation at Newport Casino.
- Martha Werenfels and Frank Satterthwaite: The Historic Homeowner Award for their restoration of the Eudora Beynon and Ada Puffer House & Carriage House in Cranston.
- Cheryl Hackett and John Grosvenor: The Historic Homeowner Award for the restoration of the Restmere villa in Middletown.
- The Coletta Group: The Historic Preservation Project Award for the restoration of commercial and residential spaces in the Avis Block in North Kingstown.
- Sussy DeLeon and Stephen Biernacki: The Historic Preservation Project Award for the restoration of the Ballou House in Providence for a mix of uses.
- Robert Terino, Anthony Santoro and John Santoro: The Historic Preservation Project Award for the conversion of the Lymansville Company Mill in North Providence into Lofts at Lyman Mill.
