Past Evans Award Recipients

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2011 recipient of the David Evans Historic Preservation Award was the Michigan Historic Preservation Network for the adaptive reuse of the Thelma Joyce Osteen Comfort Station for their new headquarters.
2011: Michigan Historic Preservation Network (MHPN), formed in 1981, is the statewide non-profit organization in Michigan that advocates for our historic places to contribute to our economic vitality, sense of place and connection to our past.  MHPN will rehabilitate the Thelma Joyce Comfort Station, an unusual, long-vacant historic commercial building in Lansing originally affiliated with an interurban rail system, for its headquarters office and as a case study for future projects.

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2010 recipient of the David Evans Historic Preservation Award was Lawrence Technological University for improvements to Affleck House in Bloomfield Hills.

2010: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Affleck House in Bloomfield Hills for interior renovation. The house is owned by Lawrence Technological University and students worked to recreate the furniture. It is on both the state and National Register of Historic Places.
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2009: Charlevoix Historical Society, for repainting the 1885 South Pier Lighthouse on the Pine River Channel in Charlevoix. Removing the lead based paint and returning to the original lighthouse-red completed Phase II of a four step process to revive the historic structure.
2008: The largest award the Foundation has been able to grant was to the William E. Scripps Estate to restore the 1928 “Outdoor Room.” This preserved the landscaping to this remarkable historic industrial business founder’s home, located in Rochester. The completed work was celebrated in the fall of 2008.
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2007’s David Evans Preservation Award recipient was the Chippewa County Historical Society for restoring the roof of the News Building, originally built in 1889 to house Chase S. Osborn’s Sault Ste. Marie News.
2007: The third for the Upper Peninsula, replaced the roof on the new home of the Chippewa County Historical Society in Sault Ste Marie. The News Building constructed in 1889 originally housed Chase S. Osborn's Sault Ste. Marie News. The jury supported its reuse and felt that the restoration of the building would be a welcomed addition to the city’s ongoing “Cool Cities” initiatives, which included the restoration of the 1930s Soo Theatre.
2006: The Perkins-Copland Log Cabin, originally located in Haslett but now in Okemos at the Meridian Historical Village. The Friends of Historic Meridian acquired the building in 2005 and moved it to Okemos and use it to demonstrate local history. Although the MAF/Clannad Foundation does not usually support the relocation of historic structures, vandalism, because of its original remote location, threatened the survival of one of the few pieces of primitive architecture left in Michigan and an exception was made.
2005: The Phoenix of the Detroit Fire Department, assisting in the restoration of Engine 11, an 1883 Firehouse on Gratiot in Detroit. The firehouse was in service until 1989. The renovation included an overhaul of the building's mechanical systems and improvements to the aesthetic properties of the exterior.
2004: Pettibone Creek Hydroelectric Station in Milford to replace the quarry tile floor in an Art Deco structure that was designed by Albert Kahn as a power plant for Henry Ford in 1939.
2003: Newberry, in the Upper Peninsula, to help to restore the Turret of the 1894 Queen Ann Style Sheriff’s Residence for the Luce County Historical Society.
2002: The Corktown Tenement House is one of the few surviving examples of an Irish workers cottage left in Detroit. The long term goal is to restore the house for use as a Tenement Museum. The Evans Grant provided funds to repair the roof.
2001: The exterior restoration of the Pewabic House in Houghton. The house is the family home of Mary Chase Stratton, the founder of Pewabic Pottery. The Pewabic Pottery was a leader in the art pottery movement in the early part of the Twentieth Century and is still in business in Detroit.
2000: Coopersville Area Historical Society for the restoration of Interurban Car #8. Coopersville was commended for saving an unique example from America’s recent past.
1999: The first award was to the Shielding Tree Nature Center to restore the Lawr Farm, in Port Oneida, for adaptive reuse. This farm is one of several that are within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park.