Location: The Waterworks at Chestnut Hill, 2446 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA

Directions: Take the Green Line C train to Cleveland Circle (the last stop on that line). Walk west following Beacon Street through Chestnut Hill Park, staying on the south side of the reservoir until you come to the three Chestnut Hill Waterworks buildings. Ample parking is available.

Stay tuned for more details that will appear on separate invitations for this awards event.

Admission: $15.00 Members VSA/NE; $20.00 Nonmembers.

PLEASE join us for our Preservation Awards Ceremony, when we will honor those who have advanced the cause of historic preservation in New England in such categories as architecture, landscape, social history, and lifetime achievement.

Our venue will be The Waterworks at Chestnut Hill.

By adaptive reuse, noted architect Graham Gund has transformed three historic Victorian Pump stations into condominium complexes. The Waterworks will also be one of our honorees. Other award recipients will be the Liberty Hotel and the gardens at the Mount in Lenox, Mass. The Liberty is another adaptive reuse project as the old Charles Street Jail by Gridley Bryant in 1851 is turned into a luxury hotel. The gardens at the Mount enjoyed a half million dollar refurbishing in 2005.

Each year a Lifetime Achievement Award is extended, and this year’s recipient is noted preservationist William H. Pear.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
THE VSA/NE 36TH ANNUAL PRESERVATION AWARDS

5:30 P.M.  Reception
6:30 P.M.  Awards Program and Presentations