CRITERIA
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE NOMINATIONS
 
Kansas Preservation Alliance Awards are presented annually for historic preservation projects demonstrating excellence and for individual or group efforts to promote historic preservation in Kansas.

Category I – Historic Preservation Projects


For the first category – historic preservation projects – properties must meet the criteria for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and have an association with significant events or persons in Kansas or U.S. history. National Register criteria are described on the National Park Service website http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listing.htm Properties must possess distinctive characteristics of type, period, or method of construction or style of architecture and/or provide information important to the history or prehistory of Kansas.
 
All work performed on a property considered for this category must meet The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.  These standards are described on the National Park Service web site  http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/tps/standguide/index.htm  Projects may represent any of the four treatment approaches – Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction. Nominations for KPA Awards should identify the preservation treatment that the project exemplifies.
 
To be eligible for KPA Awards for Excellence, preservation work on the project must be substantially completed by December 31 of the previous year.

Category II – Preservation Advocacy


Kansas Preservation Alliance Awards for Excellence in Preservation Advocacy are given to individuals, organizations, and institutions that have carried out exemplary efforts to promote historic preservation in Kansas.  Advocacy efforts may have resulted in improvements in preservation legislation, education, or funding; in the development of historic districts, preservation and/or conservation easement programs; or other local, regional, or statewide preservation achievements. Advocacy efforts may be recent or may have taken place over an extended time period.

Honorable Mention Awards may be given in either category.


Nominations must include the completed KPA nomination form and up to five 4”x 6” color photographs and ten to fifteen digital 300 DPI, 1600 x 1200 (jpeg format) pix on a compact disk.   Photos should illustrate “before” and “after” work of the project and should include overall views as well as details.  A description of the nominated project that illustrates why an award is deserved as well as how the project met the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards shall be attached to the form.  The deadline for submitting nominations is January 31 of the year in which the awards are to be presented.
 
 
Contact Info:  Kansas Preservation Alliance Inc., 12120 State Line Road, Suite 128, Leawood, KS  66209
Phone:  913.449.3147
     
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