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2007 Annual Meeting and Awards Presentation

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Preservation Durham members and friends gathered at the Durham Arts Council Building on Thursday, May 31 for the group's 33rd Annual Meeting. Members mingled in the lobby, enjoying hors d'oeuvres and beverages and speculating on who would win this year's Preservation Awards before President Ellen Dagenhart formally opened the meeting.

 
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Architecture Preservation Awards Committee Chair Nathan Isley presented the winners of the 2007 Pyne Preservation Awards and the Neighborhood Conservation Awards. Owners of nine properties were recognized, including Pyne Award winners Kim and Karen Sage (right with APEC member Sara Lachenman and Nathan Isley at the podium) who renovated the John Cheek House on Driver Street in East Durham and Jeff and Trudi Burdette (right with Sara Lachenman) who own the James Manning House on Mangum Street in Old North Durham.

Other Pyne Awards went to Nick Hawthorne-Jones for his work on the Cornelia Taylor House; Cynthia Hill for the Penny Furniture Building; and Eugene and Signe Brown for the Tom Wilkinson House.

Neighborhood Conservation Award winners include Stephen and Kathleen Stone who restored a bungalow on Englewood Avenue; Kevin Watt and Michelle Roche and Trinity Design/Build for the Webb Thompson House, an anchor of the Burch Avenue Neighborhood; and Dana and Andra James who restored the Philo Bussell House in Trinity Park. Duke University also received a Neighborhood Conservation Award for their efforts in buying rental properties around their campus and selling them to owner-occupants to make the neighborhoods more family friendly.
 

Former HPSD President and Bartlett Durham Award winner Myra Markham presented the 2007 Bartlett Durham Award to Jean Bradley Anderson (right). A historian and professional genealogist, Mrs. Anderson has written much about Durham, including Piedmont Plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron Family and Lands in North Carolina, the story of Stagville Plantation; Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina; and The Durham Record. A Phi Betta Kappa graduate with a BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania, she taught at both Duke University and NC Central University. She is a charter member of Preservation Durham and is also active in other local preservation organizations.

After the awards presentations, Preservation Durham President Ellen Dagenhart urged the membership to work in the coming year for the preservation of the rural heritage of Durham County, currently threatened by expanding development.

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After the meeting, Bartlett Durham Award winner Jean Anderson chats with Harrell and Anne Tice (left) as members continued to chat and congratulate the 2007 award winners.
 

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