Honoring Historic Preservation Throughout Oregon
Each year, Restore Oregon honors projects demonstrating a commitment to excellence in historic preservation with the annual DeMuro Awards program. Winners of the 2020 DeMuro Award will receive:
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- Recognition at the Restoration Celebration Gala held virtually on October 22, 2020.
- A one-of-a-kind award valued at over $150; and an opportunity to purchase additional awards.
- Option to order printed award certificate for each project team member.
- Statewide public relations announcement.
- Promotion on restoreoregon.org, all Restore Oregon social media platforms, and in FieldNotes Magazine.
Preparing Your Application:
As you prepare for the application, we encourage you to read the following list in order to get an understanding of the type of work we award.
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- Rehabilitation/redevelopment of a structure, public space or cultural landscape at least 50 years old.
- Compatible addition to a historic building or infill development within a historic district.
- Completed in Oregon within the last five years (2015-Present).
- Self nominations are welcome.
- Previous applicants (that haven’t been awarded) from 2015-present may re-apply.
- How well does this project benefit its neighbors and surrounding community? This could be cultural, economic or environmental.
Projects will be judged by a jury of preservation professionals based on the following criteria:
- Creative or unique approach to design, adaptive reuse, and problem solving in the field of historic preservation.
- Exceptional quality of engineering, craftsmanship, materials, standards and degree of difficulty of the project.
- Positive impact of the project on the community (cultural, economic or environmental).
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- Must provide complete information for the project team including company name, contact person, email and mailing information and the role served (use the provided spreadsheet template).
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- Include photos with your application that illustrate the unique nature of the project that include “Before,” “In Process” and “After” images and historic photo(s) if available.
- Photo file names should be named in the same structure. For example: Project Name_Front Entrance_Historic_photocredit.jpg or Project Name_Hallway_Historic_photocredit.png.
- All photos must be Hi-resolution (300 dpi, 3 MG or greater in size each) and pngs or jpegs(no pdfs or powerpoints)
- If you have any questions about what a high resolution photo is, here is a helpful website for you: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/what-is-hi-res/.
- Photos must include captions/cutlines and photo credit/copyright information. If you need more insight on how to write photo credits; The New School has helpful tips here: http://guides.library.newschool.edu/pics?p=2538481.
- Restore Oregon will provide you with space on the application to upload images, photo credit page(s) and any supporting information-including newspaper clippings, related to the nomination.
Preview the application questions here in advance. Quick tip: Save time by answering all application questions in advance in Word or Google Docs, so you can do a quick copy and paste into the application form.
- May 8th: Discounted Early Bird Nomination is $62.50 – price after May 8th is $125
- June 12th: Final Nominations Deadline
- August 10: Award Winners Notified
- Late August 2020: Award Winners Publicly Announced
- October 2nd: DeMuro Awards Presented at the Restoration Celebration Gala on Friday, October 2, 2020 in Portland