Applications are available through Monday, November 16, to nominate an individual, organization, company, or agency for the George McMath Historic Preservation Award.

The University of Oregon presents the award annually for exceptional and commendable work in historic preservation, in particular for development of new ideas, approaches, and innovations. The McMath Award is intended to raise public awareness of historic preservation education and promote excellence in preservation practice.

Criteria include demonstrated “distinguished merit” in preservation; employing historic preservation to renew diverse, older neighborhoods; meeting unique community needs while remaining sensitive to historic and changing urban conditions; raising public awareness; and career-long accomplishments of the highest caliber.

This is the eighth year the award has been conferred. Prior honorees include James Hamrick, Cathy Galbraith, Elisabeth Walton Potter, Hal Ayotte, William J. Hawkins III, Don Peting, and Leo Dean Williams.

The award will be presented in May at the University of Oregon in Portland.

The nomination application and additional information are available on the HP website or at hpgtf@uoregon.edu.

Above: The 2015 McMath winner, Leo Dean Williams, oversaw restoration of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Photo by Marion Dean Ross. Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross. Photo courtesy UO Libraries Digital Collections.