Preserve Arkansas Now Accepting Nominations for 2025 Arkansas Preservation Awards

LITTLE ROCK—Preserve Arkansas is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Arkansas Preservation Awards. Winners will be honored in January 2026. The Arkansas Preservation Awards recognize outstanding preservation achievements, people who make a difference in their communities, and projects that inspire others to protect Arkansas’s special historic places.

Members of the public are invited to submit nominations for eligible projects in the following 13 categories:
·       Outstanding Service in Neighborhood Preservation
·       Outstanding Work by a Craftsperson
·       Excellence in Preservation through Rehabilitation
·       Excellence in Preservation through Restoration
       Outstanding Achievement in Adaptive Reuse
·       Excellence in Personal Preservation Projects
·       Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Advocacy
·       Outstanding New Construction in a Historic Setting
·       Outstanding Preservation Reporting in the Media
·       Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication
·       Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education
·       W. L. Cook Award for Excellence in Heritage Preservation
·       Parker Westbrook Award for Lifetime Achievement
To nominate a person, project, or program, visit PreserveArkansas.org to obtain a nomination form or nominate online, or request a nomination form by calling 501-372-4757 or emailing info@preservearkansas.org. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. on August 31, 2025.

Preserve Arkansas is the only statewide nonprofit advocate for the preservation of Arkansas’s historic places. Our organization is dedicated to building stronger communities by reconnecting Arkansans to our heritage and empowering people to save and rehabilitate historic places.