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Events

Programs and celebrations that support our community

Our events are designed with the community in mind. The activities are appropriate for the whole family to enjoy. It's important for the upcoming generations to understand and value all that makes St. Pete special.

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PlaceMattersSP Lecture Series

Join us to explore the places, people and stories that define St. Pete's past and shape its future. Supported by AARP and the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at the USF St. Petersburg campus.

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Tours

Immerse yourself in historic St. Pete through our walking tours, bike tours, private tours, and self-guided tours! Our tour guides will walk you through the fascinating stories behind our city.

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Porch Parties

These fun and informal events take place at a local historic home or building, offering you what may be a one-time chance to gain entry inside. It’s also a chance for you to engage in some fun conversation, catch up on the latest preservation news, and try out some tasty food treats.

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Awards

Every other year, we present awards to homeowners, organizations, and businesses in our community who have made important contributions to historic preservation and to keeping St. Petersburg special.

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2024 Preservation Award Nomination Form

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Deadline: October 20, 2024

What buildings represent the best of historic St. Pete? Are you proud of the restoration work you’ve done on your home, office, or other historic building? Do you have a neighbor or neighborhood that should be recognized for how they’ve used historic properties to make St. Pete special? Submit a nomination for a Preservation Award from Preserve the ‘Burg!
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Preserve the ‘Burg works to preserve our community’s history and wants to recognize the exemplary restoration, preservation, and reuse taking place in our city. Please use the simple award nomination form to recognize those homeowners, businesses, and individuals who have taken the extra step to ensure that our city retains its special character and heritage. Awardees will be celebrated at Preserve the 'Burg's Preservation Awards on Friday, December 6, 2024.

Award Categories and Criteria:

  • Restoration or Rehabilitation (Residential and Commercial)
    These awards recognize exemplary restoration of historic buildings (generally built before 1973) that allow for contemporary use. A restoration project accurately returns a building to an earlier condition and/or appearance based on historical or physical evidence. Restoration focuses on the retention or repair of materials from the most significant time in a property’s history, while permitting the removal of materials from other periods. Rehabilitation recognizes the sensitive use of replica materials to return a depreciated building to productive use.
  • Stewardship (Residential and Commercial)
    Awards in this category are presented to long term owners of property who are ensuring the preservation of historic structures or other features of a property through care and maintenance, stabilization, or their protection of the historic structure or feature.
  • Adaptive Reuse (Commercial, or Residential to Commercial)
    An adaptive reuse retains St. Pete's historic streetscape while updating the building’s interior and mechanicals to serve a new use. It gives an “outdated” building a new purpose. Priority is given to retaining original exterior elements, ghost signs, scale, and place in its community.
  • Compatible Design (Commercial or Residential)
    Compatible Design Awards recognize a contemporarily designed or new building or business buildout that exemplifies the building’s compatibility with that of an adjacent or nearby historic structure or enhances the character of a historic neighborhood. Business buildouts with sensitive interior treatment that makes the business a “historic St. Pete” destination are appropriate for nomination. The building must contribute to the story of the neighborhood and our city.
  • Preservationist or Educator of the Year
    This award may be given to a St. Petersburg resident or local group who has demonstrated exemplary and sustained activities in promoting the preservation of historic structures in St. Petersburg or in promoting awareness in the field of historic preservation. While the focus of the award is on local action, the work of the individual or group on a state or national level may also be considered.

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2024 Preservation Award Nomination Form

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Please tell us more about the project such as a short description of the building’s historical significance, associated architects or historic figures, life cycle accountability, interpretive materials, if the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a local landmark, or is within a National Register or local landmark district.

Digital photos showing the building and its significant historic features are desired although not required for application submission. To submit photos please, email info@preservetheburg.org (please do not submit more than 5 photos).

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Nominations must be received on or before October 20, 2024.
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Photographic images sent as part of the application constitute a release agreement allowing PTB to use the images for publication in newsletters, press releases, etc. Any questions regarding the application or the awards program may be directed to coordinator@preservetheburg.com or by calling 727.824.7802.

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