James Dennis
Private
Owner, Jacobs I House, Madison, Wisconsin
Current Honorees
Past Honorees
Introduced in 1991, the Wright Spirit Award recognizes efforts of extraordinary individuals and organizations that have preserved the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright through their tireless dedication and persistent efforts. Awards are presented in the categories Private, Public, Professional and Special Honors.
Deadline to submit nomination: March 4, 2019
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Wright Spirit Awards, Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday October 13, 2018. (c) Mark Hertzberg
James Dennis
Private
Owner, Jacobs I House, Madison, Wisconsin
Gaines and Sharon Hall
Special Honors
B. Harley Bradley House, Kankakee, Illinois
Stafford Norris III
Professional
UTP, LLC and Alphawood Foundation
Public
Restoration of Unity Temple
Lenhart and Ramsey Families
Private
Owners, Harold Price Jr. House, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Carole Ann Fabian Professional Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Columbia University
Janet Parks Professional Curator of Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library (retired)
Barry Bergdoll Professional Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Peter Maunu and Irmi Maunu-Kocian Private Owners of the Lamberson House (1948) in Oskaloosa, Iowa, for the thorough restoration of their Wright-designed house
Glencoe Historical Society Public This nonprofit organization strengthened Wright's legacy on the North Shore of Chicago with a year-long series of community events to celebrate the centennial of Wright's Ravine Bluffs neighborhood
John G. Thorpe (posthumous) Professional For decades of work as a restoration architect of Wright-designed houses and dedicated preservation advocate
Jeffrey Herr Special Honors For his tireless and far-reaching work on behalf of the newly restored Hollyhock House
William J. Schwarz, AIA Special Honors For championing solutions that have preserved the architectural integrity of the Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center building and site
Eugene Szymczak Private Owner, Thomas Hardy House (1905), for his thorough restoration of the house
SC Johnson Public For its stalwart stewardship of its signature Wright-designed buildings, restoration and openingto the public of its Research Tower, and continued commitment to creating important architectural works
Joseph M. Siry Professional William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University, for his 30-plus years of lecturing and publishing on Wright’s work
Glenn and Mary Schnadt Special Honors For their role in saving Wright’s A.D. German Warehouse and donating it back to the Richland Center community for restoration
Robert and Bonnie McCoy Special Honors For their leadership in the effort to save and fully restore Wright’s Stockman House, City National Bank and Park Inn Hotel, and other works by important architectural figures
David and Gladys Wright House Foundation Private For purchasing the David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix to restore and preserve the house
Greg Stanton, Mayor of Phoenix Public For his role as the mayor of Phoenix in the rescue of the David and Gladys Wright House
Grady Gammage, Jr. Professional Land use and real estate attorney, for being instrumental in the effort to preserve the David and Gladys Wright House by virtue of the wise legal counsel he gave based on an intimate understanding of the issues and players involved
Scott Jarson and Debbie Jarson Special Honors Founders of azarchitecture/Jarson & Jarson, enthusiastic and effective preservation advocates without whose contributions the effort to save the David and Gladys Wright House may not have succeeded
Michael Kimmelman Special Honors Architecture critic for the New York Times, for exposing and explaining to the general public the greater social and political purposes of the design of urban spaces and built environments
Jim McPherson Special Honors President of the Arizona Preservation Foundation, for his instrumental efforts to save the David and Gladys Wright House as a member of the task force from its beginning
Wakanda Elementary School — Fifth Grade Team Special Honors Wakanda Elementary School’s Fifth Grade team of teachers—Anne Hasse, Sally Johnson, Brianna Berhow, and Jacob Schutte—championed by their principal Greg Corning and school superintendent, Christine Stratton, for their program “Breaking the Box: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright”, which is a model for the ways in which a new generation, indeed a very young generation, can learn about, interpret, and later preserve, the work and legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright
Linda Botsford Conservancy Award Awarded by Executive Director Janet Halstead, for her volunteer role as longtime copy editor for SaveWright magazine
Daniel and Dianne Chrzanowski Private Owners of the Dobkins House, for their restoration of the house
Dale Morgan and Norm Silk Private Owners of the Turkel House, for their thorough restoration of the house
Peter Rott Professional Principal, Isthmus Architecture, for his strong focus on preservation architecture especially as applied to the work of Wright
First Unitarian Society and Friends of the Meeting House Public For its extensive restoration work at Unitarian Meeting House over many years and its immensely successful public programming
Steve Sikora and Lynette Erickson-Sikora Private
Wright on the Park Inc., The Board of Directors and Executive Director Ann MacGregor Public
Mary Jane Hamilton Professional
Jack Holzhueter Special Honors
Jim Phaneuf and Jean Ida Hoffman Private
Howard Ellington Public
The Kubala Washatko Architects (Tom Kubala, Allen Washatko) Professional
PrairieMod Special Honors
Edith Payne Private
The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread Public
Donald Hallmark Professional
The Turner Foundation and John Landess Special Honors
John and Kathleen Leigh Private
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Public
Martin House Restoration Corporation Public
Lauren Burge and Elizabeth Murphy Professional
Robert Loversidge and David Vottero Professional
Jan Scherubel Conservancy Award
Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino Private
Price Tower Arts Center Public
T.K. McClintock Professional
Ennis House Foundation (Robert Leary and Steve McAvoy), Peter B. Lewis, Joan and T. Eugene Smith Special Honors
Keepers Preservation Education Fund Conservancy Award
Dr. Annette Beyer-Mears Private
Indira Berndtson, Oskar Munoz and Margo Stipe, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives Public
David De Long Professional
Lynda S. Waggoner Special Honors
Barry Dyas Conservancy Award
Ollie and Edie Adelman Private
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Public
Anthony Alofsin Professional
E. Thomas Casey Special Honors
Robert Kresse, Esq. Special Honors
C.J. “Pete” and Theodosea Silas Special Honors
Debbie Nemeth Conservancy Award
John and Sue Major Private
Joanne Kohn, The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park and the St. Louis County Government Public
Robert Silman Associates, P.C. Professional
Katherine and Maynard Buehler Special Honors
Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Special Honors
Special Collections & Visual Resources Research Library, The Getty Institute Special Honors
Dean and Ella Mae Eastman Private
City of Florence, Alabama Public
Stefan Nagel Professional
Cornelia Brierly Special Honors
Judith Bromley Special Honors
Ed and Diana Baehrend Private
Marin County Public
Ezra Stoller Professional
Hillary Clinton Special Honors
Barbara and Robert Elsner Private
Virginia Kazor Public
H. Allen Brooks Professional
Joel Silver Special Honors
Virginia Lovness Private
Currier Gallery of Art/Zimmerman House Public
Kathryn Smith Professional
Blair Kamin Special Honors
Mary and William Palmer Private
Florida Southern College Public
Raku Endo Special Honors
Sara Smith Special Honors
Bruce and Lynette Haines Mission Award
Roland and Ronny Reisley Private
Graycliff Conservancy Public
Jack Quinan Professional
Preservation Magazine Special Honors
Jeanette Fields Private
Architectural Digest Special Honors
John Christian
Maya Moran Manny
Vincent Scully
Loren Pope Private
Yuko Hani and volunteers for Myonichikan Restoration Public
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Professional
House Beautiful Special Honors
Martin House Restoration Corporation/Barton House purchasers Special Honors
Richard Carney
Eric Lloyd Wright
Karen Johnson Boyd
Marshall Erdman
Samuel Johnson Special Honors
Edgar Tafel
E. Fay Jones
Audrey Laatsch
Paul Mayan (for Kaufmann Office Restoration)
River City Society for Historic Preservation/Stockman House
Tom Schmidt
James Thompson (former Governor of Illinois)
Katherine Jacobs
Pedro Guerrero
Carla Lind
David Hunting (Vice-Chair of Steelcase)
Grant Carpenter Mason
Mildred Rosenbaum