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2023 Preservation Award Winners Spotlight

The Paul Malo Award is given for projects that juxtapose old and new, demonstrating respect for our past while promoting our community’s future. This year’s recipient, The Vernon Center Schoolhouse, is interesting, as the nomination came from just outside of PACNY’s five-county region in Oneida County. However, we decided it was worth recognizing the hard work turning the school house, turned post office and retail space into a lodging and event center to serve the Vernon Center community.

2023 Preservation Award Winners Spotlight

This year the Dean Biancavilla Award is presented to the Oswego Lighthouse Volunteers. This award is given to an individual, group, or organization(s) that have successfully advocated on behalf of a specific local historic property or landscape. Since 2014 volunteers have been engaged in hands-on restoration work at the lighthouse, working to return the property to its former glory nearly a century ago. This is the real meat and potatoes of preservation work, and PACNY is proud to recognize their efforts!

2023 Preservation Award Winners Spotlight

The CNY Heritage Award is given to an individual, group or organization that honors, revives, and shares an important part of our Central New York heritage with the community. This year we honored The Syracuse Flag Committee for The Syracuse Flag Initiative, and the committee it built, seeking to reinvigorate this historic symbol and breathe new life into a banner.