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Colorado Preservation, Inc. was honored to host over 320 individuals who joined us Monday in recognizing Dana Crawford Award recipient, W. Bart Berger in addition to six other awardees. CPI’s annual DCA and State Honor Awards allows us to highlight projects, individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions towards historic preservation.
2019 Dana Crawford Award Recipient
Dana Crawford, the evening’s namesake, presented Mr. Berger with the award for his work with the Denver Mountain Parks Foundation and his work with Colorado Historical Foundation. Bart shared some remarkable comments at the event stating, “it is our job to promulgate an understanding of our underlying Colorado ethos and embed it in all the decisions we make as we go forward…the Proactive Preemptive Preservationist in me- looks to preserve the essential Colorado-ness the Denver-ness..amid the fray of this impending development and growth to communicate what it is. The best application of my personal effort is to accept growth, but not let it come at the expense of the basic social values that enabled it in the first place.”
Colorado historic preservation community.
Many of you have asked for a copy of Bart’s comments, Bart has generously agreed to share with you the comments he made.
Click here to download and read Bart’s acceptance speech of the 2019 Dana Crawford Award.
View photos of the event and see your friends on Facebook here.
CPI appreciates all of your support and generous donations. Did you pass on the donation evelope at the event but still want to make a donation? You can do so online! Please be sure to note if the donation was made in honor of one of our outstanding awardees.
Watch for the May 2019 CPI newsletter, Facebook and Twitter, and this webpage next week for links to view all the awardee videos. Click here to sign up for our newsletter.
Additional awardees celebrated at DCA were:
State Honor Awards
Estella Cole (Statewide)
Yampa Valley Electric Association Building (Routt County)
Preservation Edge Award
Endangered Places Progress Award
Hosting Committee
Mayor Michael Hancock, Honorary Chair
Bart Berger
Nicole Bopp
Ahsley L. Bushey
Chuck Cavness
Dana Crawford
Ruth Falkenberg
J. Kent Gervasini
Jim Kroll
Blair Miller
Ed Nichols
David Tryba
Stephanie Tryba
Thank You to Our Event Sponsors!
Preservation Champion Sponsors
Supporting Sponsors
Estella & Jim Cole
Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust
Friends of the Redstone Castle
History Colorado
State Historical Fund
Barbara Knight*
Patron Sponsors