Preservation Awards 2001
The Jersey City Economic Development Corporation
Excellence in Preservation Award
The Jersey City Economic Development Corporation is awarded an Excellence in Preservation Award for its Blockfront Program, an ambitious redevelopment initiative that has sensitively restored long rows of 19th century tenements and storefronts in bustling shopping districts.
Old Bergen Church of Jersey City
Excellence in Preservation Award
Old Bergen Church of Jersey City is awarded an Excellence in Preservation Award for the breathtaking restoration of its graceful 1841 Greek Revival church, which stands at the corner of Bergen and Highland Avenues as the home of what most historians consider the oldest continuing religious congregation in New Jersey.
Fleet Bank
Excellence in Preservation Award
Fleet Bank is awarded an Excellence in Preservation Award for the painstaking restoration of its neoclassical interior bank lobby at One Exchange Place, and for its generous support of preservation through historical art exhibits.
Exeter Property Services
Excellence in Preservation Award
Exeter Property Services is awarded an Excellence in Preservation Award for the brilliant restoration and adaptive reuse of the Hamilton Park Foundry, an 1895 industrial factory that once manufactured fine brass lamps for hundreds of trolley cars traversing Jersey City's cobbled streets.
Colin Egan and the Friends of the Loew's
The Theodore Conrad Preservation Award
The Theodore Conrad Preservation Award, named after Jersey City's first and most famous preservationist, is presented to Colin Egan and the Friends of the Loew's for their exemplary grassroots efforts to save and restore the historic Loew's Jersey Theatre, New Jersey's most beautiful movie palace.