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Press Contact:
Priscilla Brendler
Executive Director
director@greaterhudson.org
914-592-6726
Greater Hudson Heritage Network's Awards for Excellence program seeks to recognize and commend exceptional efforts among GHHN members. Awards are made to projects that exemplify creativity and professional vision resulting in a contribution to the preservation and interpretation of the historic scene, material culture, and diversity of the region.
The awards will be presented at the New York Statewide Preservation Conference, which is being held May 6-8 at the DoubleTree in Poughkeepsie. The awards will be presented at the Conference the morning of May 7 and Awardees will be featured in a poster session later that same afternoon.
2025 Awards for Excellence are presented to:
Historic Huguenot Street
New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event
New Paltz (Ulster)
The New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event is an annual, weekend-long event that exposes visitors to the diversity of the mid-17th century colony. Enrolled members of the federally recognized Lenape Delaware communities, Black living history demonstrators, and presenters of European descent, all come together to share their history and culture.
Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands
Cocktails and Collections at Crawford
Newburgh (Orange)
Cocktails and Collections at Crawford is a popular series of third Thursday evening lectures at the Crawford House - offering a chance to sit in the formal parlors, see and touch a rare museum item, enjoy a specialty themed cocktail and learn the little-known story the artifact can reveal about Newburgh’s past.
Hudson River Museum
Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time
Yonkers (Westchester)
Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time, an exhibition exploring the nuanced layers of the past, present, and future, featuring work by some of the most important contemporary Native American artists working today, drawn from the collections of Art Bridges, the Forge Project, and the Gochman Family Collection.
Planting Fields Foundation
Planting Fields: A Place on Long Island
Oyster Bay (Nassau)
Planting Fields: A Place on Long Island, is a monograph dedicated to Planting Fields, one of few surviving Gold Coast estates of Long Island. This beautiful publication, published by Monacelli Press/ Phaidon, captures the estate’s architectural and landscape significance while positioning it within the historical and cultural context of the region.
Preservation Long Island
Promoting Long Island: The Art of Edward Lange, 1870-1889
Cold Spring Harbor (Suffolk)
Promoting Long Island: The Art of Edward Lange, 1870-1889 is an edited scholarly publication exploring the life and art of the German immigrant artist, Edward Lange, who documented Long Island landscapes, businesses, and communities during a time of dramatic technological and social transformation.
Evelyne (Lynn) Ryan
Bedford Historical Society
Bedford (Westchester)
Evelyne Ryan retired from the Bedford Historical Society in 2024 after 28 years of dedicated leadership. Under her guidance, the Society grew into a dynamic force for historic preservation and education, playing a pivotal role in safeguarding Bedford’s heritage while enriching the vitality of Bedford Village.
Schenectady County Historical Society
Mabee Farm Brick House Preservation Project
Schenectady (Schenectady)
The Brick House (c. 1760s) – particularly its barren basement – is a tangible connection to the lives of enslaved Schenectadians. Schenectady County Historical Society allocated resources to safeguarded this structure, including significant restoration and preservation work, including stabilization, masonry work, carpentry work, and more.
Northport Historical Society and Museum
Still in Love
Northport (Suffolk)
The Still in Love exhibit is a collaborative project for curator Elizabeth Abrahams Riordan, and documentary makers Storm Choi, and Fred Beteille. Based on the village sidewalk graffiti, the exhibit questions an elusive part of Northport history and explores proclamations of love using collection artifacts dating back to the 1920s.
Three Village Historical Society and Museum
Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time Online Exhibit
Setauket (Suffolk)
Through their first online exhibit, the Three Village Historical Society has breathed new life into their Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time exhibit. This multi-media interactive website has transformed a permanent exhibit of thirteen years in an innovative way and ensures that the heritage of Chicken Hill remains a part of the community's collective understanding and appreciation of local history even after the physical exhibit was taken down.
Westchester County Historical Society
Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews
Elmsford (Westchester)
Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, a collection of over 400 accounts of the Revolutionary War years in Westchester County and evirons, has been transcribed, annotated, digitized, and made publicly available online by Westchester County Historical Society for the first time, providing a unique, invaluable perspective.
Congratulations to all the winners!
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