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Cleo and James Marston Fitch Prize

Named in honor of James Marston Fitch (1909-2000), the founder of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University, this prize is awarded annually for the best paper or project completed during the first year of studies. Submissions may include projects completed by an individual or team of two.

Through the generous contributions of PA members, in recent years the prize has carried a $500 award.

Following is a list of past winners of the Cleo and James Marston Fitch Prize:

2018
Maura Whang – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: A Preservation Controversy in Color

2017
Nilika Mistry, Humayun's Tomb – Critical Assessment of the Restoration by Aga Khan Trust for Culture

2016
Allison Semrad, Preservation Decisions at Taliesin East

2015
Alexander Ford and Nicholas Gervasi, a design intervention for Terrace on the Park, Flushing Meadows - Corona Park

2014
Angela Wheeler, Kuleana: Heritage Law and Social Justice in 21st Century Hawai'i

2013

Andrea A. Tonc, The Ruins of War: Coventry Cathedral Resurrected

2012
Kate Reggev, Seen but Dismissed, Designed but Disguised: Outhouses at Single-Family Dwellings in the American Mid-Atlantic

2011
Tatum Taylor, Undeniable Conjecture: Placing LGBT Heritage

2010
Kerensa S. Wood, Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library: Identity Through Restorations

2009
Yiannis Avramides, The Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Competition of 1939, and the Delayed Actualization of Modernism on the National Mall

2008
Xsusha Carlyann Flandro, Christine Huh, Negin Maleki, Mariana Sarango-Manaças and Jennifer Schork, Progressive Housing in New York City: A Closer Look at Model Tenements and Finnish Cooperatives

2007
Richard Handler, A Brief History of the Transformation of Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue into Luxury Apartments

2006
Christopher Brazee

2005
Jessica Williams, Labor, Silence, Penitence: the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton

2004
Laura Buchner, Ornamental Terra Cotta Along the Harlem River

2003
Andrea Ruedy and Becky Walldorf

2002
Melissa Baldock, The Elliott Houses

2001
Gregory Dietrich, The Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse
and
Cindy Chang and Kisa Hooks, Domino Sugar Refinery

2000
Michele A. Boyd, The Mile Square City: Preservation Planning Issues in Hoboken, New Jersey
and
Lucien Sonder, 7 Bleecker Street

1999
Regan Tuder, The Escuelas Nacionales de Arte and the Search for Cuban Architectural Expression

1998
Nadya Nenadich, Ridgewood Savings Bank

1997
Sarah Ingle, City College Y Building
and
Barbara Mitchell, An Architectural Study of the Sheffield Farm Stables, Manhattan

1996
Lisanne Renner, From Farm to Factories: The Evolution of Patterson's Urban Form

1995
Katherine Rodway, Maiden Lane: A Survey of the History and Architecture of New York City's First Jewelry District

1994
Kevin Daly

1993
Barbara Mishara, The Bright Lights of Times Square

1992
Josie Fowler and Ken Lustbader

1991
Christopher Neville and Kathleen Randall

1990
Matthew A. Bauer and Vicki S. Weiner

1989
Elizabeth Lee Dassler and Hoanh Viet Tran

1988
Claudia Kavenaugh

1987
Linda Cook

PA President Cleary Larkin (Class of 2007) presents the 2009 Fitch Prize to Ioannis Avramides at the annual PA Fall Party, held at the Central Park Arsenal.