Looks like the food will be good - lots of local businesses are contributing - Amelia's Bistro, Bar Majestic, GO, Komegashi, La Rustique, Light Horse and Pecoraro Bakery!

Tickets are still available at Beechwood.

You can purchase tickets in advance at...

Beechwood Cafe, 290 Grove Street
Garden State News, 366 Central Avenue
GO (Gourmet Organic), 611 Jersey Avenue

They can also be purchased at the Loews the night of the event pending availability.

Or contact your friendly JCLC board member (hi!).

Also folks, we are looking for volunteers for the ceremony, which would get you in for FREE.

E-mail me at jscparkhurst@hotmail.com for more info.

Joshua Parkhurst
President
Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy

This looks like a fantastic event! Wine, food, music and the chance to rub elbows with a famous author, a controversial civil rights activist and a Hollywood director all in one evening. How do I get tickets?

The JERSEY CITY LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY is proud to announce the winners of the

2006 PRESERVATION AWARDS

for our upcoming:



After nearly six months of deliberating over board-nominated candidates, conducting historical research and interviews and making multiple site visits, we have selected the following outstanding examples of bricks-and-mortar restoration, preservation promotion, scholarship, grass roots advocacy and lifetime achievement:

EXCELLENCE IN PRESERVATION AWARD

This award, given to three separate property owners, recognizes the recent restoration, rehabilitation or adaptive reuse of a building, structure or object that exemplifies a high regard for the resource's historical and architectural integrity.

Charlie Hewitt and Tom Watts
for The Bath House, 1903
5-11 Coles Street
The Italian Village
Jersey City, New Jersey
Inglese Architecture and Engineering
(Architect of Record)
Donahoe Brothers, Inc.
(General Contractor)



Dennis Doran
Private 19thh Century Victorian Residence
55 Summit Avenue
Bergen Hill
Jersey City, New Jersey



Giuseppe LoPiccolo
Creative R & D, LLC
Private 19th Century Italianate Clapboard Row House
336 8th Street
Hamilton Park Historic District
Jersey City, New Jersey




2006 PRESERVATION INITIATIVE AWARD

This award recognizes the extraordinary efforts by an individual or organization in promoting the preservation and/or protection of a historic resource.

Grace Lutheran Church
982 Summit Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Jersey City, New Jersey




2006 J. OWEN GRUNDY HISTORY AWARD

Named after the city's late historian, the J. Owen Grundy History Award recognizes work that chronicles, through a written or visual medium, Jersey City history.

Thomas Fleming, Author
"Mysteries of My Father: An Irish-American Memoir"




2006 THEODORE CONRAD PRESERVATIONIST AWARD

Named after Jersey City's late influential preservationist, the Theodore Conrad Preservationist Award recognizes local grassroots historic preservation efforts.

Sam Pesin and The Friends of Liberty State Park




2006 LIVING LEGEND AWARD

The Living Legend Award is given to someone, who through his or her experience, embodies the history of Jersey City.

The Reverend Robert Castle




THE 6TH ANNUAL PRESERVATION AWARDS CEREMONY

The 2006 Awardees will be celebrated at our 6th Annual Preservation Awards Ceremony, a special public event on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre in Journal Square from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Presented by the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy at the conclusion of National Historic Preservation Month. Sponsored by Metrovest, Lord Abbett, PSE&G, Lindemon Winckelmann Deupree Martin and Associates, Van Vorst Park Association, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Realty and the historic Temple Beth-El.

We are thrilled to be able to recognize and bestow honors upon these heroes of the preservation community, and we hope you are able to attend the ceremony to meet them and sing their praises!

The event will include live lobby music, buffet, wine, slide show, exhibit, presentation of awards and a private tour of the theatre. In 2005 we drew a crowd of over 250, but we hope to top that number this year, demonstrating the public's growing passion for--and commitment to--historic preservation in Jersey City.

CEREMONY TICKETS:

You may purchase your ticket for $25 at the local businesses listed below or at the Loew's box office on the night of the event.

Beechwood Cafe, 290 Grove Street
Garden State News, 366 Central Avenue
GO (Gourmet Organic), 611 Jersey Avenue

For more information about tickets and the ceremony, please call Joshua Parkhurst at (201) 332-4704 or e-mail: jscparkhurst@hotmail.com

The 2006 Awards Ceremony is also made possible by the generous contributions of Friends of the Loew's, FastFrame Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Bar Majestic. Special thanks goes out to Lycel Villanueva, Leon Yost, Christine Bee, Laura Fraschilla, Pat Guida, Cynthia Harris, The New Jersey Room, and all of our dedicated 2006 Preservation Awards Ceremony volunteers!



SPECIAL ADDED EVENT:

As a special precursor to the May 31 Awards Ceremony, the Conservancy, in collaboration with the Jersey City Museum, will be holding a one-time public screening of the 1991 film "Cousin Bobby" at the Jersey City Museum, 350 Montgomery Street, on Tuesday, May 30, from 6: 00 to 8:00 p.m.

The 70-minute film focuses on the embattled life and times of the Rev. Robert Castle, a 1960s-era Episcopal priest in the heart of Jersey City's then-blighted Bergen Hill neighborhood and, later, after a self-imposed exile, Harlem. In the eyes of the Jersey City politicians and police, Castle was a constant thorn, a reckless civil rights advocate who knew no rest; to the African-American and Latino communities, he was a selfless civic leader, a savior for the silenced and oft-persecuted minority.

Demme, the director of such acclaimed films as "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia," made "Cousin Bobby" as a tribute to his older cousin Castle. Critics praised the film's honesty and gripping portrait of one of the most controversial yet important religious figures to emerge out of the Civil Rights Movement.

A brief Q&A will follow the screening. Mr. Demme will not be able to attend the museum event, but he is scheduled to attend the Preservation Awards Ceremony to watch his cousin receive long-overdue recognition.

Tickets are $10 at the museum reception desk, or you may reserve your seat inside the museum's Caroline L. Guarini Theater with a credit card by calling the museum at 201-413-0303 x 141.

I hope to see everyone at both the Awards Ceremony and the "Cousin Bobby" screening!

John Gomez
Founder and Past President
Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy

More info at www. jclandmarks.org