Longtime preservation advocate Minnette Boesel is being recognized with GHPA's President's Award for her leadership, dedication and years of volunteer service. A former GHPA president, Boesel was one of the first to promote downtown revitalization through the adaptive reuse of historic buildings as residential lofts and apartments. She remains a leading proponent for downtown Houston's redevelopment and has also been involved in a partnership that is renovating several historic homes in Eastwood, a historic neighborhood east of downtown. | Visit Minnette Boesel's Web site

Next winner: Galleria I

Photo courtesy of Peter Boesel

3401 Allen Parkway, the former Rein Co. Building

22nd Street Lofts, an adaptive reuse of a Heights textile factory

308 Cordell St., a 1910 bungalow in the Brooke Smith Addition

"Rosecroft," an Arts & Crafts-style home in Eastwood

1605 Heights Blvd., a 1918 Alfred C. Finn-designed home

Willow Street Pump Station, an adaptive reuse of early 20th century civic buildings

Hotel Icon, the former Union National Bank Building

Summer Street Project, the restoration of nine First Ward cottages

John P. McGovern Campus of the Texas Medical Center, the former Nabisco bakery

Down in Houston, a literary look at Houston's blues scene

Houston House & Home magazine: Preservation Partner in Print Award

Menil House, the restoration of the 1951 Philip Johnson design

Minnette Boesel for leadership in local preservation

Galleria I: AIA 25 Year Award

Foley's: AIA 50 Year Award