“Our 2021 award-winning projects are models for what preservation can and should be: the creative, inclusive and sustainable reuse of our built environment promoting local job creation and community driven economic development,” Bonnie McDonald, Landmarks Illinois president and CEO said. “The courageous and visionary people behind these innovative projects deserve recognition for transforming places to serve as equitable housing, accessible art and education centers, and lively gathering spaces that bring awareness to Illinois’ diverse history.”
The work The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints has been working on preserving the Historic Temple District of Nauvoo, Illinois was recognized by Landmarks Illinois with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award.
The Temple District in Nauvoo, includes these three restored homes: the Weeks, Gheen and Hyde homes — the rebuilt Hunter home, the stone cutting exhibit at the Jones pavilion, the West Grove and a marker about a poem Eliza R. Snow wrote while living there.
The Temple District is the first phase of a 25-year plan created in 2014. It was created to improve Historic Nauvoo’s core messages, historical landscapes,quality and guest experience by 2039, which will be the 200th anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the city.
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