The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation supports professional preservationists researching topics which touch upon various themes, including — but not limited to — those listed below.
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Nakita Reed / Navigating Historic Preservation Approvals for Climate Adaptation
2026, Fitch Mid-Career
Richard McCoy / Preservation in Public: Art, Design, and the Making of Civic Belonging
2026, Fitch Mid-Career
Lara Davis / Swamp and Stone
2026, Robert Silman Award
Sean Denniston / Building Performance Standards
2025, Fitch Mid-Career
Amy Hetletvedt / Approaches to Disinvested Buildings
2024, Fitch Mid-Career
Katherine Wonson / Preservation Maintenance at NPS
2024, Fitch Mid-Career
Justin Den Herder / 2X
2023, Robert Silman Award
Suzana Radivojevic / Architectural Plywood
2023, Fitch Mid-Career
Liz McEnaney & Naomi Hersson-Ringskog / Building Shells: Building Community
2022, Richard Blinder Award
Jobie Hill / The Silenced Voices in Interpreting Sites of Slavery
2021, Fitch Mid-Career
Laura Blokker and Andrew Liles / Transformative Preservation
2020, Richard Blinder Award
Heidi Hohmann / The Minneapolis Lakes
2020, Fitch Mid-Career
Bonnie McDonald / Preservation Relevancy Guidebook
2020, Fitch Mid-Career
Michael Holleran / The Urban Ditch
2019, Fitch Mid-Career
Margaret Lester / Minerva Parker Nichols
2019, Fitch Mid-Career
Jonathan F. Bell & Ian Baldwin / SLICE: The Inhabited Facade
2018, Richard Blinder Award
Laura Buchner / Luminous Dalle de Verre
2018, Fitch Mid-Career
Mark Rakantansky / Digital Humanities Techniques
2017, Kress Fellowship
Paul Kapp / Heritage & the Great Depression
2017, Fitch Mid-Career
Frampton Tolbert / Queens Modern: The Architects
2017, Fitch Mid-Career
Christina Wallace / Architecture of the Coastal Salish Tribes
2016, Fitch Mid-Career
Nadya Nenadich / Comparing Preservation in Three Cities
2016, Fitch Mid-Career
Tim Frank / Thermal Zoning in Domestic Structures
2015, Kress Fellowship
Angel Ayón / Assessing and Re-Glazing Modernism
2015, Fitch Mid-Career
Rebecca Ward / Reinventing the Broadway Theatre
2014, Richard Blinder Award
Amanda Schachter & Alexander Levi / Bronx River Right-of-Way, Phase II
2014, Richard Blinder Award
Beatriz del Cueto / Concrete and Cement in the Tropics
2014, Fitch Mid-Career
Adrian Scott Fine / Picking Up the Pieces
2014, Fitch Mid-Career
Allan Shearer / Modernism + the Invention of Microclimate
2013, Fitch Mid-Career
Mandy Metcalf / Right-Sizing Cleveland
2013, Fitch Mid-Career
Edgar Garcia / Legacy of the Chicano Movement
2013, Fitch Mid-Career
2012 / Designing the American Century
2012 / Continuum of Classicism
2012 / Nuestra Herencia Americana
2011 / Fallingwater
2010-2011 / Preservation among Pueblo People
2010-2011/ Historic Preservation Theory
2010-2011 / Bronx River Right-of-Way, Phase I
2009 / Louisiana’s Bousillage Tradition
2009 / Intangible Cultural Heritage
2008 / Guide to Historic Roads
2008 / Community Development
2008 / American Architect-Engineers in the 19th Cen.
2007 / The Architecture of W.A. Sarmiento
2007 / Denver’s Civic Center Park
2006 / Saving American Synagogues
2006 / Preservation Engineering
2005 / The Work of Beatrix Farrand
2005 / The American Gulf Coast
2005 / Antiques Dealers and “Second Hand Cities”
2004 / New Codes for Old Buildings
2003 / New Futures for House Museums
2002 / Investigating Wood in Historic Structures
2002 / 19th C. Street Panoramas
2001 / The Rowhouse Reborn
2001 / The Architecture of Racial Segregation
2000 / Preservation and Lasting Landscapes
1999 / NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1998 / Public Spaces from the Bottom Up
1998 / The American Garden Cemetery
1997 / Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture
1997 / A Study of Baltimore’s Rowhouses
1996 / Historic Resource Mitigations
1995 / Central Avenue, Los Angeles
1995 / Modern Architecture in Southern California
1994 / Historic and Modern Rural Housing Form
1994 / Travel for Protection of Sacred Sites
1994 / Manufacturing Colored Glass and Lead
1993 / Impact of Design Guideline Publications
1993 / Preserving the American Grain Elevator
1992 / Preservation in the Caribbean
1992 / Hydrophobization Agents and Treatments
1992 / Our Town: An Architectural Perspective
1991 / Management of Tribal Cultural Resources
