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2005 Main Street Award Winners
We’d like to congratulate the owners of the Esquire Building and Lethbridge Main Street Project as the winner of this year’s Main Street Awards for Excellence in the Façade Rehabilitation category. The judges cited the project for the calibre of the Tyndall stone restoration on the facade and for its importance in recognizing this modernist building’s contribution to local heritage and to the appreciation of the recent past in general.
The program also congratulates the Red Deer’s Prairie Office Products and the Red Deer Main Street Project as this year’s best submission in the Business Signage category. Prairie Office Products was selected on the basis of its signs’ strong visual impact and compatibility with the distinctive, modern building exterior.
We would like to thank all of the participants for their interest in the Main Street Awards program. The program was initiated in 2003 to give project communities an opportunity to show off their accomplishments and for the Alberta Main Street Program to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of building and business owners, project architects and contractors. Award nominees are reviewed and judged by a panel of heritage preservation experts that includes restoration architects and preservation advisors. The Alberta Historical Resources Foundation’s Board of Directors presents the award certificates at its annual meeting with the Main Street program in the spring.
Esquire Building, Lethbridge, above right, as the Royal Bank and annex, circa 1950 and after rehabilitation by the Lethbridge Main Street Project in 2004.
Prairie Office Products, Red Deer, above left, in 1963 and after rehabilitation by the Red Deer Main Street Project in 2004.
Camrose’s Langbell Building (Lascala Jewellers), winner of the 2003 Main Street Award for Façade Restoration
Main Street Award certificate presented to the building owner, architect and coordinator of the Lethbridge Main Street Project.