2025 Preservation Awards

This community event recognizes our engineers, historians, architects, students, researchers, construction workers, and everyone who does the tangible work of architectural and cultural heritage conservation.

Register for the Preservation Awards

Every year, the Santa Monica Conservancy releases a survey to local community members requesting nominations for people and projects that steward history, champion sustainability, and celebrate craftsmanship. We then research these nominations through a process that culminates in the annual Preservation Awards. At this event, we recognize the role of historic places and local cultural narratives in shaping Santa Monica’s future.

Admission is ticketed at $25. Purchase includes access to the awards and a reception where they’ll enjoy a “Taste of Santa Monica”, sampling food from local restaurants, and docent-led tours of the historic Miles Playhouse. The reception begins at 4:30 p.m. at the Miles Playhouse in Reed Park. The awards begin with greetings at 5:30 p.m.