Shockoe Bottom highlighted at Golden Hammer awards event

The museum, at 2000 E. Cary St., is in an old tobacco warehouse and was among the adaptive reuse projects honored for excellence in preservation and renovation.

Kimberly Chen, architectural historian, and Vince Brooks, archivist at the Library of Virginia, co-hosted the event.

Recipients of this year's Golden Hammer Awards include:

• Jay Ipson, Virginia Holocaust Museum, who received the Andrew Asch Historic Developer Award;
• J. William Daniels/Historic Shockoe Partnership, who received the Marguerite Crumley Preservation Award;
• J. Maurice Duke, who won the Preservation Advocacy Award;
• Leigh S. Hulcher, who received the Richmond Association of Realtors Award; and
• Citizens Organized for Responsible Development, Best in Neighborhood Preservation.

ACORN presented its Golden Hammer for Best Residential Renovation to Savoy Properties for 407 Chimborazo Blvd.Boulevard.-RD> Laura and Paul Battaglia, owners of 617 N. 27th St., were named finalists. Nominees for the award included:

• 424 N. 25th St., Retro;
• 2120 E. Marshall St., Restoration Builders of Virginia; and
• W.W. Browne House, Walker Rowe Partnership Inc.

A Golden Hammer for Best Large-Scale Commercial Renovation was presented to Stanley Shield LLC for the Pohlig Box Factory, at 25th and East Franklin streets in Church Hill. Black Swan Books, owned by Nicholas Cooke III, was named Best Small-Scale Renovation. Finalist for Best Small-Scale Renovation was Je Depew for Jumpin' J's Java.

Nominees in the commercial renovation category included:

• 00 Broad St., 00 Broad Street LLC;
• 17th Street Lofts, S&S Construction;
• The Beers House, MCV Foundation;
• The Broadway Building, Shockoe Properties;
• Main Street Station, city of Richmond;
• Market Villas, Hamilton Development Group LLC;
• Morton's Tea Room Apartments, Dickson Properties; and
• One Monument Avenue, Dr. Ken Zaslav & Thomas M. Horton.

This article was published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on October 31, 2004.