37th Annual Preservation Achievement Awards

On October 21, 2025 we celebrated outstanding preservation in Boston and honored Daniel Dain, recipient of the Susan Park President’s Award and Byron Rushing, recipient of the Codman Award for Lifetime Achievement. We premiered films featuring our Preservation Award recipients and are now slicing and dicing the films to package them individually and share them via Youtube and link them to the project pages. The films will be shared here around November 11.

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To an outsider, a building might just be a building. An object with no meaning. But once you lean in, learn the story, and people connect to place, it becomes much more than just a building. It becomes an item of value. Cherished. Prized. These are the places that become proud symbols of a neighborhood.

This could be a Gothic Revival church that carries a long tradition of standing up for civil rights in America, or a wind-swept plaza renovated to become more inviting to host what it never quite has before-Life. This year, our award recipients all go above and beyond in connecting people to place by adapting buildings to be focused on people and the communities who use and experience them. When numerous stories of our past are presented together we get a fuller picture of Boston and a firm stick in the ground that says this place matters. Our history matters. We matter.

When it comes to preservation, it is the story of people that make places special and this year’s award recipients are central in telling that story.

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Congratulations to our 2025 Preservation Award Recipients!

Susan Park President's Award for Excellence: Daniel P. Dain

Daniel P. Dain has devoted his professional career to the question of what makes cities successful. Through his law practice and research on urban policy and law, he has concluded that constant innovation is the lifeblood of vital cities, and to create the conditions necessary to foster innovation, cities must be committed to what Dan calls the three “Ds” – density, diversity, and [good urban] design – how to create those urban spaces that will attract lots of people from different backgrounds and experiences to exchange ideas that will lead to new insights and innovations.

2025 Codman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Byron Rushing

Byron Rushing is a longtime community leader, public historian, and advocate for equity whose career has been deeply rooted in preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Massachusetts. As a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served from 1983 to 2018, Rushing became widely recognized not only for his legislative leadership but also for his commitment to protecting the state’s historic neighborhoods and landmarks.