Nominations are Open for the 2025 Askins Achievement Award

Nominations for the 2025 Askins Achievement Award are now being accepted and may be submitted until April 1, 2025. The Askins Achievement Award is named in honor of James S. (Jim) Askins, founder of the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center and recognizes contributions over and above the noteworthy. The award criteria include contributions to the preservation trades for

• Continuance of traditional building skills

• Advocacy of training in preservation trades

• Practicing a building trade at master level of skill and knowledge

• Extraordinary effort given to advancing the awareness of traditional building trade skills and knowledge.

To learn about the Askins Award and read about previous recipients visit the PTN website HERE .

You do not have to be a member of PTN to make a nomination for the Askins Achievement Award. Nominations from previous years may be resubmitted and are encouraged. Nomination forms and award guidelines can be viewed below. The 2025 Askins Achievement award will be presented at 2025 IPTW.

submit Nomination HERE 

Guidelines and Nomination Procedure for the Askins Achievement Award

• Achievement Award recipients do not have to be members of Preservation Trades Network.

• Nominators for the Askins Achievement Award do not have to be members of the Preservation Trades Network, and they do not have to be Award Recipients.
• Recipients of the Askins Achievement Award are the group that administers the award and selects future recipients.
• The award was established to be distinct from and separate from the Preservation Trades Network Board of Directors.
• The permanent award plaque listing previous winners is owned by the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center and shall be displayed and kept up to date by the HPTC at the HPTC Headquarters at Gambrill House, Frederick, MD.  The Logo is loaned to PTN for use on the individual Award Plaque given to each year’s winner.
• A recipient selected by the others shall take on the administration of the award on behalf of the Askins Achievement Award group.
• The new recipient shall be contacted to ensure that the plaque is created in the manner desired by the recipient. 
• The criteria for the Askins Achievement Award are stated in the nomination form.
• The Askins Achievement Award group shall solicit nominations from the Preservation Trades Community at large.  
• The Askins Achievement Award group shall have the right by majority vote to approve or disapprove use of the Award for marketing or promotion by the Preservation Trades Network Board of Directors.
• The Askins Award Recipient shall have a nominator who has provided a written nomination form and is willing to introduce the recipient.
• Announcement of the Askins Award Recipient shall be published in the PTN Newsletter and other media after the International Preservation Trades Workshop.  
• Announcement of the Askins Award Recipient before the International Preservation Trades Workshop is subject to a majority vote of the recipients.
• The business of the Askins Achievement Award group may be conducted by conference call, direct meeting, or email.  A quorum to conduct the business of the group shall be a majority of the recipients.
• Nominations stand for one year.  The nomination may re-submitted.

Past Askins Achievement Award Recipients

2024 - Rob Cagnetta

2023 - Moss Rudley

2022 - Marjorie Hunt

2021 - Will Beemer

2020 - Bill Hole

2019 - Jane Wooley

2018 - Patrick Kennedy

2017 - James Turner

2016 - Carol Heidschuster

2015 - David Hayles

2014 - David R. Mertz

2013 - Duffy Hoffman 

2012 - Simeon Warren 

2011 - Dominic DeRubis

2010 - Neil Rippingale

2009 - Robert Adam

2008 - David Gibney

2007 - Dr. Gerard C.J. Lynch

2006 - Earl Barthé 

2005 - Joseph Jenkins 

2004 - John William Laing 

2003 - Jimmy Price 

2002 - Bill Gichner 

2001 - Lisa Sasser 

2000 - Rudy R. Christian 

1999 - John Fugelso 

1998 - James S. (Jim) Askins