SOHO’s Awards Honor Lifetime Achievement, Supporters of Adaptive Reuse, Historic Districts

Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) has named its People In Preservation awards, a celebration of those safeguarding San Diego’s rich history.

The awards at this year’s 42nd annual event, on Sept. 13, spotlight three themes: National Historic Districts, adaptive reuse and the impact of lifetime preservation.

The awards ceremony will be held in the recently restored formal gardens, designed in the 1920s by Master Architect William Templeton Johnson, at the Marston House Museum near Balboa Park.

The 2024 PIP winners are:

• Lifetime Achievement – Howard Greenberg, adaptive reuse of 18 downtown buildings, and Diane Kane, historic preservation.
• Legacy – Judy Swink, accomplishments in cultural and environmental preservation.
• Mark G. Wiesner and Kerri Klein, commercial restoration and adaptive reuse of 1926 Blanche Barry Apartments in Hillcrest.
• Talmadge Historical Society and Eileen Magno and Camille Jorgensen of Heritage Architecture & Planning – for the successful nomination of Talmadge Park Estates Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places and the creation of new preservation tools.
• Molly McLain, Seonaid McArthur, Diane Kane and the La Jolla Historical Society – for the successful nomination of the La Jolla Park Coastal Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.

SOHO, based in Balboa Park, manages and operates historic sites and resources throughout San Diego County. It was founded in 1969 to save a single home, the 1887 Sherman-Gilbert House in Old Town.