On Saturday, April 20, 2024 Texas Historical Foundation presented the inaugural Michael C. Duda Preservation Awards to honor the memory of Architect and Former Texas Historical Foundation Board Member, Michael C. Duda, who passed away in 2019. 

The winners of the 2024 Michael C. Duda Awards represent substantial preservation initiatives that will have far-reaching impacts on Texas heritage education and tourism. THF awarded the top three projects with grants of $100,000, $30,000, and $20,000 to be used towards the completion of the project. 

THF is honored to offer these awards in the same spirit of service and enthusiasm for Texas heritage preservation that characterized Michael's life and legacy. Proceeds from the Michael C. Duda Historic Preservation Awards event will benefit the work of THF to preserve the rich and diverse history of Texas.

Michael C. Duda
Film by Mark Birnbaum

2024 Michael C. Duda Preservation Award Winners

Friends of the Wheelock School House
Wheelock, TX
 

Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum
Cuero, TX

Flower Hill Foundation
Austin, TX

Event Sponsors

CORINTHIAN SPONSORS

Bangs /  Costanza Families
The Lewis and Dilworth Family Fund
Fritz and Mary Lee Duda
Wahlquist / Tillotson Families

DORIC SPONSORS

Doell / Marz Families
Lee and Candyce Pfluger

PRESENTING SPONSOR

Image credit: 

The image for the 2024 Michael C. Duda Preservation Awards is of Michael Christopher Duda drawing the Alamo from a bronze relief sculpture for the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability by Andrew Wilson Smith located at the Walsh Family Hall of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, 2022.