Warm Springs, Virginia – March 17, 2009. . . Homestead Preserve’s Old Dairy Community Center received recognition last month from the Palladio Awards Program for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the structure completed in 2007. The Palladio Awards are sponsored by Restore Media, publisher of Period Homes and Traditional Building magazines. Urban Design Associates (UDI), Old Dairy’s project architect, won the 2009 Palladio Adaptive Reuse and/or Sympathetic Addition Award for its restoration of the 1920s agricultural complex and its renovation of the buildings to meet the modern needs of a community and recreation center for the conservation community of Homestead Preserve.
Homestead Preserve’s Old Dairy Community Center consists of seven historic structures dating to the late 1920s. Those structures include a three-story Main Barn, Herdsman’s Cottage, as well as a Ham House, Calving Barn, Bottling Building, and Bull Barn. Built in 1928, Old Dairy served The Homestead in Hot Springs for more than 50 years, supplying all of the resort’s dairy and beef needs.
Homestead Preserve, which purchased Old Dairy from The Homestead in 2002, spent $6 million to restore the long abandoned historic agricultural complex in 2007. In the last two years, Old Dairy has received numerous recognitions including listing on the National Register of Historic Places, designation as a Virginia Historic Landmark, and an award for Outstanding Adaptive Use from the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA).
The Palladio Awards Program is designed to honor outstanding achievement in traditional design. The Palladio Awards are named in honor of Andrea Palladio, the Renaissance architect who created modern architecture for his time while using models from the past for inspiration and guidance. The awards are sponsored by Period Homes and Traditional Building magazines. Old Dairy will be featured in the June issue of Traditional Building.
UDA is a group of architects headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who design cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Their goal is to create beautiful places with lasting value for the communities they serve. UDA has won repeated awards from the Congress for New Urbanism, Urban Land Institute, and the National Association of Home Builders for their pattern books, urban site plans, and urban redevelopment plans.
Homestead Preserve developers and Celebration Associates partners Charles Adams and Don Killoren were instrumental in the design and development of Celebration, Florida, near Orlando, which was hailed as the “Most Advanced Community in the Country from 1996-1998” by The Guinness Book of World Records. Celebration Associates has for the past ten years been a partner in developing the community of Baxter Village in South Carolina, and is also a partner leading the real estate development projects at Bundoran Farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Mt. Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire. Crosland, LLC, of Charlotte, NC is a financial partner in Homestead Preserve, Bundoran Farm and Mount Washington Resort. Crosland’s President and CEO Todd Mansfield was also directly involved in the development and success of Celebration, Florida. Crosland, LLC. is one of the Southeast’s leading and most diversified real estate companies.
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