

Award Winners
The first annual Des Moines Heritage Trust Historic Preservation Awards Dinner will celebrate eight recently completed historic preservation projects and the people behind each project. Awardees include individuals, non-profit boards, government and development leaders in our region who are enhancing the places we call home by reviving our past into vibrant places for our future.

Historic Preservation Champion
Tim Rypma - Rypma Properties

Historic Preservation Hall of Fame
William Wagner

Historic Preservation Project of the Year – Commercial – Under 5,000 Square Feet
French Way Cleaner

Historic Preservation Project of the Year – Commercial – Greater than 5,000 Square Feet
Val Air Ballroom

Historic Preservation Project of the Year – Residential
1074 31st Street
Des Moines

Adaptive reuse project of the year
Winterset school apartment conversion

Public project of the year
Iowa State Fair Sheep Barn - Iowa Blue Ribbon Foundation

Special Project of the Year
Rocket Slide - Des Moines Union Park Foundation

Presenting Sponsor
