first known duplexes built in the community. Photo courtesy of Chatham-Kent Municipal Heritage Registry.
Municipal officials are looking to pay tribute to Chatham-Kent’s architectural history.
The Chatham-Kent Heritage Awards Program has been revived, recognizing exceptional local efforts to preserve and restore Chatham-Kent’s heritage buildings.
Nominations are now open for local heritage building restoration or preservation project that deserves to be recognized in six categories:
Residential Preservation and Restoration Award
This award recognizes exceptional efforts to preserve and restore heritage homes to an original or historically accurate state
Industrial and Commercial Award
This award recognizes exceptional efforts to preserve and restore heritage commercial buildings (i.e. downtown buildings) and heritage industrial buildings (i.e. factories, warehouses, mills, etc.)
Rural and Agricultural Award
This award recognizes exceptional efforts to preserve and restore rural and agricultural heritage buildings (i.e. farmhouses, barns, shops etc.)
Best Practices / Emerging Practices Award
This award recognizes the use of new and innovative processes, materials and techniques to protect and restore heritage buildings
Adaptive Reuse Award
This award recognizes exceptional efforts to sensitively alter heritage buildings for a use that is different than what they were initially intended for (i.e. converting an old factory into apartments)
People’s Choice Award
This award recognizes efforts to preserve and restore heritage buildings that are popular in the community
The Mayor’s Heritage Awards is exclusively open to privately owned heritage buildings and properties. Publicly owned Buildings and properties are not eligible for awards under this program.
The nomination deadline is this Friday, October 31st. The awards ceremony will take place on February 21, 2026.
CLICK HERE to submit a nomination and find more information on the Chatham-Kent Heritage Awards Program.
