Historic Macon handed out its 2025 Preservation Awards Tuesday night, honoring significant restoration projects and saluting four people for their contributions to the community.

The preservation nonprofit welcomed a new board chairman and a new slate of board members, and it also renamed one of its awards for the late Josh Rogers.

Executive Director Nathan Lott shared highlights of Historic Macon’s last 12 months, welcoming those who attended the annual meeting, held at the new Bibb Music Lofts.

“You support Historic Macon because you believe in our mission — to revitalize communities,” he said. “We work within our field of expertise to foster economic vitality and cultural vitality for the people who call our historic city home.”

Historic Macon has consulted on more than 140 tax incentive projects in more than  a dozen cities across Georgia, Lott said. These projects have generated over $145 million in private investment and created more than 400 housing units.

In renaming Historic Macon’s Revitalization Award for Rogers, Bowen Reichert Shoemaker, HMF’s outgoing board chair, told those gathered: “We pondered how best to honor the legacy of Josh Rogers, and finally determined that the most fitting thing we could do was to rename the Revitalization Award in his honor. 

“Josh was a powerful force for revitalization in Macon, and from this year forward this award will bear his name.”

Here are HMF’s 2025 Preservation Award winners:

Repair, Restoration or Renewal of a residential single-family home:

• She and Doug Keene, the house at 730 College St. (Designed by Neel Reid).

• Lida Hill, the house at 1238 Jefferson Terrace. (Designed by Neel Reid).

Preservation, Rehabilitation or Restoration of Commercial, Institutional or Rental Property:

• Todd Ussery, residential space at 552 New St.

• Michael Moore and Aimee Hall, law offices at 2437 Vineville Ave.

Josh M. Rogers Revitalization Award:

• Greg Ragins, the house at 335 Balkcom Ave.

• Karla Redding-Andrews, the Otis Redding Center for the Arts, 436 Cotton Ave.

Katherine Carmichael Oliver Stewardship Award: 

• James Caldwell

Maryel Ramsey Battin Award (for contributions to Historic Macon and its mission):

• Kathy and Roy Griffis

Jenny Thurston Award (lifetime achievement):

• Martha Duke

Thad E. Murphey President's Choice Award:

• Nate and Kaitlynn Kressin, Alicia Holton, Bibb Music Lofts, 315-317 Cotton Ave.