BU College of Fine Arts Recognized by Preservation Massachusetts with Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award
Award demonstrates how preservation goes beyond historic buildings and landscapes to include our stories, our neighborhoods, and important lessons for our future.
Preservation Massachusetts, a non-profit organization that educates and empowers people to preserve and reuse historic resources, recently announced its 2022 Preservation Awardees. Among the winners… us! The BU College of Fine Arts (H.K. Noyes & Sons Buick) is a recipient of the 2022 Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award!
The award recognizes preservation projects that are transformative, catalytic, embrace the community, create partnerships and revitalize the best of the past to make something good for the future.
“This year’s award recipients demonstrate how preservation goes beyond historic buildings and landscapes—it also includes important lessons for the future of our communities,” said Erin Kelly, Executive Director of Preservation Massachusetts. “This May, we are celebrating projects and people that have encouraged collaboration among the Commonwealth’s diverse communities, and we are thrilled to be gathering in person once again to honor these deserving awardees.”
Once upon a time, CFA at 855 Commonwealth Avenue was a Noyes Buick car dealership (check out this brief history of 855 Comm). In 1954, CFA moved into the space transforming the structure into a life-changing college for student artists. From 2018 to 2020, CFA had extensive renovations completed, including the installation of arched, expansive windows that allow passersby to see the Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery or hear the magical sounds of our students’ instruments while they are walking up and down the sidewalk of Comm Ave.
All of the 19 awardees will be honored at a celebration—the first in-person event since 2019—at Boston’s historic Fairmont Copley Plaza on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.