At its 2003 annual meeting Preservation Durham bestowed the George and Mary Pyne Preservation Awards to ten exciting preservation projects in Durham. The projects include private houses, two of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a downtown commercial building, a former school building adapted for a diet clinic, and the art deco-style waterworks on Hillsborough Street. Preservation and creativity continue to thrive in the Bull City! (* indicates the building is included in The Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory.)

AMED TILLEY HOUSE & FARM, 6404 Amed Road,near Bahama. This classic I-form farmhouse was built about 1914. The present owner retained many original features during the restoration of the house, including 1918 electric light fixtures. He also restored many of the outbuildings and his on-site business, Architectural Trees, has enhanced the overall landscape of the property. The Amed Tilley House is a Durham Local Historic Landmark.

MARCUS TILLEY HOUSE, Joe Ellis Road, near Bahama. This house has been in the Tilley family since the early 19th century. Nannie May Tilley, one of a group of early female Southern historians, lived here in the 1920s and 30s. Her 1948 dissertation, The Bright-Tobacco Industry: 1860-1929 remains the standard reference book on the subject. Current family members have restored many original features while keeping changes installed by earlier generations. The Marcus Tilley House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

ADOLPHUS UMSTEAD HOUSE, Bahama Road. The current owners found this two-story, pre-railroad, national style, I-plan house with a Greek Entry and later accretions abandoned. They have carerfully restored it from the foundation up, reusing every every scrap of the original fabric they could save and today the Adolphus Umstead House continues to tell of our community's earliest days. The Adolphus Umstead House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

GEORGE POLAND HOUSE, 500 John Jones Road,near Bahama. NCSU School of Design Professor of Architecture George Matsumoto designed this fine example of modernism in 1954. The present owner purchased the house in 2001 and moved it from its original site in Wake County to rural Durham County. Over the past two years he has restored this property to its original condition, going to great lengths to keep the interior true as well.

*MANSFIELD HOUSE, 2109 Englewood Avenue.This classic American bungalow was built in 1924. The present owners removed layers of wallpaper and 1/4" plywood paneling, restored plaster walls, uncovered original siding, rebuilt a distinctive watertable, restored fireplaces, and renovated a badly outdated kitchen and bathrooms. This project was done as a N.C. Tax Credit project, and the State Historic Preservation office wants the chimneys rebuilt as soon as the budget allows. It is a pleasure to recognized a complex renovation that has taken "more" and made it "less" and pure and simple.

LIGGETT & MYERS MILL HOUSE, 507 Yancey Street. This pre-1915 house had been totally debilitated by thoughtless rehabilitations. The current owner, a native of New Orleans who says he couldn't envision living in a new house without history, uncovered a long-hidden bead-and-board ceiling, plaster walls with lovely wainscoting, and wide-plank heart pine floors, and removed the various partitions that had divided the house into apartments. We are pleased he has come to Durham and that he has restored one more part of our historic housing stock.

WYCHE HOUSE, now the NCSSM Royall Center, North Carolina School of Science and Math. In 1909 the new Watts Hospital opened its doors. In 1911 this building was erected as a living and learning center for head nurse Mary Wyche's nurse's training program The NCSSM took over the old campus in 1980, and has been gradually restoring the old hospital buildings. The Wyche House was dedicated in May 2003, renamed in honor of Senator Kenneth Royall- a long time friend and advocate of the school.

HILLANDALE (OLD RESERVOIR) SCHOOL, 3543 Rose of Sharon Road, Rice Diet Program Clinic. One of only a few rural schoolhouses in Durham County that is still standing, this building was constructed ca. 1920 and served the community of Huckleberry Springs for over a decade. The building later served as a residence and in the 1990s was restored for use a part if the Rice Diet. This building is an excellent example of an adaptive reuse. It retains and utilizes all of the character-defining elements of its original use while being completely functional for its modern day purposes.

OLD FIVE POINTS LOAN COMPANY BUILDING, 339 W. Main Street.After receiving a Pyne Award for renovations to 329 W. Main Street in 2000, the owner purchased and renovated this building, combining modernity with respectful interventions that accentuate the historic elements of the building shell to create a residence above and a potential commercial space on the street level. The creative tenants have adapted the lower floor into his and her studies and a library.

*THE WATERWORKS WILLIAMS PLANT, 1405 Hillandale Road, City of Durham Department of Environmental Resources.The earliest part of this building dates to 1917 and the complex served the city well into the 1980s. By 1995, however, there was talk of bringing the buildings down. Thanks to the advocacy of HPSD and a sympathetic city government, the old waterworks was not only spared but lovingly restored. The city has removed earlier coats of white paint and restored the large arched windows on the facade, returning the building to its original appearance.