The Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Bergen County Historic Preservation Awards.

Since 1982, over 300 awards have been presented in honor of outstanding historic preservation achievements by individuals, students, organizations, and businesses. These awards were created to encourage preservation, restoration and adaptive use of Bergen County’s valuable and irreplaceable historic buildings, houses, schools, houses of worship, cemeteries, and other historic sites.

The seven nomination categories are:

Historic Preservation
Projects
Education
Leadership

History
Publication
Education
Leadership

Young Historian Award

CLICK HERE for the Nomination Form and for more information about the categories and applicant criteria.

Nomination Deadline:  Nominations must be submitted to the Trust Fund Administrators at the Bergen County Department of Parks by 4:30 P.M. on Friday, March 21^st, 2025.

Winners will be honored at the 2025 Bergen County Historic Preservation Awards, scheduled for Thursday, May 8^th, 2025.

For questions about the Historic Preservation Awards, please contact:

Elaine Kiernan Gold, Historic Preservation Specialist

Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board
Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs
County of Bergen
One Bergen County Plaza, 4th Floor
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076
(201) 336-7294, Fax (201) 336-7262
egold@bergencountynj.gov