7th Annual Preservation Week 2005 Photo-Essay Winners

Elementary (Grades 1-5)

First Place: Kristeena Rosser
The Pembroke Ruritan Community Center: - "The Pembroke Ruritan Community Center was the former Pembroke High School Gymnasium. It was built in 1939 by the PWA (Public Works Administration) under President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration. It was then called the Physical/Industrial Arts Building.

Second Place: Tyler Bowles
Glasgow Railroad Station: - "What a wonderful part of history. Imagine what it would be like to revisit the Glasgow Railroad Station in it's day. The railroad ran from Glasgow to Glasgow Junction (Park City) to connect with the main line of the Louisville-Nashville rail line."

Third Place: Tamra Ocasio
Haycraft Stagecoach Inn: - "The Haycraft Inn in Radcliff, Kentucky is the oldest standing structure in our city. The first part was built in 1814 by Coleman Lewis on the Old Louisville-Nashville Turnpike. This is now South Wilson Street. The builder was a veteran from the War of 1812."

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

First Place: Rebekah Hartson
Big Spring School, One old building that equals new opportunity: - "Big Springs School is one of many historic buildings in Allen County. As I drive by this one-room schoolhouse on my way home each day, I can just see the children running around in the yard laughing and playing."

Second Place: Tyler Mullins
The Robert Brown House: -"On the southeast corner of Third and High is a vacant building. What used to be an elaborate parsonage is now run down by weather and neglect. The house had been under renovation, but the people who were repairing it quit."

Third Place: Meredith Scalos
Come one! Come All! The Merchants Hotel awaits you! - "Let's step back into the 1910s when Main Street was a bustling center for the city of Campbellsville. The buildings were an important part of Main Street, and one of these astounding creations was the Merchant's Hotel."

High School (Grades 9-12)

First Place: Jessica Williams
Take me down to Carolina: - " The words “Greensville Missionary Baptist Church ” don't mean much to anyone in Allen County. In fact, most people have never heard of this place, and even if they have, they probably wouldn't care about it. To be truthful, I live only a few miles from this church and pass it every week, but I didn't even know the name of it until I started doing research."

Second Place: Shiloh Adams
The World runs through Isom: An account of a lost postal empire. - "In the small town of Isom, Kentucky, right in the same area as the Halcomb's Dairy Bar and the antique store ran by a local veteran, lies a shabby white shack, complete with a small porch, chipped paint job and lack of any cohesively steady structure whatsoever."

Third Place: Greg Tackett
Historic Building Essay: -"A tradition lost in present times has been that of a community doctor. In movies we see how a mother may send the youngest child to “fetch the doctor” in which the child would run down the street and knock on the doctor's door. In today's time we would drive to the emergency room."