ANNUAL PRESERVATION AWARDS CEREMONY, MAY 18TH, 2005

The 2005 Annual preservation awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at the Patee House Museum, 12th & Penn, starting at 7:00pm.  The Saint Joseph Landmark Commission is hosting the event. Nominations were accepted by the Commission and now the public is invited to vote through May 5th.  This year's nominees are:

RESIDENTIAL REHABILATION:

Pam & Lee Cone for 1423 Francis

David & Kathy Bahner for 2015 Faraon

Jeff & Claudia Daum for 608 North 6th

Charlie & Donna Nill for 632 Bonton

Tim & Dawn Terrick for 619 South 13th

John & Karen Wood for 1019 Powell

Jeff & Claudia Daum for 215 North 7th

Chuck & Sheila Nill for 1401 Jules

COMMERCIAL REHABILATION:

DWD Enterprises (Jeff Daum) for the Leeds Woolen Mill Building, 702 Felix

Integrated Assets, Ltd. (Winston Bennett, Royce & Mary Balak) for the Commerce Building, 7th & Edmond

George Ruwwe (Bob Ruwwe, Jr.) for 710 Felix

PRESERVATION MAINTENANCE:

Dean Howe & Robert Moldowan for 110 South 15th

Jerry Kress & Ed Schmermund for 2120 Faraon

St. Joseph Country Club for 50 Ridgeland Road

Several Special Recognition Awards will also be given out at the ceremony.  The event is held in conjunction with National Preservation Month, this year's theme being "Communities at a Crossroads."  After the ceremony, refreshments will be served in the Buffalo Bar Saloon.  Attendees are also welcome to tour the museum.

TOP 10 ENDANGERED PROPERTY RECEPTION TO BE HELD MAY 24, 2005

The Saint Joseph Landmark Commission adopted their annual Top 10 Endangered Property list on April 19, 2005.  To raise awareness of the potential loss of these threatened historic structures, the Landmark Commission is teaming up with Heritage Action Campaign, St. Joseph Preservation, Inc., and Missouri Western State College Departments of Photography and Communication to hold an endangered properties reception on Tuesday May 24, 2005, at the Missouri Valley Bank Trust, 4th & Felix.  Basic building research on each property will have been completed and compiled into a handbook.  Information on economic incentives for the rehabilitation of these buildings will also be available at the reception. 

The 2005 Top 10 Endangered Properties are as follows, in no particular order:

 215 S. 13th

 902 S. 15th – Olive Street M.E. Church

 1015 Duncan – Esther Cowles House

 514 N. 10th – T.W. Harl House

 611-613 N. 10th

 1202 Lafayette – German Salem Church

 605 N. 13th – Lydia Haberda House

 709 and 713 S. 9th

 1310 S. 6th

 1427 S. 6th – Hannibal & St. Joseph RR Repair Shops

COMMERMORATIVE RE-RUN OF THE PONY EXPRESS, JUNE 12-22, 2005

PONY EXPRESS RIDES AGAIN

The National Pony Express Association will once again conduct a Re-Ride of the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, June 12 to 22, 2005. This re-ride will be a 10-day, 24-hour a day, non-stop event by over 500 riders and horses. The 1,966 mile route will be over the Pony Express National Historic Trail from Missouri through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to California.

The event commemorates the Pony Express of 1860-1861. The Central Overland and California Pikes Peak Express Company carried letters and telegrams for 19 months to prove the Central Route through Salt Lake passable year round. The owners hoped to win a federal mail contract on that route. Pony Express history is preserved in the federally designated Historic Trail, administered by the National Park Service, in museums, Pony Rider monuments, books, and the annual re-creations by the NPEA.

Riders will carry Commemorative Letters in a mochila, pony express style. The cachets, honoring Pony Express history, will be available for purchase by NPEA members, historians, and philatelists. The envelopes will show they were carried by the Pony Express and the first class postage will have a special US Postal service cancellation. Only the number of letters purchased will be carried.

For more information, visit http://www.xphomestation.com/2005-reride.html