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Homestead Preserve Receives Outstanding Adaptive Use Award

1/28/2008
For Immediate Release
Website: http://www.homesteadpreserve.com

Last week the Association for the Preservation of Antiquities (APVA) presented Homestead Preserve the 2008 Outstanding Adaptive Use Award for its $6 million restoration and renovation of the Old Dairy Community Center in Warm Springs.

Old Dairy, which is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, consists of seven historic agricultural structures dating to the late 1920s. Those structures include a three-story Main Barn, the Herdsman’s Cottage, as well as two Milking Barns, Calf Barn, Milk House, and Bull Barn. Built in 1928, Old Dairy served The Homestead in Hot Springs for more than 50 years, supplying the resort’s dairy and beef needs.

APVA’s Public Programs Manager Terry Graham says Homestead Preserve’s Old Dairy restoration was particularly impressive to the awards committee, which is made up of architects as well as professionals working in the field of historic preservation, because of its previous use as an agricultural complex. “We are so concerned about rural historic districts and sites,” Graham says.

Graham further points to Old Dairy’s multipurpose use as a recreational and community center for Homestead Preserve owners, as an event space for the Bath County community at large, and as office space for the Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust and Preserve Community Association as further reason for the APVA’s selection.

Homestead Preserve developers Charles Adams and partner Don Killoren were instrumental in the design and development of Celebration, Florida, near Orlando, which was hailed as the “Most Advanced Community in the Country from 1996-1998” by The Guinness Book of World Records. Crosland, Inc. of Charlotte, NC is a financial partner in Homestead Preserve, and Crosland’s President and CEO Todd Mansfield was also directly involved in the development and success of Celebration, Florida. Crosland, Inc. is one of the Southeast’s leading and most diversified real estate companies. For more information, call Deborah Huso at (540) 474-5147, or e-mail drhuso@writewellmedia.com.

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