Hilltop | 18th Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards

John and Margherita Marshall were awarded a Doris Duke Historic Preservation Award for exemplary millwork restoration best practices completed by local tradespeople at Hilltop, the ca. 1871 Richard Morris Hunt and ca. 1895 William Ralph Emerson expanded house in Newport. The project highlights quality artisanship and skill as well as the need for continued investment in perpetuating the historic trades.

The 2024 Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards highlight innovative approaches to preservation, including new technologies, materials/products, creative adaptive reuse, and excellence in practice, climate change adaptations, and similarly progressive concepts.

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About NRF

The Newport Restoration Foundation is a non-profit organization established by philanthropist Doris Duke in 1968 to preserve the architectural and cultural heritage of 18th and 19th century Newport. NRF promotes economic and community restoration through historic preservation initiatives like Keeping History Above Water, which addresses the impact of sea-level rise on the built environment in the wake of climate change, and the Historic Trades Initiative, which harnesses the knowledge of local specialists to train the next generation of preservation craftspeople. In addition to a collection of more than 70 colonial houses, now rented to tenant stewards, NRF operates properties that are open to the public —including Rough Point, the Newport home of Doris Duke, and The Vernon House, a site of expansive storytelling, contemporary dialogue, and preservation trades skill-building.

For more information, visit https://www.newportrestoration.org