Wichita County Heritage Society Preservation Award

Hello friends! Today, I wanted to tell you about something we are so excited about! We were awarded a Wichita County Heritage Society Preservation Award!

A congratulatory letter came in the mail about a month ago announcing we had been selected to receive a Residential Preservation Award from our Heritage Society. The award (and I quote) is “in recognition of the successful effort to preserve a piece of Wichita County history through historic preservation”. Y’all, we were so shocked and grateful! This has made my year! 🙂

If you’ve followed my blog very long, you know I love history and I love old homes. So that means I love the history behind the old homes. Living in our home and restoring it has been a dream come true. Even though we have lived here 6 years now, we are still not finished with all we’d like to do. When time and money are not limitless, and you’re doing the work yourselves, it takes a while! I don’t know that it will ever really be completely finished. I think there are already things I’d like to “redo” from the first “redo”. Ha! But seriously, it’s a lot of hard work. The biggest reward is getting to enjoy the home with our family, but this recognition in our city is such an honor.

This past week, we attended a dinner where we received a glass brick as an award to display in our home. We also will have a sign in our yard for one year in recognition of this award. Also, we get a complimentary year-long membership to the Heritage Society. A big thanks goes out to our kind neighbor, John Stephens (who lives in an amazingly gorgeous home he and his late wife restored), for nominating us for this award! Thank you!

Here’s a couple pics from the dinner.

In case you needed a reminder of where we started with this house, here’s how it looked the day we closed 6 years ago!

Below, you’ll see how the house looks today! We’ve done a little more to the exterior since the Heritage Society sneakily took that photo displayed at the dinner. Y’all, we FINALLY have some more shrubs! The yard needs a ton of work, but it’s a start. And how about that metal “P” on the chimney? I love it! It’s custom made from Vintage Metal Co. Check them out for custom metal signs!

We are so thrilled with our Wichita County Heritage Society Preservation Award! We love our home and so grateful to be blessed to live here.

I hope all of the wonderful mothers out there are having a fabulous Mother’s Day! I have had a beautiful day! We had time at church, then lunch with my mom and now just a relaxing afternoon. I think ice cream or coffee and a drive at golden hour will be on the agenda this evening!

Till the next time,

Kassie