CHICAGO-This past Friday at the Davis Theater of Chicago, Landmarks Illinois presented the team restoring Historic Nauvoo with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award.

The other restoration category award was bestowed upon Union Station of Chicago.

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints created a 25-year plan to restore Historic Nauvoo’s core messages, historical landscapes, authenticity and guest experience by 2039.

That year is the Salt Lake City-based faith’s bicentennial year in Nauvoo.

The first phase of the plan was the completion of the Nauvoo Temple District in May 2021. This entailed the restoration of the Weeks, Gheen and Hyde homes, one rebuilt home (the Hunter home) and a new exhibit (the Jones pavilion), a revitalized West grove and a wayside marker honoring a poem written by famed Latter-day Saint Eliza R. Snow.