New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles magazine and the Preservation Resource Center presented the prestigious Renaissance Award to this year's recipients at the fourth annual award ceremony. This year's honorees were:
J. Wardlaw Witherspoon Jr.
Lydia and Blair Francis Scanlon
Valorie Hart and Alberto Paz
Beverly McKenna
Wes and Melinda McWhorter
Steve Hronek took photographs on our behalf:
The luncheon crowd.
Editor-in-Chief Errol Laborde offers some opening remarks.
Keynote speaker Charlotte Moss speaks about restoration, inspiration and fabric.
Editor Eve Kidd Crawford announces the winners.
From left to right: J. Wardlaw Witherspoon Jr., Melinda and Wes McWhorter, Beverly McKenna, Valorie Hart and Alberto Paz.