watercolor painting of the courtyard of a Spanish style home with a large tree in the foreground

Jewel Awards

The Jewel Awards celebrate the patience, perseverance and talent required from La Jolla property owners who successfully and faithfully restore and rehabilitate their properties. These Awards are sponsored by LJHS’s Landmark Group, a collective of owners of historically designated homes in La Jolla, dedicated to ensuring the continued enjoyment of La Jolla’s unique history and architecture for future generations.

To nominate a deserving project for the 2024 Jewel Awards, complete this form.

2023 Jewel Award Winners

  • white colonial revival home with a picket fence

    Award for Restoration Residential, Pre WWII

    347 Dunemere Drive, Minimal Traditional w/ Colonial Revival Influence, 1931

    Charles D. and Laura K. Larkin House

  • pink apartment building with arched iron details overlooking the Pacific Ocean

    Award for Restoration Residential, Post WWII

    800 Prospect Street, International Modernist, 1963

    Park Prospect Condominiums / Russell Forester Building

  • corner, curved business with windows all along the front with a neon sign on the brick details

    Award for Restoration - Non-Residential

    5680 La Jolla Boulevard, Iconic Bird Rock Presence, 1949

    Buchman’s Ice Cream / William Kesling, original owner / architect

  • exterior photo of the Museum of Contemporary Art by Maha Bazzari: windowed entrance

    Award for Restoration - Non-Residential

    700 Prospect Street

    Ellen Browning Scripps / Irving Gill 1915

    Mosher & Drew renovations, 1950-1980

    Venturi Scott Brown, 1996

    Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

    Photo by Maha Bazzari

  • An image of a wooden bridge along a coastal bluff.

    Award for Preservation

    Coastal Walk Trail and Devil’s Slide Footbridge, dates from Kumeyaay use, designated historic landscape in 1990

    Key Partners: Cave Store, City/City Council of San Diego, La Jolla Planning Groups, La Jolla Light, Rotary, San Diego Foundation, local schools, Boy Scouts

white modern house with a view of the pool

Honorable Mention

7390 Via Capri, Mid-Century Modern, 1961 - 1962

Lloyd Swortwood / Roger Mathews, owner / architect

white house with shutters and a front garden

Honorable Mention

7777 Lookout, early home / adobe, 1926

Vanessa Whitely, nominee

2022 Jewel Award Winners

  • white Tudor revival house

    Award for Restoration Residential, Pre WWII

    1237 Torrey Pines Road, Tudor Revival, 1927

    Scott and Stephanie Zingheim, owners

  • Palapa roof with surfboards

    Award for Preservation

    Windansea Surf Club And Friends of Windansea

  • white Spanish style home with Palm trees

    Award for Rehabilitation

    6631 Neptune Place, Spanish Eclectic, c. 1928

    Linda Wilson and Brad Owners, owners

  • grey brick and glass square house with a wall of windows

    Award for Restoration Commercial

    1241 Cave Street, Modernist, 1973, Russel Forester, architect

    Cornerstone Communities, The Cove Equity Group LLC, owner

  • modernism house with red post and beam

    Award for Restoration Residential, Post WWII

    807 La Jolla Rancho Road, Post & Beam Modernism, 1961

    Robert and Rebecca Liebner / William Ivans House

    Joan and Gary Gand, owners

2021 Jewel Award Winners 2020 Jewel Award Winners

  • white house with shutters between 2 trees

    Award for Restoration

    7154 Olivetas, “Florence Palmer Spec House #2”

    Ben Reineman and Amy Waterhouse, owners

  • white Spanish style house with landscaping

    Award for Rehabilitation

    7766 Hillside Drive

    Linda Sherman and Jim Lantry, owners

  • pink Tudor style house

    Award for Historic Preservation

    Adriana Diakiw and Hal Meltzer, for their 2018-2019 restoration of 360 Fern Glen

  • grey house with palm tree

    Award for Historic Rehabilitation

    Michelle and Brett Lanuti for their 2017 rehabilitation of 1419 Virginia Way