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2007 Recipient of the Holland Award Cullen Chambers has earned respect and admiration throughout the lighthouse preservation community in the course of a preservation career that has included three difficult restoration projects interspersed with much-valued advice and assistance to lighthouse groups across the United States. Cullen's accomplishments included leadership of restorations at Key West Lighthouse from 1987 through 1989, St. Augustine Lighthouse from 1989 through 1994 and Tybee Island Lighthouse from 1994 through today. Together, those efforts represent more than $3,000,000 worth of restoration at nationally historic sites. Included in that total is work not just on the towers but on the keeper's dwelling and four historic support structures at Key West, the keeper's dwelling at St. Augustine and the keeper's and assistant keepers' dwellings along with three support structures at Tybee Island -- all while supervising day-to-day operations and developing exhibitry, lecture series, membership expansion programs, fundraising efforts and publicity. In addition, Cullen has represented the United States at international lighthouse seminars, has written -- as a volunteer -- historic condition reports for 11 lighthouses (and counting) from Florida to Oregon, has undertaken several lens projects and was a volunteer advisor to the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association during development of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act from 1997 through 2000. He also was instrumental in founding the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee and co-authored its position paper on "The Future of Historic Optic Preservation Policy." Quite literally, thousands of visitors have benefited from Cullen's work on lighthouses and light stations; at Tybee Island alone, annual visitation has grown from 50,000 to more than 120,000 guests. He has been a friend to lighthouse preservationists and organizations across America, and this Holland Award testifies to the respect he commands from all in the lighthouse movement. |
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