Healdsburg’s Historic Building Preservation Award Winners

Each year, the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society hands out a batch of “historic preservation awards” to people in town who’ve done an especially good job sprucing up any iconic old buildings they own, in a way that both honors the original look and saves the structure from wasting away. A few weeks ago, the society announced our two local winners for 2024. This year’s residential-building award goes to Larry Schuster and Dee Grohmann for their restoration of the stately white “Bailey/Andrews House” along Highway 128 out in Alexander Valley, across from the Medlock Ames tasting room and next door to a Northern Sonoma County Fire District station. It’s an “Italianate” style home built nearly 150 years ago, museum officials say. And the commercial-building award goes to Summer Sebastiani and Todd Fernandez for their restoration of the former Powell Avenue Market near the high school, at Powell and Rose. Around a decade ago, the couple opened a new market called Summer’s Market & Deli inside the old “stepped-front” Powell’s building from 1947. (Source: Healdsburg Museum via Facebook & Summer’s Market & Deli)