PAWTUCKET — The Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission will honor outstanding preservation projects of 2009 and the people who made them happen at a ceremony Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Hope Artiste Village.

The winners of the Rhody Awards are:

•Architect Frederick Love, who was instrumental in creating historic zoning in Pawtucket in 1989 and has been chairman of the city’s Historic District Commission for the past 20 years.

•John B. Brown III for his efforts to protect places important to the history and living traditions of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. For nearly 30 years, Brown, one of the nation’s first Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, has served as the primary liaison to archaeologists.

•Robert E. Donnell, the fourth generation to lead a 109-year-old family firm doing exterior and interior restoration projects. The work of E.F. O’Donnell & Sons includes Trinity Church in Newport, Kingston Free Library and the First Baptist Church and John Brown House in Providence.

•The Deininger family for the restoration of the 1873 Seven Oaks in Bristol, one of the finest Gothic Revival houses in Rhode Island, which had been gutted in the 1980s for an unfinished condominium project.

•Nick Oldenberg and Paul Carter for their restoration of the 1819 Joseph Cooke House in Providence. The large Federal-era home had been divided into apartments when Oldenberg and Carter bought the building in 2005.

•Quentin and Beatrice Sanford Sr. and their children Quentin Sanford Jr. and Bethany Smith, who restored the Star Diner on Newport Avenue in East Providence, saving it from the scrap heap.

•Providence homeowner Jessica Jennings, the West Broadway Neighborhood Association, City Councilman John J. Lombardi, state Rep. Stephen M. Costantino and state Sen. Paul V. Jabour for advocating legislation that protects the visual integrity of historic districts in the installation of gas meters and regulators.

•The Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services for implementing a plan to safeguard heritage collections in the event of a disaster. The steering committee for the plan, entitled Protecting the Past-RI, coordinated workshops for 104 institutions and sites across the state, encouraging organizations to safeguard books, documents, maps, photographs, decorative arts and artifacts.

•The Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the Public Archaeology Laboratory, and the Cranston Planning Department for the study, recovery, and reburial of the remains of 71 individuals from the old State Farm Cemetery in Cranston.

•The Newport Restoration Foundation for its recovery and painstaking restoration of the 18th-century Almy-Cory House in Portsmouth. To save the building from demolition, the NRF hired Architectural Preservation Group to take the building apart, label every piece, and move it for reassembly at Prescott Farm on West Main Road.

•The Portsmouth Abbey School for the restoration of the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great, a mid-20th-century masterpiece by modernist architect Pietro Belluschi that had not stood up to the harsh coastal climate since it was built in the early 1960s. The $4-million restoration included replacement of four miles of gold wire in a sculpture by abstract expressionist Richard Lippold, and the restoration of 4,224 pieces of stained glass windows.

•The City of Providence for rehabilitation of the Fox Point Bathhouse for use as a school library and community meeting place, and for the energy-efficient rehabilitation of the Nathan Bishop Middle School.

• The Rumford Center in East Providence, a $50-million rehabilitation involving developers PK Rumford, the architectural firm of Prellwitz Chilinski Associates, New England Construction, and Kirkbrae Construction. They recycled the landmark 1856 Rumford Chemical Works into housing and commercial space.

•Aquidneck Mill at the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, built in 1831, one of the earliest industrial facilities on the city’s waterfront. The mill had fallen into disrepair in recent years until the school bought it and worked with Newport Collaborative Architects to restore it for instructional and library use and commercial space.

•Greystone Lofts in North Providence. Beginning in 2005, Urban Smart Growth worked with architects of Annino Inc. and Metric Construction to renovate the mill building into 150 residential units.

•The Hampton Inn and Suites on Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, which opened as a bank building in 1920s and later served as a Franciscan chapel. The Oct. 29 awards ceremony will run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the restored Hope Webbing industrial complex at 1005 Main St. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

To buy a ticket or request more information, call (401) 272-5101 or visit the Preserve Rhode Island Web site at http://www.preserveri.org