Amber Anderson and Sarah Sanders, both members of the MSHP class of 2015, garnered an Honorable Mention award for their entry in the 2015 Holland Prize, an annual competition open to both students and professionals that recognizes the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic site, structure, or landscape prepared to the standards and guidelines of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). The prize is intended to increase awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of historic resources throughout the United States while adding to the permanent HABS, HAER, and HALS collection at the Library of Congress, and to encourage the submission of drawings among professionals and students. By requiring only a single sheet, the competition challenges the delineator to capture the essence of the site through the presentation of key features that reflect its significance.
Anderson and Sanders submitted documentation drawings of the ruins of Pon Pon Chapel, an eighteenth-century chapel of ease located in Colleton County near Jacksonboro, South Carolina. This chapel and its graveyard provide a link to early eighteenth-century Anglican activity and the proliferation of chapels of ease through the South Carolina Lowcountry that served the religions needs of the inhabitants of the region’s plantation hinterlands. This project grew out of a documentation assignment in Professor Amalia Leifeste’s Preservation Studio course.