2006 Winner-Adolph Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America
Co-edited by Alan Lessoff and Christof Mauch

For its international collaboration as well as its introduction of an important architect to the national canon, this book should serve as a model for future scholarship in the field of architecture in the United States.

2004 Winner--Thomas Jeckyll Architect and Designer, 1827-1881
by Susan W. Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott
Yale University Press and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture

For a comprehensive, lucidly written exhibition catalogue that is a pioneering study which illuminates the career of this brilliant and unjustly forgotten Aesthetic Movement designer.
 

2003 Winner--American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

by Andrew Wilton and Timothy Barringer  

For an exhibition catalogue that brings a refreshing transatlantic approach to its subject, which it treats with intelligence, grace, and admirable clarity.

2002 Winner--Thomas Eakins

by Darrel Sewell, et. al

2001 Winner--Herkomer: A Victorian Artist

by Lee MacCormick Edwards

2000 Winner--E.W. Godwin:Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer

edited by Susan Weber Soros

1999 Winner--The Painted Sketch:
American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880
by Eleanor Jones Harvey

1998 Winner--Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson
by James F. O'Gorman

1997--No award was given.

1996 Winner--Dressed for the Photographer:
Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900
by Joan Severa

1995 Winner--Herter Brothers:
Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age
by Katherine S. Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and  Catherine Hoover Voorsanger

1994 Winner--The Arts and Crafts Movement in America: Living the Good Life

edited by Kenneth R. Trapp

1993 Winner--Death in the Dining Room
and Other Tales of Victorian Culture
by Kenneth L. Ames

1992 Winner--The Golden Age of American Gardens
edited by Mac Griswold, Eleanor Weller, and Helen R. Rollins

1991 Winner--At Home: The American Family, 1750-1870
by Elizabeth Donaghy Garrett

1990 Winner--A Vision of Britain
by HRH, The Prince of Wales

1989 Winner--Margot Gayle:

for a lifetime of writings in support of preservation, 19th century outdoor sculpture and cast iron buildings.
 

Titles by Ms. Gayle include:

Cast-Iron Architecture in America:
The Significance of James Bogardus

Cast-Iron Architecture in New York:
A Photographic Survey

Metals in America's Historic Buildings:
Uses and Preservation Treatments