Robert Esshaki and Chris Thomas of Rudy’s Prime Steakhouse in Clarkston were presented with a Building Award by the Michigan Historic Preservation Network Awards at a ceremony held on May 16, at Lake Superior State University.

The award is given annually to an outstanding building preservation project completed within the past three years. The project may be restoration or rehabilitation, must include exterior rehabilitation work and may also involve interior work.

Built in 1915 as a one-story parapeted native stone building on the West Side of South Main Street, it was originally the Voorheis Ford Service Auto Supply Company.

Rudy Schwartz operated a grocery and meat market at several locations beginning in 1933 at the southwest corner of South Main and Washington Streets. He eventuall

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