Victoria Romanoff

Among many awards of distinction for her contributions to historic preservation, Romanoff received the Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1983; Architectural Fellowship granted by the Ford Foundation - Educational Facilities Laboratories documenting 19th and 20th century storefronts in New York State in 1981); a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship from the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth which funded three months of travel throughout the British Isles documenting, through drawings and photographs, the design materials of 18th and 19th century commercial storefronts in 1980; Two Historic Ithaca Preservation Awards in 2018; The Top 50 Newsmakers of the Last Quarter Century in 1998; and Ithaca's Woman of the Year (with Constance Saltonstall) in 1973. In 2006 Romanoff received a gold award from the American Concrete Institute for excellence in concrete and installation of a 60-foot by 30-foot public outdoor sculpture of a garden turtle entitled "Gaia".

Born in Riga, Latvia, Romanoff spent a large part of her childhood in Displaced Persons camps in Germany during and after World War II. Emigrating to the United States in 1954, she received advanced degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA '61) and from Cornell University, for which she received a full scholarship from the College of Art and Architecture (MFA '64).

Victoria Romanoff (born 1939) is a Latvian-American artist living in central New York. She is known both for her work in the visual arts (sculpture, painting, paper mosaics, illustration, printmaking and set design) as well as for her vast contributions in architectural preservation.