[Music] this year's Edina Heritage Award winner isn't a historic property it's a website congratulations thank house.com was recognized with the 2024 award the home history website was designed by Edina native Amanda zelki and her husband David Decker and was launched in 2022 the free platform allows anyone to discover and document the history of homes across the country well we're super grateful for the award it's just been an incredible opportunity to help preserve the history of all the homes right so the big idea behind our platform is to be able to answer what's the story with that house and capture the real moments that make a house a home so we just love the idea of everyone coming together and crowdsourcing home history it's the real magic when everyone is contributing that together the website has more than 24,000 us homes in its database including about 600 in Idina for the homes in Idina house novel sourced public data from the Minnesota Historical Society henpen County History Museum and Minneapolis Star Tribune the website is open for anyone to upload their own information on any home for free and with ease house novel offers a free history research guide but also has optional paid features if a homeowner wants help researching their property the commission presents the heritage award annually during preservation month to Showcase local historical preservation activity