 In 1979, for "Vestiges of the Venerable City", he received the Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission Preservation Award and, in the same year, the Kentucky Heritage Commission's Preservation Professional Award.In 1986, the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation presented him its John Wesley Hunt Award.In addition to the original Moses Jones hall and parlor dwelling, on the grounds of Warwick, Lancaster built several architectural follies of his own design—an eighteenth-century tea pavilion, a guest-house replicating the first-century A.D. Tower of the Winds, and an Arts and Crafts style art gallery.