NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

The 'National Trust for Historic Preservation' is an American member-supported organization which was founded in 1949 by congressional charter to support preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods through a range of programs and activities.
Its mission statement states:
:"The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education and advocacy to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities."
Each year since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation lists "America's Most Endangered Places" in an effort to protect America's architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. In recent years this list has included:

★ 2 Columbus Circle, New York, New York

★ Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Belleair, Florida

★ Camp Security, York County, Pennsylvania

★ Daniel Webster Farm, Franklin, New Hampshire

★ Eleutherian College, Madison, Indiana

★ Ennis-Brown House, Los Angeles, California

★ Finca Vigía: Ernest Hemingway House, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba

★ Historic Buildings of downtown Detroit, Michigan

★ Historic Catholic Churches of Greater Boston, Massachusetts

★ King Island, Alaska

★ National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), Western States

★ Nine Mile Canyon, Utah

★ President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument Washington DC

★ “The Journey Through Hallowed Ground” Corridor, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania

★ The Doo Wop Motels of Wildwood, NJ

★ Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront

★ State of Vermont

★ Motels of Route 66

Contents

National Trust Historic Sites

Historic Hotels of America

National Trust Community Investment Corporation

See also

External links

National Trust Historic Sites

Twenty eight sites are designated as National Trust Historic Sites. Most are owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operated by other non-profit organizations (e.g., Farnsworth House); some are owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (e.g., Drayton Hall); and some are owned and operated by other non-profit organizations and hold a long-term cooperative agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (e.g., Lower East Side Tenement Museum). These sites currently include:

★ Acoma Sky City, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

★ The African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts

★ The African Meeting House, Nantucket, Massachusetts

★ Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia

★ Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

★ Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

★ Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

★ Cooper-Molera Adobe, Monterey, California

★ Decatur House, Washington, DC

★ Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina

★ Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

★ Filoli, Woodside, California

★ Gaylord Building, Lockport, Illinois

★ Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut

★ Kykuit, Tarrytown, New York

★ Lincoln Cottage, Washington, DC

★ Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, New York

★ Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, New York

★ James Madison's Montpelier, Orange, Virginia

★ Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia

★ Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, Virginia

★ Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois

★ Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana

★ Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island

★ Woodlawn Plantation, Alexandria, Virginia

★ Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, DC

★ Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois

★ Villa Finale, San Antonio, Texas

Historic Hotels of America

The National Trust has also compiled a list of hotels registered as "Historic Hotels of America" because they are at least 50 years old and have faithfully maintained their historic character and ambience.

National Trust Community Investment Corporation

NTCIC, the for-profit subsidiary of the National Trust, makes equity investments in real estate projects that qualify for federal historic tax credits and when available, state historic and New Markets Tax Credits.

See also

★ Other worldwide National Trusts

★ Partners for Sacred Places

External links

★ National Trust for Historic Preservation

★ National Trust for Historic Preservation Historic Hotels of America

★ National Trust Community Investment Corporation

★ ''Preservation'' Magazine Online Archive Search the magazine's back issues (2006-1992)

★ ''Preservation News'' Vol. 1 (1961) - Vol. 35 no. 1 (Feb/March 1995). Monthly publication of the Preservation Press of the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States.