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National Trust for Historic PreservationLatest Stories

Restoring Glory

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announces 35 historic Black churches to receive funding

Pass The Torch

National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Paul W. Edmondson steps down

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Winners’ Circle

Daily digest: Houston’s Orange Show Monument bolstered by preservation grant, Taller Capital wins 2022 MCHAP.emerge Award, and more

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Dome Denial

Task force rebuffs proposal to finance rehabilitation of Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Domes with $19 million in ARPA funding

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New Legacies

The National Trust names 33 historic sites as 2022 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grantees

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Stories To Tell

The National Trust’s 11 Most Endangered list for 2022 includes murals, an internment camp, and a Neutra-designed school

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Making Space

Daily digest: The worker who left a noose at a Meta construction site came forward, major cuts planned for NYC’s culture budget, and more

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Big Plan On Campus

The National Trust announces five grantees of its HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative

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Cutting Back

Daily digest: RIBA will slash more jobs, an endowment to preserve historic Black churches, and more

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What's In A Name?

The Farnsworth House is renamed to honor Edith Farnsworth

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Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Daily digest: A George Floyd memorial debuts in NYC and gets vandalized, Michelangelo’s David is covered in Dubai, and more

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Giving Voice to Place

The Mellon Foundation reveals its inaugural Humanities in Place grantees

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Telling the Full Story

National Trust announces 2021 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grantees

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A Call to Action

Imperiled and overlooked Black historic sites lead the National Trust’s 11 Most Endangered list in 2021

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Heartbreakingly Important

Bill establishing Chicago’s Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ as a National Monument introduced to Senate

a historic office building in Memphis, a Driehouse Foundation award winner this year
Second Callings

The Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards recognizes 2020 pillars of restoration excellence

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The Moment is Now

An online exhibition explores how the National Mall Tidal Basin can be shielded from climate change

a chili restaurant in Washington, D.C., one of the locations targeted by the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites
"Essential Places of Reflection For Our Democracy"

The Weitzman School of Design launches a center for civil rights sites preservation

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