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National Trust for Historic PreservationLatest Stories

a skatepark with a large mural and colorful post-modernist building in the background
Stories To Tell

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

a stage in a nyc park
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

exterior view of a historic library building at an hbcu, one awarded under the Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative
Big Plan On Campus

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

The riba headquarters, a blocky art deco office cube
Cutting Back

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

The edith farnsworth house, two white slabs sandwiching a glass room
What's In A Name?

The Farnsworth House is renamed to honor Edith Farnsworth

Michelangelo's David in italy
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

historical marker for john coltrane home on long island, one of the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program grantees
Giving Voice to Place

The Mellon Foundation reveals its inaugural Humanities in Place grantees

exterior of historic church in chicago, awarded funding by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Telling the Full Story

National Trust announces 2021 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grantees

facade of an older motel with a historic plaque
A Call to Action

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

a historic church in Chicago
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

illustration of a reimagined tidal basin
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

colorful mural in a hotel restaurant
Mayday, Mayday

SOM’s Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati among America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

inside the ruins of a natatorium
Going With The Flow

Jorge Otero-Pailos’s Watershed Moment opens as the first contemporary art installation at the historic Lyndhurst estate

Photo of a microphone on an empty stage, of the type nina simone would use
In Brief

Nina Simone’s childhood home secures a protective easement

Photo of Founders Library at Howard University
Back to School

Preservation groups launch initiative for campus architecture at HBCUs

evelyn gibson lowery mural, atlanta
Places to See, Stories to Tell

National Trust announces 2020 grantees of African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

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