National Trust for Historic Preservation

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The headquarters of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been in the Watergate building complex in Washington since 2013

The National Trust for Historic Preservation (German: "National Trust Company for the Preservation of History") is a US non-profit organization that is mainly financed by private membership fees. It was established by statute of the United States Congress in 1949 to support the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods through a variety of programs and activities. Activities include the publication of the Preservation magazine .

The mission statement was summarized as follows:

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education and advocacy to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities."
"The National Trust for Preserving History provides the leadership, education, and advocacy for preserving American diverse historical sites and revitalizing communities."

The trust has subsidiaries, National Main Street Center and National Trust Community Investment Corporation, and affiliates Historic Hotels of America , National Trust Insurance Services, and National Trust Tours .

history

The National Trust for Historic Preservation headquarters until 2013, was in the Andrew Mellon Building in Dupont Circle
Woodlawn Plantation was purchased as the first historic site in 1957

In 1947 a meeting was convened by David E. Finley, Jr. , which resulted in the creation of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings . This group was able to obtain congressional charter for the National Trust Company for the Preservation of History, a charter signed by President Harry S. Truman on October 26, 1949. Finley serves as the first chairman of the board of directors of the National Trust Company for the first 12 years.

In 1957, Woodlawn Plantation was purchased as the first historic site. Over the next decade, the National Trust grew to become the leading national organization in the field of heritage preservation. They began working with citizens and city planners on legislative issues, including federal, state, and local level ordinances on historic preservation. National Trust staff also traveled to parts of the country to advise local communities on conservation projects. In 1966, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act , an important law for the heritage conservation movement. The law also provided federal funds to support the work of the National Trust. Government funding ended in 1996 when the National Trust was fully privately funded.

After the National Historic Preservation Act was passed , the National Trust expanded its mandate beyond the management of historic sites. In 1969, the National Trust established the Preservation Services Fund to provide financial support to local conservation projects. In 1971 the National Trust opened its first branch in San Francisco. As the organization grew, the National Trust expanded its work which consisted of programs, education, and advocacy for legal issues related to monuments. In 1980 the National Trust initiated the National Main Street Center , which specialized in the revitalization of historic business districts and has since become a subsidiary.

From 2010 to 2018, longtime president of the organization Stephanie Meeks steered the work of the National Trust towards a more targeted, cause-oriented approach and conducted more robust contact with local conservationists. As part of this new approach, the National Trust launched the National Treasures portfolio in 2011 , which identifies sites at particular risk and develops strategies to conserve them. To promote the rescue of endangered historical sites, the annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historical Places was published as early as 1988 .

In 2013, the National Trust headquarters moved from the Andrew Mellon Building to the historic Watergate office complex. Meeks said in a statement on the move: "The choice of Watergate shows our continued commitment to recognizing and protecting important places from every era in American history, including the recent past."

job

In January 2020, the National Trust said it had around 300,000 members and supporters.

In addition to running campaigns, the National Trust provides a growing educational resource through the Preservation Leadership Forum, which offers articles, magazines, case studies, conferences, and training courses. The National Trust publishes the quarterly Preservation Magazine and online stories.

Current work of the National Trust is focused on building groups around through an adapted reuse of historic sites, preserving and enhancing cultural diversity by protecting sites of cultural importance, advocating better management of historic sites on public land, and leading innovation in the management of historic sites.

Places and buildings of the trust company

The National Trust works on historical sites that are owned and operated by the National Trust (stewardship sites), as well as sites that are owned by the National Trust but are not operated by it (co-stewardships) with contractually tied partner companies and locations that are neither owned nor operated by the National Trust, but are involved in the work through cooperation agreements.

Acoma Pueblo
Cliveden
Farnsworth House
Hotel de Paris

In 2017 there were 27 locations that were designated as Historic Sites by the trust company .

Some places and buildings where the National Trust is active:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dwight Young: Finley Was There: Recalling an arts leader . In: Preservation , November / December 2006, p. 64. 
  2. ^ National Trust for Historic Preservation: Historic Sites ; accessed June 28, 2017.

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