Helping people protect, enhance, and enjoy the places that matter to them.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Headquarters for the National Trust for
Historic Preservation in Washington, DC.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership,
education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic
places and revitalize our communities.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit
membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and
revitalizing America's communities. Recipient of the National
Humanities Medal, the Trust was founded in 1949 and provides
leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to protect the
irreplaceable places that tell America’s story. Staff at the
Washington, DC, headquarters, six regional offices and 29 historic
sites work with the Trust’s 270,000 members and thousands of
preservation groups in all 50 states.
The need for the National Trust for Historic Preservation has
increased since its founding in 1949. When historic buildings and
neighborhoods are torn down or allowed to deteriorate, a part of our
past disappears forever. When that happens, we lose history that helps
us know who we are, and we lose opportunities to live and work in the
kinds of interesting and attractive surroundings that older buildings
can provide.
