National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation ( German as: "National Trust Company for Preserving History " ) is an American non-profit organization funded primarily by private membership fees. It was created in 1949 by a statute of the United States Congress into being to support the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods through a range of programs and activities. The activities include the Issue of the journal Preservation.
The mission statement was summarized as follows:
History
In 1947 a meeting of David E. Finley, Jr. was summoned, which resulted in the creation of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings. This group was able to congressional approval (English: congressional charter) to obtain for the National Trust Company to obtain history, a deed, the signing, President Harry S. Truman on October 26, 1949. Finley is derived as the first Chairman of the Board of the National Trust Company for the first 12 years.
Places and buildings of the trust company
There are 29 places that have been awarded by the trust as a place of history. Some places and buildings belong to the trust and are administered on a nonprofit basis and made available to the public. There are also places that are not operated by the trust company, but are managed in close cooperation with other organizations:
- Acoma Sky City, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
- The African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts
- The African Meeting House, Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Carpenter Theatre, Richmond, Virginia
- Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
- Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
- Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Cooper - Molera Adobe, Monterey, California
- Decatur House, Washington, D.C.
- Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina
- Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
- Filoli, Woodside, California
- Gaylord Building, Lockport, Illinois
- Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
- Hotel de Paris, Georgetown, Colorado
- Kykuit, Tarrytown, New York
- Lincoln's Cottage, Washington, D.C.
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City
- 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 Iceland
- Woodlawn Plantation, Alexandria, Virginia
- Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, D.C.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois
- Villa Finale, San Antonio, Texas