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  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
November 12, 2020 at 4:50 PM

The Battle for Rassawek

  Plus, get an update on historic places that have been saved, restored, or lost in 2020. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Rassawek and the Monacan Indian Nation’s Fight to…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
November 5, 2020 at 5:44 PM

See the Winners of the 2020 National Preservation Awards

  Plus, take a virtual road trip to neighborhoods around the country that celebrate Black excellence. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Community Spirit: The Winners of the …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 31, 2020 at 12:51 PM

What’s the scariest historic hotel in America?

Four historic hotels with haunted histories. Which one is the scariest?   Happy Halloween, history lovers! No tricks...but we do have a fun treat, courtesy of our fiendish friends at Historic Hotels of America: four haunted hotels, each with a particul…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 29, 2020 at 3:17 PM

The Remarkable Story of Riverside, California’s Harada House

   Plus, register for a post-election webinar to discuss the preservation community’s most pressing policy issues. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate “You Can Throw Me in the…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 28, 2020 at 4:52 PM

Did you miss this opportunity?

Our birthday match officially ends today. MATCH MY BIRTHDAY GIFT I just wanted to resend this email in case you overlooked it. We recently celebrated 71 years of saving America’s historic places, and we offered a birthday fundraising opportunity to have you…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 27, 2020 at 7:27 PM

Birthday match extended for 48 hours!

Another chance to participate MATCH MY BIRTHDAY GIFT This week, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been celebrating its 71st birthday. For seven decades and counting, the National Trust has worked hard to save historically significant a…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 27, 2020 at 12:18 AM

Birthday match ends soon

We’ve nearly reached our birthday goal MATCH MY BIRTHDAY GIFT Dear Friend, Thank you for celebrating our 71st birthday with us! We’re able to connect Americans to our past and to one another thanks to the commitment of people like you, and we are gra…
  Lynn English, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 23, 2020 at 7:09 PM

Let’s Celebrate 71 Years!

Will you help us celebrate our 71st birthday? SIGN OUR BIRTHDAY CARD Dear Friend, It's our 71st birthday! The National Trust for Historic Preservation was officially “born” on October 26, 1949. Please join us in celebrating 71 years of saving histori…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 22, 2020 at 1:34 PM

View Two Modernist Masterpieces Side by Side

  Plus, learn how you can join Bob Vila virtually at the National Preservation Awards. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Two Modern Masterpieces: Farnsworth House and The Gl…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 15, 2020 at 1:20 PM

Understanding Jane Jacobs

  Plus, celebrating Native American history with activist Ada Deer. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Understanding Jane Jacobs Roberta Brandes Gratz is well known as the au…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 8, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Four Must-See Historic Bowling Alleys

  Plus, meet one of Congress’ stalwart advocates for historic preservation. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Four Must-See Historic Bowling Alleys Even if you can’t visit t…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 5, 2020 at 7:28 PM

Share your thoughts with us

  (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate As we continue to help save the irreplaceable places that tell the full American story, we here at the National Trust for Historic Preser…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
October 1, 2020 at 2:22 PM

Peek Inside This Stunning Gothic Revival Home

  Plus, learn how we’re telling the full story through places connected to Brown v. Board of Education. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Chicago Couple Restores a Spacious …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 26, 2020 at 4:12 PM

Dreaming of Travel? New Tours Available

    Check out National Trust Tours’ 2021 Tour Guide. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate National Trust Tours Releases 2021 Tour Guide If you have been dreaming of travel—acti…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 24, 2020 at 2:18 PM

These Are the Most Endangered Places in America

  Discover America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2020. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate   Each year, America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places sheds light on …
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 22, 2020 at 7:31 PM

Preservation requires commitment

Become our newest Preservation Partner Dear Friend, Preservation is a never-ending process, one that requires commitment and constant work. Together, we have saved many places all over the country, from bustling city centers to quaint downtowns. From public…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 21, 2020 at 4:26 PM

#TellTheFullStory of Brown v. Board of Education

  Help connect the places associated with this landmark Supreme Court case. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate One of the most significant landmark cases in the history of th…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 17, 2020 at 2:20 PM

14 Must-See Lighthouses Across the United States

  Plus, register today for PastForward Online 2020, October 27-30. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate 14 Must-See Lighthouses Around the U.S. Lighthouses tend to pop up in th…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 10, 2020 at 2:19 PM

Explore This Artist’s Grand Vision at a Lush Florida Site

  Plus, discover the places where two civil rights trailblazers made history. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Explore the Legacies of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian On July 17…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
September 3, 2020 at 2:48 PM

How This Lithography Factory Is Transforming a Baltimore Neighborhood

  Plus, how Rosenwald Fellows influenced the pivotal Brown v. Board of Education ruling. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Lithography Factory Undergoes an Industrial Evolut…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 28, 2020 at 6:48 PM

Humanizing Frank Lloyd Wright

  Plus, 7 stunning Guastavino tile vaults from around the country. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate The Photographer Who Humanized Frank Lloyd Wright For more than 20 years…
  Christina Morris, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 25, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Help us preserve women’s stories

Women’s history is American history Dear Friend, Although women represent half the population, countless stories of women leaders are going untold. Without them, we cannot truly know our history. And we lose a singularly powerful opportunity to inspire the …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 20, 2020 at 1:56 PM

Stay Cool with 15 Awesome Movies About Preservation

  Plus, honoring African American history at Oberlin Village. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Stay Cool With 15 Awesome Movies About Preservation We know there’s no substi…
  Christina Morris, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 14, 2020 at 7:16 PM

Celebrate where women made history

An Important Milestone in Women’s History Dear Friend, Fearless suffragists...iconic artists and musicians...dedicated advocates… pioneering entrepreneurs—women have played influential roles in every chapter of America’s history. This month marks the centennial of th…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 13, 2020 at 1:55 PM

Dig into a New Guidebook about Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios

  Plus, support the preservation of Rosenwald Schools. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Dig Deep into the Guidebook on the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios Be an armchai…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 7, 2020 at 2:49 PM

Where Women Made History: Five Trailblazing Black Women

  Discover the stories behind some of the fascinating women and places you’ve helped us identify. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate At the start of 2020, as part of our work…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 6, 2020 at 1:53 PM

Explore the Childhood Home of Playwright August Wilson

  Plus, take a peek inside the restored Haas-Lilienthal House in San Francisco. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate The August Wilson House: An Emblem of Creative Excellence i…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
August 4, 2020 at 3:52 PM

Breaking: Great American Outdoors Act Just Signed Into Law

  Join us in thanking your elected officials for their role in this historic achievement. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Great news! The President just signed into law th…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 30, 2020 at 1:56 PM

10 Ways to Research Your Home’s History

  Plus, announcing the HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate 10 Ways to Research Your Home's History If only walls could talk, rig…
  Lynn English, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 28, 2020 at 7:43 PM

I want you to know

  Saving the places where history happened. To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book. Dear Preservation Partner, History seems to unfold faster and faster every year. The National Trust leads the work of preservation in our …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 28, 2020 at 2:47 PM

We've Found 838 Places. Can You Help Us Reach 1,000?

  Help us reach our goal before the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate At the start of 2020, as part of our work to tell the ful…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 23, 2020 at 2:59 PM

House Passes Historic Public Lands Bill

  Plus, 7 historic civil rights sites exemplifying the fight against racial injustice. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate House Passes Historic Public Lands Bill Yesterday, b…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 17, 2020 at 1:50 PM

A Tale of Two Planners: Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses

  Plus, learn more about the recipients of the 2020 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate A Tale of Two Planners: Jane Jac…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 9, 2020 at 1:51 PM

How This Spacious Gothic Revival Became a Haven for Modern Art

  Plus, new virtual activities just for preservation lovers. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Chicago Couple Restores a Spacious Gothic Revival, Inside and Out Melissa Webe…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
July 2, 2020 at 1:56 PM

Saving a Sustainable Midcentury Home

  Plus, 10 historical fiction books to add to your summer reading list. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Saving a Stylish, Sustainable Midcentury Home The Ball-Paylore Hous…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 30, 2020 at 10:46 PM

Last chance: increase your impact today

Important message inside MATCH MY GIFT   Dear Friend, As we near the end of our fiscal year-end campaign, we are asking our friends and supporters to give now to ensure our preservation priorities move forward at this important time. This is your l…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 30, 2020 at 4:00 PM

Last chance: increase your impact today

Important message inside MATCH MY GIFT   Dear Friend, As we near the end of our fiscal year-end campaign, we are asking our friends and supporters to give now to ensure our preservation priorities move forward at this important time. This is your l…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 29, 2020 at 5:44 PM

One day left to reach our goal

All gifts matched to save places that matter MATCH MY GIFT   Dear Friend, Our fiscal year-end campaign ends tomorrow, and we are short of our $30,000 goal. Can you help us start a new fiscal year strong by joining the National Trust with a generous…
  Elizabeth Bruns, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 26, 2020 at 5:10 PM

Multiply your support for places that tell the full American story

Help us reach our goal by June 30 MATCH MY GIFT   Dear Friend, On June 30, our fiscal year closes at the National Trust. And we need your support to ensure our ability to meet continuing responsibilities in the year ahead.  We are committed to safe…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 25, 2020 at 1:51 PM

Six Historic Sites That Help Make Meaning of Difficult History

  Plus, inside the lives of three iconic women. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Racial Injustice, Preservation, and Place: A Juneteenth Reflection Done right, historic pla…
  Paul Edmondson, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 24, 2020 at 8:10 PM

How do we know our story?

Help us begin a new fiscal year strong MATCH MY GIFT “Preservation is a path to narrative—who lived here, what happened here, why is this stone wall here. The questions and the answers they seek continue; for without preservation how do we know our …
  Paul Edmondson, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 23, 2020 at 3:42 PM

Historic places are like a library for a community

We need your help to reach our goal MATCH MY GIFT “Historic places are like a library for a community. They are a repository for all of the stories and memories, differences and commonalities that bind us together. However, unlike the books in a lib…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 19, 2020 at 1:48 PM

Discover a Tiny Kansas Town Settled by Black Homesteaders

  Plus, read the National Trust's statement on Confederate monuments. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Statement on Confederate Monuments We believe it is past time for us,…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 18, 2020 at 7:23 PM

Our Statement on Confederate Monuments

  An important update from the National Trust. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Our Statement on Confederate Monuments The nationwide call for racial justice and equity…
  Paul Edmondson, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 15, 2020 at 6:12 PM

How do we know our story?

Help us begin a new fiscal year strong MATCH MY GIFT “Preservation is a path to narrative—who lived here, what happened here, why is this stone wall here. The questions and the answers they seek continue; for without preservation how do we know our …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 11, 2020 at 5:17 PM

Why We Must #TellTheFullStory

  Current events demand our attention and reflection through the lens of history. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Out of Crisis, an Opportunity Brent Leggs, executive dire…
  Paul Edmondson, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
June 2, 2020 at 8:46 PM

Statement on the Death of George Floyd and the Aftermath

  An update from National Trust President Paul Edmondson. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Dear Preservation Supporter, Like so many others, I have been profoundly dismayed …
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
May 28, 2020 at 1:51 PM

From Defunct to Delightful: An Old Pier’s Transformation

  Plus, a virtual tour of three Modernist historic sites. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate An Old Philadelphia Pier Goes From Defunct to Delightful It’s easy to know where …
  Tom Mayes, National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
May 26, 2020 at 7:16 PM

Imagine the Possibilities

  The chief legal officer at the National Trust contemplates how the virtual world can augment reality (literally) at old places. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Dear Pres…
  National Trust for Historic Preservation · [email protected]
May 21, 2020 at 1:52 PM

The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Isamu Noguchi

  Plus: Frank Lloyd Wright designed these chairs from a surprising material. (To ensure delivery, please add [email protected] to your address book.)     Join Renew Donate Spotlight on Midcentury Artist and Designer Isamu Noguchi This…