America's Most Endangered Places

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America's 11 Most Endangered Places or America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places is a list of places in the United States that the National Trust for Historic Preservation considers the most endangered. It aims to inspire Americans to preserve examples of architectural and cultural heritage that could be "relegated to the dustbins of history" without intervention.[1]

Many of the locations listed by the Trust have been preserved, with there being some argument about how important the Trust's listing has actually been to their preservation.[citation needed] However, there have been notable losses, such as 2 Columbus Circle, which underwent significant renovations, and the original Guthrie Theater, demolition of which was completed in early 2007.

First released in 1987, the number of sites included on the list has varied, with the most recent lists settling on 11.

2021 Places[]

On June 3, 2021, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:[2]

  • Selma to Montgomery March Camp Sites, Selma, Alabama
  • Trujillo Adobe, Riverside, California
  • Summit Tunnels 6 & 7 and Summit Camp Site, Truckee, California
  • Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home, Camilla, Georgia
  • Morningstar Tabernacle No.88 Order of Moses Cemetery and Hall, Cabin John, Maryland
  • Boston Harbor Islands, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Sarah E. Ray House, Detroit, Michigan
  • The Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, Mississippi
  • Threatt Filling Station and Family Farm, Luther, Oklahoma
  • Oljato Trading Post, San Juan County, Utah
  • Pine Grove Elementary School, Cumberland, Virginia

2020 places[]

On September 24, 2020, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:[3]

  • Alazan-Apache Courts, San Antonio, Texas
  • Hall of Waters, Excelsior Springs, Missouri
  • Harada House, Riverside, California
  • National Negro Opera Company House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Ponce Historic Zone, Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • Rassawek, Columbia, Virginia
  • Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, Chicago, Illinois
  • Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi
  • Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site, Berkeley, California
  • Yates Memorial Hospital, Ketchikan, Alaska

2019 places[]

On May 30, 2019, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:[4]

2018 places[]

In June 2018, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places, along with 1 extra site on 'watch status':[6]

2017 places[]

For 2017, the National Trust for Historic Preservation marked the 30th anniversary of the "America's Most Endangered Places" program by releasing a list of 11 "Success Stories"—sites that were named to the "Most Endangered" list that were the focus of successful preservation efforts:[7]

2016 places[]

In June 2016, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places:[8]

2015 places[]

The June 2015 announced places are:[10]

2014 places[]

In June 2014, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be:

2013 places[]

In June 2013, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be:

  • Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland, Maine
  • Astrodome, Houston, Texas (added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014)
  • Chinatown House, Rancho Cucamonga, California
  • Gay Head Lighthouse, Aquinnah, Massachusetts
  • Historic Rural Schoolhouses of Montana (statewide)
  • James River, James City County, Virginia
  • Kake Cannery, Kake, Alaska
  • Mountain View Black Officers' Club, Fort Huachuca, Arizona
  • San Jose Church, Old San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Village of Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Worldport Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York (subsequently demolished)

2012 places[]

In June 2012, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be:

  • Bridges of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Village, California
  • Ellis Island hospital complex, New York Harbor, New York and New Jersey
  • Historic U.S. post office buildings (nationwide)
  • Joe Frazier's Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013)
  • , Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Princeton Battlefield, Princeton, New Jersey
  • Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles, California
  • Texas courthouses, Texas (statewide)
  • Elkhorn Ranch, Billings County, North Dakota
  • Village of Zoar, Ohio

2011 places[]

2010 places[]

  • America's State Parks & State-Owned Historic Sites
  • Black Mountain, Kentucky
  • Hinchliffe Stadium, Paterson, New Jersey
  • Industrial Arts Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Juana Briones House, Palo Alto, California (demolished in 2011)
  • Merritt Parkway, Fairfield County, Connecticut
  • Metropolitan AME Church, Washington, D.C.
  • Pågat, Guam
  • Saugatuck Dunes, Laketown Township, Allegan County, Michigan
  • Threefoot Building, Meridian, Mississippi
  • Wilderness Battlefield, Spotsylvania County and Orange County, Virginia

2009 places[]

  • Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California
  • Miami Marine Stadium, Miami, Florida
  • Mount Taylor, Grants, New Mexico
  • Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois
  • Dorchester Academy, Midway, Georgia
  • The Manhattan Project's Enola Gay Hangar at Wendover Air Force Base, Utah
  • Ames Shovel Shops, Easton, Massachusetts
  • Human Services Center, Yankton, South Dakota
  • Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, New Hampshire & Kittery, Maine (original closed and demolished in 2012; new bridge opened on same site in 2013)
  • Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston, Texas
  • Lana'i City, Maui, Hawaii

2008 places[]

2007 places[]

The 2007 places named to the list were:[11]

  • Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront, New York, New York (from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park to Greenpoint Terminal Market site)[12]
  • El Camino Real Historic Trail, New Mexico
  • H.H. Richardson House, Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Hialeah Park Race Course, Hialeah, Florida
  • Historic Places in Transmission Line Corridors
  • Historic Route 66 Motels, Illinois to California
  • Historic Structures in Mark Twain National Forest, 29 counties in Missouri
  • Minidoka Internment Camp, Hunt, Idaho
  • Philip Simmons Workshop and Home, Charleston, South Carolina
  • Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado
  • Stewart's Point Rancheria, Sonoma County, California

2006 places[]

2005 places[]

  • Daniel Webster Farm, Franklin, New Hampshire
  • The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia
  • Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Belleair, Florida (largely demolished in 2015)
  • Camp Security, York County, Pennsylvania
  • Eleutherian College, Madison, Indiana
  • Ennis-Brown House, Los Angeles, California
  • Finca Vigía: Ernest Hemingway House, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba
  • Historic Buildings of Downtown Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
  • Historic Catholic Churches of Greater Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
  • King Island, Alaska
  • National Landscape Conservation System, Western States

2004 places[]

2003 places[]

2002 places[]

  • Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks, Statewide Maryland
  • Gold Dome Bank, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Hackensack Water Works, Oradell, New Jersey
  • Historic Bridges of Indiana, Statewide, Indiana
  • Kw'st'an Sacred Sites at Indian Pass, Indian Pass, California
  • Missouri River Cultural and Sacred Sites, Midwestern States, MO, MT, KS, NE, ND, SD
  • Pompey's Pillar, Billings, Montana
  • Rosenwald Schools, Southern and Southwestern States, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, LA, AL, MS, TX, AR, NM, OK
  • St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.
  • Teardowns in Historic Neighborhoods, Nationwide

2001 places[]

  • Bok Kai Temple, Marysville, California
  • Carter G. Woodson House, Washington, D.C.
  • CIGNA Campus, Bloomfield, Connecticut
  • Ford Island at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Historic American Movie Theaters, Nationwide
  • Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia
  • Los Caminos del Rio Heritage Corridor, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas
  • Miller-Purdue Barn, Upland, Indiana
  • Prairie Churches of North Dakota, Statewide North Dakota
  • Stevens Creek Settlements, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Telluride Valley Floor, Telluride, Colorado

2000 places[]

1999 places[]

The 1999 list was:[11]

  • "The Corner of Main and Main" (nationwide)
  • Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California
  • Country Estates of River Road, Louisville, Kentucky
  • "Four National Historic Landmark Hospitals" in New York (statewide) — specifically, the Utica State Hospital, Hudson River State Hospital, former Buffalo State Hospital, and New York State Inebriate Asylum[13]
  • Hulett Ore Unloaders, Whiskey Island, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • Pullman Historic District, Chicago, Illinois
  • at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska
  • San Diego Arts & Warehouse District, San Diego, California
  • Traveler's Rest, Missoula County, Montana
  • West Side of Downtown Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland

1998 places[]

The 1998 list was:[11]

  • Black Hawk and Central City, Colorado
  • Cannery Row, Monterey, California
  • Chancellorsville Battlefield, Fredericksburg, Virginia
  • Governors Island, New York, New York
  • Great Bowdoin Mill, Topsham, Maine
  • Historic Courthouses of Texas, Texas (statewide)
  • Historically Black Colleges & Universities (Southern states: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi)
  • Mapes Hotel, Reno, Nevada (subsequently demolished)
  • Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
  • Michigan's Historic Lighthouses, exemplified by DeTour Reef Light, Michigan (statewide)
  • Monocacy Aqueduct, Frederick County, Maryland

1997 places[]

The 1997 list was:[11]

1996 places[]

The 1996 list was:[11]

  • Adobe Churches of New Mexico, Statewide New Mexico
  • East Broad Top Railroad, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania
  • East End Historic District, Newburgh, New York
  • Harry S. Truman Historic District, Independence, Missouri
  • Historic Black Churches of the South, Southern States, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, LA, AL, MS
  • Historic Structures in Glacier National Park, Glacier National Park, Montana
  • Knight Foundry, Sutter Creek, California
  • Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Petoskey, Petoskey, Michigan
  • Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood, Maryland
  • Uptown Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
  • Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel, New Castle, New Hampshire

1995 places[]

The 1995 list was:[11]

1994 places[]

The 1994 list was:[11]

1993 places[]

The 1993 list was:[11]

1992 places[]

The 1992 list was:[11]

1991 places[]

The 1991 list was:[11]

  • Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland
  • Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia
  • Franklin Post Office, Franklin, Tennessee
  • Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Kennecott Mines, Kennecott, Alaska
  • Montpelier, Orange, Virginia
  • Penn School, Frogmore, South Carolina
  • South Pasadena, California
  • Southeast Light, Block Island, Rhode Island
  • Tiger Stadium, Detroit, Michigan
  • Walden Pond and Woods, Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts

1990 places[]

The 1990 list was:[11]

  • Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland
  • Columbus Landing Site, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Deadwood Historic District, Deadwood, South Dakota
  • Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia
  • Kennecott Mines, Kennecott, Alaska
  • Penn School, Frogmore, South Carolina
  • Roycroft Inn and Campus, East Aurora, New York
  • South Pasadena, California
  • Southeast Light, Block Island, Rhode Island
  • Walden Pond and Woods, Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts
  • West Mesa Petroglyphs, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1989 places[]

The 1989 list was:[11]

  • Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland
  • Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
  • Columbus Landing Site, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Deadwood Historic District, Deadwood, South Dakota
  • Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia
  • Old Deerfield Historic District, Deerfield, Massachusetts
  • Old Kaskaskia Village, Kaskaskia, Illinois
  • Roycroft Inn and Campus, East Aurora, New York
  • South Pasadena, California
  • Vieux Carre Historic District, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • West Mesa Petroglyphs, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1988 places[]

The 1988 list was:[11]

  • Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland
  • Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
  • Columbus Landing Site, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Custer Battlefield National Monument & Reno-Benteen Battlefield Memorial, Montana
  • Manassas National Battlefield Historic District, Manassas, Virginia
  • Old Deerfield Historic District, Deerfield, Massachusetts
  • Old Kaskaskia Village, Kaskaskia, Illinois
  • Snee Farm, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
  • Vieux Carre Historic District, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Waterford Historic District, Waterford, Virginia
  • West Mesa Petroglyphs, Albuquerque, New Mexico

References[]

  1. ^ Hetter, Katia (2018-06-26). "America's 11 most endangered historic places". CNN Travel. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  2. ^ "Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites". AP NEWS. 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  3. ^ Scott, Chad (2020-09-24). "National Trust For Historic Preservation Reveals Annual List Of America's 11 Most Endandgered Historic Places". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  4. ^ Thompson, Julia. "These are the 11 most-endangered historic places in the US". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  5. ^ The Excelsior Club
  6. ^ [1], National Trust for Historic Preservation.
  7. ^ Historic Boston Theaters Named To List of “America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” Success Stories (press release),
  8. ^ 11 Most Endangered Places 2016, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
  9. ^ Haas, Kimberly (28 February 2020). ""Hope and Despair Surround Philly's African-American Landmarks,"". Hidden City. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Announcing America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2015". National Trust for Historic Preservation. June 23, 2015.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places—Past Listings, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
  12. ^ Brooklyn Waterfront Called Endangered Site, New York Times (June 14, 2007).
  13. ^ [A look at New York's endangered historic places], Associated Press (June 6, 2012).

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