Preservation Magazine

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization that relies on private funding to protect historic sites across the United States. We encourage Americans to preserve the locations where significant events took place. Our mission links us to the rich tapestry of our diverse histories, uniting us as a multicultural nation. We aim to change communities from just living spaces into beloved places. As the foremost advocate for preservation, we inspire individuals to take action in saving these important sites.

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Rising from the Ashes: Montpelier Archaeology Forges New Path After Fire

3 weeks ago | savingplaces.org | Nathalie Alonso

Around 5 p.m. on April 8, 2024, an electrical fire tore through the archaeology office and adjacent lab at Montpelier, the Virginia plantation that once belonged to United States President James Madison and a National Trust Historic Site.
A Life in Service to Preservation

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Tom Butt

A reflection from Tom Butt, the 2024 reciepient of the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award.
87 Years of Black Women's Leadership: The Omaha Star Newspaper

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Shayla Martin

Since 1938, women have been at the helm of Nebraska’s only Black-owned newspaper, The Omaha Star. The legacy began with founder Mildred Brown, a trailblazing journalist and publisher dedicated to sharing positive news to and about the Black community in Omaha. There were regular features like the family of the week, new business openings, and community event coverage, particularly events at local churches.
Facing Increasingly Severe Flooding, Jamestown Archaeologists Are Saving What They Can

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Malea Martin

photo by: Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Just one week after it was named to the National Trust’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list in 2022, Jamestown experienced one of its worst flooding episodes in recent history. “We had a Nor’easter off the coast that didn’t even drop any rain on us, but it raised the water levels in the James River to the point that we had two feet of water over average levels,” said Sean Romo, director of archaeology at Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.
Whatever It Takes: Five Artists Who Used Unconventional Materials to Create Art in Their Homes

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Margaret Littman

Beer cans and bottles, driftwood and wire, limestone as logs, carved architecture are just a few of the surprising materials used at some of the newest Historic Artists' Homes and Studios. In January 2025, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) program announced its newest class of affiliate members—its largest single class to date. These 19 sites celebrate artist-built environments where artists both lived and worked.
Resource List: AI and Historic Preservation

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Priya Chhaya |Ethan Mollick

In the last year, tools connected to artificial intelligence (AI) have claimed to make every industry from healthcare to the creative arts more efficient. But what about historic preservation? On March 7, Preservation Leadership Forum (the professional membership program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation) hosted an introductory webinar about AI and its uses in preservation practice.
Printmaking, Beading, and Weaving: A New Program Celebrates Women Artists of East Hampton

1 month ago | savingplaces.org | Nathalie Alonso

In 1884, artist couple Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran built a summer house in East Hampton, New York, on the East End of Long Island. Designed in the Romantic Victorian cottage style, the 10-room home doubled as a shared studio for both Thomas, renowned for his landscape paintings of the American West, and Mary, a groundbreaking etcher and printmaker.
James Weldon Johnson's Writing Cabin Prepares for Spring

2 months ago | savingplaces.org | Shayla Martin

"Hanging by a Thread: The Retreat of James Weldon Johnson." It was this stark title of an article in Preservation Massachusetts that caught Jill Rosenberg Jones’ attention after googling the phrase “James Weldon Johnson Great Barrington,” five words that came to her while daydreaming about purchasing a country home.
Black Modernism: Reinventing Space, Rewriting History

2 months ago | savingplaces.org | Shayla Martin

Part 2 of a Conversation with Dr. Charles L. Davis II Often when Modernism is discussed within architecture and architectural history, the focus is on structural design. But when it comes to Black Modernism, inventive functionality and usage of the space is just as important as its design elements. In this second conversation about Conserving Black Modernism (CBM), the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund’s Editorial Fellow Shayla Martin interviews CBM Fellow Dr. Charles L.
Flash Back: Torso, Blanqui Monument, ca. 1906, by Aristide Maillol

2 months ago | savingplaces.org | Meghan Drueding

Abstract and figurative sculptures grace Kykuit’s walled inner garden, designed circa 1907–13 by Beaux-Arts architect William Welles Bosworth. Once the residence of the Rockefeller family and now a National Trust Historic Site preserved and operated by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tarrytown, New York, property was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in the early 1990s. About 40 years earlier, Nelson A. Rockefeller purchased the Aristide Maillol sculpture shown in this photo.