Preservation
Partners
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Introduction
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
is a privately-funded, non-profit organization that provides leadership,
education and advocacy to save our Nation's diverse historic places
and revitalize our communities.
In the late 1940s, leaders of the growing
American preservation movement recognized a need for a national
organization to support and encourage grassroots efforts. A group
of interested citizens began working to establish a National Trust
for Historic Preservation, and their efforts came to fruition
when President Truman signed legislation creating the National
Trust on October 26, 1949.
The founders envisioned an organization
whose primary purpose would be the acquisition and administration
of historic sites. Over time, the National Trust has expanded
its mission to include public outreach. The Preservation Services
Fund was created in 1969 to provide financial assistance to local
preservation projects. To give timely hands-on assistance to local
preservationists, the National Trust opened its first field office
in San Francisco in 1971. Demonstration projects soon followed:
the National Main Street Center, which emphasizes preservation
as a tool for revitalizing traditional business districts, was
established in 1980; Community Partners, which employs a similar
approach in historic residential neighborhoods, began in 1994.
Other special programs have been created to focus on rural preservation
(1979), heritage tourism (1989) and statewide organization development
(1994).
For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping Americans
protect the irreplaceable. With more than 200,000 members, the
National Trust is a leader in the vigorous preservation movement
that is saving the best of the country's past for the future.
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Staff
and Contact Information
Richard Moe, President
Peter Brink, Senior Vice President for Programs
Emily Wadhams, Vice President for Public Policy
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-588-1700
www.nthp.org
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Programs
For a listing of the National Trust
for Historic Preservation's programs, click here.
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News and
Events
National Trust Press Room
To go to the National Trust Press Room,
click here.
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