Each year since 1987 the National Trust for Historic Preservation has released a list of places they consider the most endangered in America. The number of sites included on the list has varied, with the most recent lists settling on 11. The name of the list has varied from "America's Most Endangered Places" to "America's Most Endangered Historic Places" to "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places." The National Trust for Historic Preservation is an American member-supported organization which was founded in 1949 to support preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods through a range of programs and activities. ...

While 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—there have been notable losses, such as 2 Columbus Circle, which is undergoing significant renovations, and the original Guthrie Theater, which will be demolished the summer of 2006. The original design of the Edward Durell Stone building in 2 Columbus Circle. ... The Guthrie Theater is a venue for staging plays in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...

2006 Places

• Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• Blair Mountain Battlefield, Logan County, West Virginia
• Doo Wop Motels of Wildwood, New Jersey
• Fort Snelling Upper Post, Hennepin County, Minnesota
• Historic Communities and Landmarks of the Mississippi Coast
• Historic Neighborhoods of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Kenilworth, Illinois
• Kootenai Lodge, Bigfork, Montana
• Mission San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel, California
• Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood, Cincinnati, Ohio
• World Trade Center Vesey Street Staircase, New York, New York

The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest of the Smithsonian museums. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Map of Cape May County Panorama of the Wildwood boardwalk, facing north Wildwood is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. ... Fort Snelling is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in Hennepin County, Minnesota. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Kenilworth is a village located in Cook County, Illinois, approximately 17 mi (28 km) north of downtown Chicago. ... Another mission called San Miguel Arcangel is the San Miguel Arcangel de la Frontera mission in Baja California. ... Over the Rhine (or OTR, as they are sometimes referred to) are an Ohio-based musical band. ... The Survivors Staircase (also known as the Stairs to Nowhere) is the last above-ground remnant of the World Trade Center. ...

2005 Places

• Daniel Webster Farm, Franklin, New Hampshire
• The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor, MD, PA, VA
• Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Belleair, Florida
• 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, Massachusettes
• King Island, Alaska
• National Landscape Conservation System, Western States

Eleutherian College and Chapel Building A National Historic Landmark, Eleutherian College, founded in 1848 as Eleutherian Institute, was the first college in Indiana to admit students without regard to race or sex. ... The Ennis House is located in Los Angeles and was designed in 1923 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis, and built in 1924. ... Finca Vigía (Spanish for Lookout Farm) was the home of Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, and now houses a museum. ... Categories: Australia geography stubs | Islands of Australia ... The National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) houses all of the designated special places on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the U.S government. ...

2004 Places

• 2 Columbus Circle, New York, New York
• Bethlehem Steel Plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Elkmont Historic District, Tennessee
• George Kraigher House, Brownsville, Texas
• Gullah/Geechee Coast, SC AND GA
• Historic Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
• Madison-Lenox Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
• Nine Mile Canyon, Utah
• Ridgewood Ranch, Home of Seabiscuit, Willits, California
• State of Vermont, Vermont
• Tobacco Barns of Southern Maryland, Maryland

The original design of the Edward Durell Stone building in 2 Columbus Circle. ... Cook County Hospital is the fictional hospital in the NBC series ER ... The Madison Lenox was a hotel that stood in Detroit from 1900 to 2005. ... State nickname: The Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Governor Jim Douglas (R) Senators Patrick Leahy (D) Jim Jeffords (I) Official languages None Area 24,923 km² (43th)  - Land 23,974 km²  - Water 949 km² (3. ...

2003 Places

• Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridge, Atchison, Kansas
• Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
• East Side School and Middle School, Decorah, Iowa
• Little Manila, Stockton, California
• Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, Chicago, Illinois
• Minute Man National Historical Park and Environs, Concord, Lincoln, Lexington, Massachusetts
• Ocmulgee Old Fields Traditional Cultural Property, Macon, Georgia
• TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport, New York, New York
• United States Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
• Urban Houses of Worship, Nationwide
• Zuni Salt Lake and Sanctuary Zone, New Mexico

Little Manila (also known as Manilatowns or Filipinotowns) is a community with a large Filipino expatriate and descendant population. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA Airport Code: JFK, ICAO Airport Code: KJFK) is the main international airport in New York City, and is one of the largest airports in the world. ...

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, NB, 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. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia
• Teardowns in Historic Neighborhoods, Nationwide

A Skipjack is a type of sailing vessel, most commonly used during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for oyster dredging during winter time. ... Gold Dome This geodesic dome (known as the Gold Dome), is a major landmark in Oklahoma City, United States. ... The Guthrie Theater is a venue for staging plays in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Pompeys Pillar National Monument Pompeys Pillar National Monument is located in south central Montana, United States. ... A Rosenwald School was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African Americans in the early twentieth century. ... St. ...

2001 Places

• Bok Kai Temple, Marysville, California
• Carter G. Woodson Houses, Washington, District of Columbia
• 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

Ford Island is located in the middle of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... Jackson Ward is an historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. ...

2000 Places

• Eisenhower VA Medical Center, Leavenworth, Kansas
• Fifth & Forbes Historic Retail Area, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Historic Neighborhood Schools, Nationwide
• Hudson River Valley, Statewide, New York
• Lincoln Cottage, Washington, District of Columbia
• Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Okeechobee Battlefield, Okeechobee, Florida
• Red Mountain Mining District, Colorado
• Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia, California
• Valley Forge National Historial Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• Wheelock Academy, Millerton, Oklahoma

Image of the Hudson River taken by NASA. View of the Hudson River in 1880s showing Jersey City View of the Hudson River from Battery Park, New York The Goldman Sachs Tower looms above the skyline of downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, overlooking the Hudson River. ... Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, formed of glacial moraine. ... Lily Okuru, a Japanese-American woman held at Santa Anita Park, poses with the statue of Seabiscuit, 1942 Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California opened in 1934 and is the oldest and most prestigious horse racetrack in Southern California. ... Recreation of a cabin in which soldiers would have lived at Valley Forge. ...

1999 Places

• 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, Statewide, New York
• Hulett Ore Unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio
• Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
• Pullman Historic District, Chicago, Illinois
• Richard H. Allen Memorial Auditorium, Sitka, Alaska
• San Diego Arts & Warehouse District, San Diego, California
• Travelers' Rest, Travelers Rest, Montana
• West Side of Downtown Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland

Angel Island Angel Island is an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, offering spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. ... Lancaster County is a county located in the south-central portion of the state of Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna Valley. ...

1998 Places

• Black Hawk & Central City, Black Hawk & 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, Statewide, Texas
• Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Southern States, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, LA, AL, MS
• Mapes Hotel, Reno, Nevada
• Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
• Michigan's Historic Lighthouses, Exemplified by DeTour Reef Light, Statewide, Michigan
• Monocacy Aqueduct, Maryland

Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California (36. ... Governors Island is a 172 acre (696,000 m²) island in Upper New York Bay, approximately one half mile from the southern tip of Manhattan, of which it is legally a part, in New York City. ... The Mapes Hotel in 2000, shortly before its demolition The Mapes Hotel was a hotel/casino located in Reno, Nevada, next to the Truckee River on Virginia Street. ... Mesa Verde National Park is a national park in southwest Colorado, in the United States. ...

1997 Places

• Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine, Florida
• Cathedral of St. Vibiana, Los Angeles, California
• Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia
• Cranston Street Armory, Providence, Rhode Island
• Flathead Indian Reservation, Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana
• Historic Buildings Infested with Formosan Termites, Gulf Coast States, LA, FL, TX, MS, AL, GA
• Montezuma Castle, Montezuma, New Mexico
• Stillwater Bridge, Stillwater, Minnesota
• Vicksburg Campaign Trail, MS, LA
• Wa'ahila Ridge, Honolulu, Hawaii

This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. ... St. ... Congressional Cemetery The Congressional Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. It is the final resting place of many members of the United States Congress, most of whom died in Washington while Congress was in session or afterwards when they were too ill to... The Flathead Indian Reservation is located in western Montana, it is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai and Pend dOreilles Tribes - also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation (1). ... Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona in the western United States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings. ... The Stillwater Bridge (alternatively known as the Stillwater Lift Bridge, St. ...

1996 Places

• Adobe Churches of New Mexico, Statewide, New Mexico
• East Broad Top Railroad, East Broad Top, 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 Theater, Chicago, Illinois
• Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel, Newcastle, New Hampshire

East Broad Top #15 in front of the Orbisonia Depot. ... There are two places in the Rocky Mountains of North America named Glacier National Park: Glacier National Park (U.S.) in Montana Glacier National Park (Canada) in British Columbia. ... Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Little Rock Central High School was the site of a major event during the civil rights movement in the United States. ... This article is about the town; for the type of rock, see Petoskey Stone. ... Opened as the Lagoon Theater in 1913 the Uptown is one of the oldest surviving theaters in the Twin City area. ...

1995 Places

• Archaeological Treasures of the Colorado Plateau, Statewide, Colorado
• Ashley River Historic District, South Carolina
• Bronx River Parkway, New York
• Farish Street Historic District, Jackson, Mississippi
• Historic Boston Theaters, Boston, Massachusetts
• Ossabaw Island, Ossabaw Island, Georgia
• South Pass, South Pass, Wyoming
• Tugboat Hoga, Oakland, California
• Village of East Aurora, East Aurora, New York
• Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Fair Park's Texas Centennial Buildings, Dallas, Texas

The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ... The Bronx River Parkway was one of the earliest limited access automobile highways. ... South Pass, seen from the west looking eastward towards Pacific Springs South Pass (elevation 7550 ft) is a mountain pass on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming. ...

1994 Places

• Fair Park's Texas Centennial Buildings, Dallas, Texas
• Cape Cod, Massachusetts
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
• Historic Northern Virginia Piedmont, Virginia Piemont, Virginia
• Manuelito Archaeological Complex, Gallup vicinity, New Mexico
• Natchez, Natchez, Mississippi
• Oldest Surviving McDonald's, Downey, California
• The Cornices (and Buildings of Harlem), Harlem, New York
• The Old Mint, San Francisco, California
• U.S.S. Constellation, Baltimore, Maryland

Astronaut photo of Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay. ... For the studio established by Frank Lloyd Wright, see Taliesin (studio) Taliesin or Taliessin (c. ... Natchez is a city located in Adams County, Mississippi. ... The USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. ...

1993 Places

• Virginia City, Virginia City, Montana
• Eight Historic Dallas Neighborhoods, Dallas, Texas
• Brandy Station Battlefield, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• Downtown New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Prehistoric Serpent Mound, Locust Grove, Ohio
• Schooner C.A. Thayer, San Francisco, California
• State of Vermont, Statewide, Vermont
• Sweetgrass Hills, Montana
• Thomas Edison's Invention Factory, West Orange, New Jersey
• Town of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Virginia City is a city located in Storey County, Nevada. ... State nickname: The Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Governor Jim Douglas (R) Senators Patrick Leahy (D) Jim Jeffords (I) Official languages None Area 24,923 km² (43th)  - Land 23,974 km²  - Water 949 km² (3. ...

1992 Places

• Virginia City, Virginia City, Montana
• Eight Historic Dallas Neighborhoods, Dallas, Texas
• Ellis Island National Monument, New York Harbor, New York, Harlem New York
• Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Louisiana's Historic River Road, Statewide, Louisiana
• Sweet Auburn, Atlanta, Georgia
• West Baden Springs Hotel, West Baden Springs, Indiana
• Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Montpelier, Orange, Virginia
• Tiger Stadium, Detroit, Michigan

Virginia City is a city located in Storey County, Nevada. ... Ellis Island immigrants as depicted in a USPS stamp Ellis Island, in the joint jurisdiction of New Jersey and New York, is located in New York Harbor at the mouth of the Hudson River. ... Gettysburg Map The Gettysburg Battlefield was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought in 1863 in and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Adams County, which had approximately 2,400 residents at the time. ... The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Independence National Historic Park, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the historic area of downtown (or Center City) Philadelphia where Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and the National Constitution Center are located, along with dozens of other historic buildings and educational centers. ... Montpellier is the name of a Southern French city. ... This article is about Tiger Stadium in Detroit. ...

External link

• America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2006