America's Most Endangered Places

On May 30, 2019, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:[2]

• Ancestral Places of Southeast Utah
• Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge in Bismarck, North Dakota
• The Excelsior Club in Charlotte, North Carolina[3]
• Hacienda Los Torres in Lares, Puerto Rico, NRHP-listed
• Industrial Trust Company Building (aka "Superman Building") in Providence, Rhode Island
• James R. Thompson Center in Chicago
• Mount Vernon Arsenal and Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama, NRHP-listed
• Nashville’s Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee
• National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
• Tenth Street Historic District in Dallas, Texas
• Willert Park Courts in Buffalo, New York

In June 2018, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places, along with 1 extra site on 'watch status':[4]

• Annapolis City Dock Area in Annapolis, Maryland
• Ashley River Historic District in Charleston County, South Carolina
• Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital in Walthill, Nebraska
• Hurricane-Damaged Historic Resources of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
• Isaiah T. Montgomery House in Mound Bayou, Mississippi
• Larimer Square in Denver, Colorado
• Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Mount Vernon and Piscataway National Park in Mount Vernon, Virginia and Accokeek, Maryland
• Route 66
• Ship on the Desert in Salt Flat, Texas
• Walkout Schools of Los Angeles, California (including James A. Garfield High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, Belmont High School, and El Sereno Middle School)
• Four Towns of Vermont's Upper Valley -- Royalton, Sharon, Strafford and Tunbridge, Vermont

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:[5]

• Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland (listed 1988)
• Penn School (now Penn Center) in Frogmore, South Carolina (listed 1990)
• "Historic Boston Theaters" in Boston, Massachusetts (collectively referring to the Boston Opera House, the Paramount Theatre, and Modern Theatre) (listed 1995)
• Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (listed 1996)
• Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles, California (listed 1997)
• Governors Island National Monument in New York, New York (listed 1998)
• Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco, California (listed 1999)
• Traveler's Rest in Lolo, Montana (listed 1999)
• President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C. (listed 2000)
• Nine Mile Canyon in Utah (listed 2004)
• Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas, Texas (listed 2008)

In June 2016, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places:[6]

• Lions Municipal Golf Course in Austin, Texas
• Azikiwe–Nkrumah Hall at Lincoln University in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania [7]
• Bears Ears in southeastern Utah
• Charleston Naval Hospital District in North Charleston, South Carolina
• Delta Queen in Houma, Louisiana.
• Chihuahuita and El Segundo Barrio neighborhoods in El Paso, Texas
• Historic Downtown Flemington, New Jersey
• James River in James City County, Virginia
• Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• San Francisco Embarcadero in San Francisco, California
• Sunshine Mile in Tucson, Arizona

The June 2015 announced places are:[8]

• A.G. Gaston Motel, in Birmingham, Alabama, once "served as a 'war room' for leaders of the Civil Rights Movement"
• Carrollton Courthouse in Carrollton, New Orleans
• The Factory in West Hollywood, California
• Chautauqua Amphitheater, Chautauqua, New York
• East Point Historic Civic Block, East Point, Georgia
• Fort Worth Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas
• Grand Canyon, Arizona
• Little Havana, Miami
• Oak Flat, Superior, Arizona
• Old U.S. Mint, San Francisco
• South Street Seaport, New York

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

• Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota
• Bay Harbor's East Island, Dade County, Florida
• Chattanooga State Office Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring House, Tallahassee, Florida
• Historic Wintersburg, Huntington Beach, California
• Mokuaikaua, Kailua Village in Kona, Hawaii
• Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio (subsequently saved)
• Palladium Building, St. Louis, Missouri
• Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia
• The Palisades, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio (subsequently saved)

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)

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)
• Malcolm X – Ella Little-Collins House, 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

• Bear Butte, Meade County, South Dakota
• Belmead-on-the-James, Powhatan County, Virginia
• China Alley, Hanford, California
• Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Alabama
• Greater Chaco Landscape, San Juan County and McKinley County, New Mexico, U.S.
• Isaac Manchester Farm, Avella, Pennsylvania
• John Coltrane Home, Dix Hills, New York
• National Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Pillsbury A-Mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (demolished in 2014)
• Sites Imperiled by State Actions, Nationwide

• 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

• 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

• Bonnet House, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Boyd Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (demolished in 2015)
• California State Parks, California
• Charity Hospital and the surrounding neighborhood, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Great Falls Portage, Great Falls, Montana
• Hangar One, Moffett Federal Airfield, Santa Clara County, California
• Michigan Avenue Streetwall, Chicago, Illinois
• Neighborhood of the Lower East Side, New York, New York
• Neighborhood of Peace Bridge, Buffalo, New York
• The Statler Hilton Hotel, Dallas, Texas
• Sumner Elementary School, Topeka, Kansas
• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida

The 2007 places named to the list were:[9]

• Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront, New York, New York (from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park to Greenpoint Terminal Market site)[10]
• 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

• Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• 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

• 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

• 2 Columbus Circle, New York, New York
• Bethlehem Steel Plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Elkmont Historic District, Elkmont, Tennessee
• George Kraigher House, Brownsville, Texas
• Gullah/Geechee Coast, South Carolina and Georgia
• Historic Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
• Madison-Lenox Hotel, Detroit, Michigan (demolished in 2005)
• Nine Mile Canyon, Utah
• Ridgewood Ranch, Home of Seabiscuit, Willits, California
• State of Vermont, Vermont
• Tobacco Barns of Southern Maryland, Maryland

• Amelia Earhart Bridge, Atchison, Kansas
• Bathhouse Row, at 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 and Lexington, Massachusetts
• Ocmulgee Old Fields Traditional Cultural Property, Macon, Georgia
• TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York
• United States Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
• Urban Houses of Worship (nationwide)
• Zuni Salt Lake and Sanctuary Zone, New Mexico

• 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

• 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

• 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, D.C.
• Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Okeechobee Battlefield, Okeechobee, Florida
• Red Mountain Mining District, Colorado
• Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia, California
• Valley Forge National Historical Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• Wheelock Academy, Millerton, Oklahoma

The 1999 list was:[9]

• "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[11]
• Hulett Ore Unloaders, Whiskey Island, Cleveland, Ohio
• Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
• Pullman Historic District, Chicago, Illinois
• Richard H. Allen Memorial Auditorium 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

The 1998 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1997 list was:[9]

• Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine, Florida
• Cathedral of St. Vibiana, Los Angeles, California
• Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
• Cranston Street Armory, Providence, Rhode Island
• Flathead Indian Reservation, Lake, Sanders, Missoula, and Flathead, Montana
• Historic Buildings Infested with Formosan Termites, Gulf Coast states (Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia)
• Montezuma Castle, Montezuma, New Mexico
• Stillwater Bridge, Stillwater, New York (demolished 2010)
• Vicksburg Campaign Trail, Missouri and Louisiana
• Wa'ahila Ridge, Honolulu, Hawaii

The 1996 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1995 list was:[9]

• Archaeological Treasures of the Colorado Plateau, Statewide Colorado
• Ashley River Historic District, Ashley River (South Carolina)
• Bronx River Parkway, Bronx, New York
• Farish Street Neighborhood 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 Natatorium War Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Fair Park's Texas Centennial Buildings, Dallas, Texas

The 1994 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1993 list was:[9]

• 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, Adams County, Ohio
• Schooner C.A. Thayer, San Francisco, California
• State of Vermont
• Sweetgrass Hills, Montana
• Thomas Edison's Invention Factory, West Orange, New Jersey
• Town of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

The 1992 list was:[9]

• 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, 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 (demolished 2008-09)

The 1991 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1990 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1989 list was:[9]

• 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

The 1988 list was:[9]

• 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

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