Endangered places
WASHINGTON — The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting nominations for its annual list of endangered places, which identifies examples of U.S. architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk.
Nominations are due Dec. 5. The 2009 list of 11 endangered historic places will be named May 6. (www.PreservationNation.org/issues/11-most-endangered.)
Focusing attention on a landmark in need of restoration often galvanizes preservation efforts. The list has identified 200 sites since it started in 1988, and only six of those have been lost.
The 2008 list included N.Y.'s Lower East Side, where development threatens the neighborhood's history as a haven for immigrants; Great Falls Portage, Mont., an important site in the Lewis and Clark (below) expedition, which the National Trust says is threatened by a proposal for a coal plant nearby; and the Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kan., a school at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
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