News Release

May 21, 1999

Save America's Treasures Reports Success:
Names 73 Official Projects Through the National Trust

Washington, D.C. — In the earthen halls of Santa Fe's Palace of the Governors, Save America's Treasures — a public-private partnership of the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation — today announced to members of the southwest preservation community that it has designated 73 Official Projects to date through the program's private-sector partner, the National Trust.

By designating Official Projects, Save America's Treasures embraces a broad range of preservation projects across the country, conferring a distinction of historic or cultural significance, educational value and preservation need. This announcement follows the awarding of 62 federal grants from the Save America's Treasures Fund by Congress on Wednesday, May 19, which were only available to preservation projects submitted by agencies under the auspices of the Interior Appropriations bill.

"America’s irreplaceable historic and cultural heritage is not only found in national symbols like the Star-Spangled Banner, or Louis Armstrong’s collection of recordings, but also in communities across America," said First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is visiting historic and cultural sites in America's southwest in her role as honorary chair of the Millennium Committee to Save America's Treasures. "By working together as a nation to preserve the best of the past — and protect what history has given us — we’re giving an irreplaceable gift to future generations."

"By naming Official Projects, Save America’s Treasures can bring national recognition to significant preservation efforts across the country," said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust and co-chair of the Millennium Committee to Save America's Treasures, who addressed the preservation community. "We are proud of the early success of the program, and encourage organizations throughout the country to seek an Official Projects designation as one more way to save their irreplaceable treasures."

Save America's Treasures at the National Trust called for Official Project applications in early April 1999. Non-profit organizations and federal, state or local agencies may apply to become Save America's Treasures Official Projects if their projects involve the preservation, restoration or conservation of historic buildings, sites, documents, artifacts, objects, or related educational activities. Although Official Project designation does not provide direct funding, it is the first step in gaining eligibility for private grants through the Save America’s Treasures program at the National Trust

Save America’s Treasures Official Projects designation will benefit the recipients of the federal grants. Added Moe, "Since the grantees must match the federal award with private funding, Official Projects designation will help these historic sites and collections raise awareness and support."

For more information on Save America’s Treasures Official Projects or to receive an application, contact Save America’s Treasures at the National Trust at 202-588-6202, or visit www.saveamericastreasures.org.

About Save America’s Treasures

Save America’s Treasures is a public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, dedicated to the celebration and preservation of our nation’s threatened cultural treasures for future generations, including significant historic structures, monuments, documents, objects and collections that document and illuminate the history and culture of the United States. The Millennium Committee to Save America’s Treasures provides guidance and expertise to the historic effort, and is led by Honorary Chair Hillary Rodham Clinton and co-chairs Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. As a private-sector partner to the White House Millennium Council, the National Trust coordinates the Save America’s Treasures public awareness and education campaigns and works with two associate partners, Heritage Preservation and the National Park Foundation, to raise funds for the most urgent preservation needs identified at the state and national levels.

About the National Trust

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, chartered by Congress in 1949, is a private, non-profit membership organization dedicated to protecting the irreplaceable. It fights to save historic buildings and the neighborhoods and landscapes they anchor. Through education and advocacy, the National Trust is revitalizing communities across the country and challenging citizens to create sensible plans for the future. It has six regional offices and 20 historic sites, and works with thousands of community groups nationwide.

Save America’s Treasures Official Projects
as of May 1999

African Meeting House, Boston African-American National Historic Site, Boston, MA

Alexandria Academy, Alexandria, VA

Anderson Cottage, Lincoln’s Summer Home, Washington, DC

Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, CA

Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Senator John and Eliza Pope Villa, Lexington, KY

Breed Street Shul, Los Angeles, CA

Brodbeck Music Hall, Frederick, MD

Buffalo City Hall, East & West Sandstone Friezes, Buffalo, NY

Buffalo Trace Greenway, Johnson City, TN

Butte's Historic Records, Butte, MT

Castle Clinton National Monument, New York, NY

Charters of Freedom and Murals, National Archives, Washington, DC

Cheshire Mills Complex, Harrisville, NH

Chesterwood , a National Trust Historic Site, Stockbridge, MA

Commercial Pattern Archive, Kingston, NJ

Edison National Historic Site, East Orange, NJ

Eli Whitney Boarding House for Single Working Men, Hamden, CT

Ellis Island Ferry Slip, Statue of Liberty National Monument

Fort Des Moines Black Officers Memorial, Des Moines, IA

Founding Fathers Papers, Lexington, VA -- add locations for others

Gaineswood, Demopolis, AL

Galen Stone Hall, Charlote Hawkins Brown Historic Site, Sedalia, NC

Gettysburg Cyclorama, "Pickett’s Charge", Gettysburg National Military Park, PA

Grand Traverse Commons, Traverse City, MI

Hendrick I. Lott House, New York, NY

Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center's Hall of Space Museum, Hutchinson, KS

Kentucky Theater’s Original Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ, Lexington, KY

Lewis & Clark's Travelers' Rest Campsite, Lolo, MT

Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA

Louis Armstrong House and Archives, Queens, NY

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ

Lower St. Charles Corridor of Central City, New Orleans, LA

M’Clintock House, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY

McClintock Well #1, Drake Well Museum, Titusville, PA

Melvin Memorial Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mitre Caps of the Providence and British Grenadiers, Providence, RI

Montezuma Castle, Montezuma, NM

Montpelier, a National Trust Historic Site, Orange, VA

Museum of the City of Washington, DC, Washington, DC

New York University Conservation Center’s Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY

Old Charleston County City Jail, School of the Building Arts, Charleston, SC

Olympia, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Palace of the Governors and Collections, Santa Fe, NM

Rockingham Historic Site and Relocation Project, Princeton, NJ

San Estaban del Rey Mission and Convento, Acoma Pueblo, NM

Save Maryland's Treasures Program, Annapolis, MD

Save Outdoor Sculpture! 2000 Assessment and Conservation Treatment Awards, Nationwide

Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood, MD

Southwest Pieta, Longfellow Magnet School, Albuquerque, NM

Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron, OH

Star-Spangled Banner, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

Ten Chimneys Estate, Genessee Depot, WI

The Kelley House Museum, Mendocino, CA

The Mount, Home of Edith Wharton, Lenox, MA

The President William McKinley Monument, Buffalo, NY

The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Buffalo, NY

Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, VA

Treasures 2000 Exhibition, Nationwide

Treasures of American Film Archives, National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Union Tavern/Thomas Day House, Milton, NC

Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY

Ventfort Hall, Lenox, MA

Vista House at Crown Point, Multnomah County, Salem, OR

Vulcan and His Park, Birmingham, AL

Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Walt Whitman's Birthplace: Home of America's Poet of Democracy, West Hills, NY

Washburn-Crosby A Mill, St. Paul, MN

Washington Monument, Washington, DC

West Baden Springs, Indianapolis, IN

Winterthur/University of Delaware's Program in Art Conservation, Newark, DE

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