The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Ellis Island Hospital Complex, in New York Harbor (New York /New Jersey). The former haven of immigrants, the hospital is dilapidated, according to the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is the Village of Zoar in Ohio. According to the NTHP, the 195-year-old village faces the possible removal of a levee that could demolish or flood the town.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Sweet Auburn Historic District, in Atlanta, Georgia. The birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a segregated African-American neighborhood during Jim Crow, the area is challenged by disinvestment and improper development along its commercial corridor, says the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Princeton Battlefield, in Princeton, New Jersey. The scene of a key battle during the Revolutionary War, the battlefield is faced with a proposed housing development that would change its historical landscape, according to the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Malcolm X-Ella Little-Collins House, in Boston, Massachusetts. Constructed over 100 years ago, this is the last known home of the famed civil rights leader, says the organization. Plans for the place are to turn it into residences for grad students studying African American history.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Joe Frazier's Gym, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The place where the late and legendary boxer trained for his fight against Muhammad Ali, the gym is up for sale and not been recognized for preservation status, according to the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Geneva Post Office, in Geneva Illinois. Post offices are facing a climate of uncertainty -- the organization cites the USPS' "haphazard disposition process."
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch, in Billings County, North Dakota. It was at the ranch that influenced the president's position on conservation, says the organization and adds that the site is currently challenged by a proposed road and bridge that would affect the landscape.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Terminal Island in the Port of Los Angeles in California. A former center of shipbuilding and now a place for TV and movie productions, Terminal Island is facing calls for limited reuse of the buildings as well as demolition, according to the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Tyler County Courthouse in Woodville, Texas. The courthouses are impacted by deterioration and lack of public funding to restore them, says the organization.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 25th Annual List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on June 6, 2012. Among the selected sites is Yosemite Stone Bridge, in Yosemite Valley, California. According to the organization, this bridge and others could face removal under a National Park Service plan for the management of the Merced River.