National Trust for Historic Preservation News

The residential architecture of Orlando's Rosemere neighborhood features bungalows such as this home on Harvard Street.

Unity Temple in the suburban Chicago community of Oak Park was completed in 1908.

Transforming Woonsocket's sporadically vacant, dilapidated and economically challenged Main Street to a vibrant cultural and business center requires more residents, teamwork, organization and a full-time manager.

A Hotel Lafayette mural the Easton Main Street Initiative helped establish was one of the factors that led to its accreditation.

One million dollars from American Express to improve historic D.C.-area sites will certainly help, but experts say that the District, despite its reputation for bureaucratic logjam, has been largely successful over the past three decades in its efforts to preserve historic landmarks and neighborhoods.

The Washington National Cathedral , still recovering from a rare 2011 East Coast earthquake, has won $100,000 in preservation funding after being the top vote-getter in the "Partners in Preservation" campaign.

Washington National Cathedral and George Washington's Mount Vernon estate have both won $100,000 grants among 24 sites around the nation's capital competing for historic preservation funds.

Several historic Washington sites are about to look a little nicer, thanks to American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Farmington Downtown Development Authority has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation Fund recently awarded the college $2,500 to learn more about this slave cabin.

Hometown songstress Gloria Estefan has become the public face of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's campaign to save Virginia Key's Miami Marine Stadium.

Downtown Beloit Association learned a week ago that it has been designated as a National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Cronin School, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1863 and tucked away on the Joliet Junior College campus, was officially made a local Joliet landmark by the Joliet City Council Tuesday night.

A bevy of city economic development, planning and D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development officials gathered with D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray on Monday evening last week at the landmark Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street, N.E., to celebrate a special recognition with community leaders and residents.

Statements by Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Caroline E. Boyce, executive director of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia News of the National Park Service listing of Joe Frazier's Gym on the National Register of Historic Places marked an important milestone.

Washington National Cathedral and Mount Vernon are jockeying for the overall lead in the $1 million Partners in Preservation contest, but there are still two days left for some of the smaller Washington-area sites to mount a comeback.

The theme is See, Save, Celebrate: * Progressive Preservation Art Show at The Green Building Gallery, 731 E. Market St.; Swanson Gallery, 638 E. Market; Peace of the Earth, 801 E. Market; Earth Friends Cafe, 829 E. Market; Pyro Gallery, 909 E. Market and Gallerie Hertz, 1253 S. Preston St.

It's official: Sykesville's Main Street Association is making all the right moves, helping to bring the local economy into the future, maintaining historic buildings and strengthening and growing businesses.

Partners in Preservation , a joint venture of American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation wherein AmEx puts up $1 million, the Trust identifies worthy "shovel-ready" projects, and the public votes on which ones are most deserving of funding.

May is Preservation Month and Main Street and other preservation organizations, both large and small, will take the time to celebrate history and historic places.