National Trust For Historic Preservation - National Trust Historic Sites

National Trust Historic Sites

Twenty-nine sites are designated as National Trust Historic Sites. Most are owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operated by other non-profit organizations (e.g., Farnsworth House); some are not owned by the Trust but are still operated by the Trust (e.g., President Lincoln's Cottage); some are owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (e.g., Drayton Hall); and some are owned and operated by other non-profit organizations and hold a long-term cooperative agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (e.g., Lower East Side Tenement Museum). These sites currently include:

  • Acoma Sky City, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
  • The African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts
  • The African Meeting House, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Carpenter Theater, Richmond, Virginia
  • Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
  • Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
  • Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Cooper-Molera Adobe, Monterey, California
  • Decatur House, Washington, DC
  • Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina
  • Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
  • Filoli, Woodside, California
  • Gaylord Building, Lockport, Illinois
  • Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
  • Hotel de Paris, Georgetown, Colorado
  • Kykuit, Tarrytown, New York
  • Lincoln Cottage, Washington, DC
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, New York
  • Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, New York
  • James Madison's Montpelier, Orange, Virginia
  • Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia
  • Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois
  • Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana
  • Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island
  • Woodlawn Plantation, Alexandria, Virginia
  • Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, D.C.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois
  • Villa Finale, San Antonio, Texas

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