National Trust Preservation Conference
The National Preservation Conference is the largest gathering of its kind in the United States, annually attracting more than 2,000 attendees to participate in a weeklong series of field sessions, education workshops, and tours that showcase outstanding local examples of architecture, historic preservation and community revitalization. For over 65 years, the National Preservation Conference has attracted preservationists, community leaders, architects, educators and students from all over the country to examine leading-edge topics in the field of historic preservation.
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