Chronology of the National Trust Historic Sites by Date

Dates refer to year in which a site became a National Trust Historic Site. Please note that although most of these sites are owned by the National Trust, most are managed by other organizations.

1949 National Trust for Historic Preservation chartered by Congress
1951 Woodlawn operated by NTHP
1952 Preservation magazine first published
1956 Decatur House
1957 Woodlawn owned by NTHP
1958 Shadows-on-the-Teche
1961 Lyndhurst
1961 Woodrow Wilson House
1964 Belle Grove
1964 Pope-Leighey House
1965 Oatlands
1968 Cooper-Molera Adobe
1969 Chesterwood
1970 Study Tours program begun
1971 First field office opened (San Francisco)
1971 Preservation Honor Awards inaugurated
1972 Cliveden
1973 Preservation Week inaugurated
1974 Drayton Hall
1974 Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio
1975 Filoli
1979 Kykuit donated
1981 Brucemore
1984 James Madison’s Montpelier
1988 Eleven Most Endangered inaugurated
1989 Historic Hotels of America launched
1993 Richard Moe becomes president of the Trust
1994 Kykuit opened to public
1997 Gaylord Building
1997 Robie House
1998 Lower East Side Tenement Museum
1998 Save America’s Treasures launched
1998 Annual federal funding for the National Trust ends
2001 Touro Synagogue
2003 African Meeting House (Boston) and Abiel Smith School
2003 African Meeting House (Nantucket) and Higginbotham House
2003 Farnsworth House
2006 Acoma Sky City
2007 Glass House (opens to public)
2007 Hotel de Paris Museum
2008 President Lincoln’s Cottage (opens to the public)
2008 PreservationNation launched
TBD Villa Finale