Union station - American Express regilding project

American Express

For more than a decade American Express has been supporting preservation through program sponsorship and direct grantmaking.

For more than a decade American Express has partnered with the National Trust to preserve and protect America’s cultural and historic places, supporting preservation projects across the country.

Through the Partners in Preservation program between 2006-2016 American Express invested millions of dollars into preservation work in cities around the country, from Seattle to New York and New Orleans to Boston, to restore nationally significant and locally celebrated sites.

From 2012, they were the Presenting Partner of the Trust's National Treasures program, helping to make possible our work to save dozens of nationally important places and providing preservation grants to historic sites. In 2016 American Express and the National Trust raised national awareness about national parks across the country and provided grants for preservation projects through the Partners in Preservation: National Parks campaign.

Partners in Preservation: Main Streets will begin in Fall 2017 and feature diverse sites competing for $2 million in preservation grants.

The gallery below highlights some of the places where American Express has directly funded brick-and-mortar projects, from re-gilding the ceiling of DC's Union Station to restoring San Francisco's Haas Lilienthal House.

American Express Supported Places

“As a company committed to Historic Preservation for many years, we are honored to partner with an organization like the National Trust for Historic Preservation... Together we have rallied communities from coast to coast to save places that matter to them.”

Timothy J McClimon – President, American Express Foundation