Explore an unequaled collection of historic places.
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Historic places create connections to our heritage that help us understand our past, appreciate our triumphs, and learn from our mistakes. Historic places help define and distinguish our communities by building a strong sense of identity.
To ensure that their stories remain a part of our lives today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation protects and promotes historic places, including a diverse collection of 27 sites open to the public. When you visit a historic site, you learn from their stories and help keep history alive.
Members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation enjoy discounted admission to all 27 sites open to the public and Distinctive Destinations nationwide.
Explore all of our historic sites via the map below, or see the full list here. We encourage you to check directly with each site for up-to-date information if you are planning a visit.
Donate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation today and you'll help preserve places that tell our stories, reflect our culture, and shape our shared American experience.
The Woodlawn Needlework Show is the largest judged needlework show in the nation, exhibiting hundreds of pieces of work submitted by needlecrafters from all skill levels and backgrounds. In 2025, Woodlawn will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Nelly’s Needlers, the volunteer corps at Woodlawn that are instrumental in orchestrating the Needlework Show.
This online program is presented via Zoom by the Smithsonian Associates program on March 16, 2025, 2:00 PM-3:15 PM ET. Tickets are $25.
During the late 1940s, two glass-walled pavilions were designed by then-leading modern architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. From their beginnings to the present, these houses have an intertwined history. In 1938, Mies became head of the architecture school at Chicago’s Armour Institute.
Mies was later commissioned to design a modern weekend house for Chicago nephrologist Edith Farnsworth. Johnson admired the concept of the glass, travertine, and steel residence and became familiar with it during visits to Mies’s Chicago office as he curated a retrospective of the architect’s works planned for MoMA in 1947. In 1949, Johnson designed and built his own version—The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut
Over the years, the National Trust for Historic Preservation acquired both houses, opening them to the public in 2004. The executive directors Scott Mehaffey of the Edith Farnsworth House and Kirsten Reoch of The Glass House, discuss the fascinating shared history of these icons of Modernism.
Historic Sites
The National Trust’s remarkable portfolio of historic sites contains a trove of objects that can be interpreted in multiple ways to tell a compelling American story.
The Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program (HAHS) is a coalition of more than 30 museums that were the homes and working studios of American artists. Come, witness creativity.
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