America's 11 Most Endangered Places or America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places is an annual list of places in the United States that the National Trust for Historic Preservation considers the most endangered. It aims to inspire Americans to preserve examples of architectural and cultural heritage that could be "relegated to the dustbins of history" without intervention.
Many of the locations listed by the Trust have been preserved. However, there have been notable losses, such as 2 Columbus Circle, which underwent significant renovations, and the original Guthrie Theater, demolition of which was completed in early 2007.
First released in 1988, the number of sites included on the list has varied, with the most recent lists settling on 11.
2026 places On May 20, 2026, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered historic places: Ben Moore Hotel, Montgomery, Alabama Tule Lake Segregation Center, Modoc County, California Angel Island Immigration Station, Tiburon, California Swansea Friends Meeting House, Somerset, Massachusetts Detroit Association of Women's Clubs Building, Detroit, Michigan Greater Chaco Cultural landscape, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York Stonewall National Monument, New York City, New York The President's House Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hanging Rock Revolutionary War Battlefield, Heath Springs, South Carolina El Corazón Sagrado de la Iglesia de Jesús, Ruidosa, Texas
2025 places The National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered historic places on May 7, 2025: Cedar Key, Florida French Broad and Swannanoa River Corridors, Western North Carolina Hotel Casa Blanca, Idlewild, Michigan May Hicks Curtis House, Flagstaff, Arizona Mystery Castle, Phoenix, Arizona Oregon Caves Chateau, Cave Junction, Oregon Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William, Virginia San Juan Hotel, San Juan, Texas Terminal Island Japanese American Tuna Street Buildings, Los Angeles, California The Turtle, Niagara Falls, New York The Wellington, Pine Hill, New York
2024 places On May 1, 2024, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered historic places: Cindy Walker House, Mexia, Texas Eatonville, Florida Estate Whim Museum, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Hudson–Athens Lighthouse, Athens, New York Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California Minute Man National Historical Park, Walden, and Nearby Landmarks, Massachusetts New Salem Baptist Church, Tams, West Virginia Roosevelt High School, Gary, Indiana Sitka Tlingit Clan Houses, Sitka, Alaska Tangier American Legation, Tangier, Morocco Wilderness Battlefield Area, Orange County, Virginia
2023 places On May 9, 2023, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered historic places:
Osterman Gas Station, Peach Springs, Arizona Little Santo Domingo, Miami, Florida Pierce Chapel African Cemetery, Midland, Georgia Century and Consumers Buildings, Chicago, Illinois West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana Holy Aid and Comfort Spiritual Church (aka Perseverance Benevolent and Mutual Aid Society Hall), New Orleans, Louisiana L.V. Hull Home and Studio, Kosciusko, Mississippi Henry Ossawa Tanner House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Chinatown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Charleston’s Historic Neighborhoods, Charleston, South Carolina Seattle Chinatown-International District, Seattle, Washington
2022 places On May 4, 2022, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered historic places:
Brooks-Park Home and Studios, East Hampton, New York Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, Alabama Camp Naco, Naco, Arizona Chicano/a/x Community Murals of Colorado The Deborah Chapel, Hartford, Connecticut Francisco Q. Sanchez Elementary School, Humåtak, Guam Jamestown, Virginia Minidoka National Historic Site, Jerome, Idaho Olivewood Cemetery, Houston, Texas Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, North Carolina Picture Cave, Warren County, Missouri
2021 places On June 3, 2021, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:
Selma to Montgomery March Camp Sites, Selma, Alabama Trujillo Adobe, Riverside, California Summit Tunnels 6 & 7 and Summit Camp Site, Truckee, California Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home, Camilla, Georgia Morningstar Tabernacle No.88 Order of Moses Cemetery and Hall, Cabin John, Maryland Boston Harbor Islands, Boston, Massachusetts Sarah E. Ray House, Detroit, Michigan The Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, Mississippi Threatt Filling Station and Family Farm, Luther, Oklahoma Oljato Trading Post, San Juan County, Utah Pine Grove Elementary School, Cumberland, Virginia
2020 places On September 24, 2020, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:
Alazan-Apache Courts, San Antonio, Texas Hall of Waters, Excelsior Springs, Missouri Harada House, Riverside, California National Negro Opera Company House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ponce Historic Zone, Ponce, Puerto Rico Rassawek, Columbia, Virginia Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, Chicago, Illinois Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site, Berkeley, California Yates Memorial Hospital, Ketchikan, Alaska
2019 places On May 30, 2019, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places:
Ancestral Places of Southeast Utah Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge in Bismarck, North Dakota The Excelsior Club in Charlotte, North CarolinaThe Excelsior Club Hacienda Los Torres in Lares, Puerto Rico, NRHP-listed Industrial Trust Company Building (aka "Superman Building") in Providence, Rhode Island James R. Thompson Center in Chicago Mount Vernon Arsenal and Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama, NRHP-listed Nashville's Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Tenth Street Historic District in Dallas, Texas Willert Park Courts in Buffalo, New York
2018 places In June 2018, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places, along with 1 extra site on 'watch status':, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Annapolis City Dock Area in Annapolis, Maryland Ashley River Historic District in Charleston County, South Carolina Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital in Walthill, Nebraska Hurricane-Damaged Historic Resources of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands Isaiah T. Montgomery House in Mound Bayou, Mississippi Larimer Square in Denver, Colorado Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport, Connecticut Mount Vernon and Piscataway National Park in Mount Vernon, Virginia and Accokeek, Maryland Route 66 Wallace E. Pratt House (Ship on the Desert) in Salt Flat, Texas Walkout Schools of Los Angeles, California (including James A. Garfield High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, Belmont High School, and El Sereno Middle School) Four Towns of Vermont's Upper Valley -- Royalton, Sharon, Strafford and Tunbridge, Vermont
2017 places For 2017, the National Trust for Historic Preservation marked the 30th anniversary of the "America's Most Endangered Places" program by releasing a list of 11 "Success Stories"—sites that were named to the "Most Endangered" list that were the focus of successful preservation efforts:Historic Boston Theaters Named To List of “America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” Success Stories (press release),
Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland (listed 1988) Penn School (now Penn Center) in Frogmore, South Carolina (listed 1990) "Historic Boston Theaters" in Boston, Massachusetts (collectively referring to the Boston Opera House, the Paramount Theatre, and Modern Theatre) (listed 1995) Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (listed 1996) Cathedral of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles, California (listed 1997) Governors Island National Monument in New York, New York (listed 1998) Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco, California (listed 1999) Traveler's Rest in Lolo, Montana (listed 1999) President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C. (listed 2000) Nine Mile Canyon in Utah (listed 2004) Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas, Texas (listed 2008)
2016 places In June 2016, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places:11 Most Endangered Places 2016, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Lions Municipal Golf Course in Austin, Texas Azikiwe–Nkrumah Hall at Lincoln University in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania Bears Ears in southeastern Utah Charleston Naval Hospital District in North Charleston, South Carolina Delta Queen in Houma, Louisiana. Chihuahuita and El Segundo Barrio neighborhoods in El Paso, Texas Historic Downtown Flemington, New Jersey James River in James City County, Virginia Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin San Francisco Embarcadero in San Francisco, California Sunshine Mile in Tucson, Arizona
2015 places The June 2015 announced places are: A.G. Gaston Motel, in Birmingham, Alabama, once "served as a 'war room' for leaders of the Civil Rights Movement" Carrollton Courthouse in Carrollton, New Orleans The Factory in West Hollywood, California Chautauqua Amphitheater, Chautauqua, New York East Point Historic Civic Block, East Point, Georgia Fort Worth Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas Grand Canyon, Arizona Little Havana, Miami Oak Flat, Superior, Arizona Old U.S. Mint, San Francisco South Street Seaport, New York
2014 places In June 2014, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be: Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota Bay Harbor's East Island, Dade County, Florida Chattanooga State Office Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring House, Tallahassee, Florida Historic Wintersburg, Huntington Beach, California Mokuaikaua, Kailua Village in Kona, Hawaii Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio (subsequently saved) Palladium Building, St. Louis, Missouri Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia The Palisades, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio (subsequently saved)
2013 places In June 2013, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be: Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland, Maine Astrodome, Houston, Texas (added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014) Chinatown House, Rancho Cucamonga, California Gay Head Lighthouse, Aquinnah, Massachusetts Historic Rural Schoolhouses of Montana (statewide) James River, James City County, Virginia Kake Cannery, Kake, Alaska Mountain View Black Officers' Club, Fort Huachuca, Arizona San Jose Church, Old San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico Village of Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio Worldport Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York (subsequently demolished)
2012 places In June 2012, the National Trust announced its list of 11 most endangered places to be: Bridges of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Village, California Ellis Island hospital complex, New York Harbor, New York and New Jersey Historic U.S. post office buildings (nationwide) Joe Frazier's Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013) Malcolm X—Ella Little-Collins House, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts Princeton Battlefield, Princeton, New Jersey Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, Georgia Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles, California Texas courthouses, Texas (statewide) Elkhorn Ranch, Billings County, North Dakota Village of Zoar, Ohio
2011 places Bear Butte, Meade County, South Dakota Belmead-on-the-James, Powhatan County, Virginia China Alley, Hanford, California Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Alabama Greater Chaco Landscape, San Juan County and McKinley County, New Mexico, U.S. Isaac Manchester Farm, Avella, Pennsylvania John Coltrane Home, Dix Hills, New York