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Mission Statement:
The Tennessee Preservation Trust promotes the preservation of our state's diverse historic resources through education, advocacy, and collaborative partnerships.

The Tennessee Preservation Trust (TPT) is a membership-based statewide non-profit historic preservation education and advocacy organization. Headquartered in Nashville, TPT represents thousands of the state's heritage supporters through its individual members and organizational affiliates. We strive to be the critical link for the state's diverse heritage community. Our organization helps monitor and promote preservation-friendly legislation at the local, state, and federal levels, and assists citizens across the state with advocacy issues pertaining to specific historic sites—as well as historic districts and zoning issues. TPT has a committed staff, an active board of directors, and many dedicated volunteers throughout Tennessee.


SMART PRESERVATION:LIVABLE & SUSTAINABLE

2012 Statewide Preservation Conference


 

Join us for the annual Tennessee Preservation Trust Statewide Preservation Conference May 31-June 2, 2012 in Nashville.

The Conference Hotel is hotel Indigo-Downtown, located at 301 Union Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37201.

Call 1-877-834-3613 and ask for Block Code TPT. Book by April 30th for a special rate of $129 per night.


 
 
 HISTORIC TENNESSEE
 
 
  
 
The Tennessee Preservation Trust presents the indelible images of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Robin Hood and the moving words of nationally esteemed    history writer James A. Crutchfield in HISTORIC TENNESSEE, a new publication that commemorates the state’s rich historical and architectural heritage. This  handsome book arrives just in time for the Christmas season and is filled with a lavish tapestry of more than 300 color photographs of ninety sites significant to the   drama of Tennessee’s colorful past – from upper East Tennessee to the Mississippi River.
    
 
 
 
 
 
  
The story of our state’s settlement and expansion, as well as its periods of conflict and human drama, is best evidenced today in the surviving structures and sites which were, in many instances, integral elements of the events that shaped Tennessee’s—and the nation’s—history.
 
 
Reach out and touch the mark of the ax on ancient logs felled by early settlers building new homes on the distant frontier; sit in the very room wherein visionary leaders gave birth to a new state for America; and stand on the parapet at Fort Loudoun, gaze out over Tellico Lake and ponder the now-submerged Cherokee town of Tannassy whence comes our state’s name.
 
 
 
Walk the marble halls of one of the nation’s oldest state capitols and hear the echo of debate deciding U. S. Constitutional ratification for Woman Suffrage, visit the Civil War battlefield at Franklin and sense the cacophonous agony and bloodshed of ten thousand American heroes, and at nearby Carnton Cemetery, hear their wives’ and mothers’ mournful sobbing. On a thumping, pulsating street in Memphis, experience the rhythm of the uniquely American music born there and sent out to the world by a blues man named Handy. And, a few miles up the road in a small town called Henning, hear the stories of one African-American family’s journey from slavery to Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
BEFORE School when grant was awarded, March 2008.
 
 

LOWE'S/NATIONAL TRUST RESTORATION GRANT
Partnership Project at Cairo Rosenwald School

PROJECT COMPLETED MAY 2009
The Tennessee Preservation Trust is pleased to partner with the
Cairo Rosenwald School in Gallatin, one of seventeen Rosenwald Schools selected to receive a generous restoration grant from Lowe’s and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  The Cairo Rosenwald School, located just outside Gallatin in Sumner County, is owned and maintained by the Cairo Improvement Club.  Trustees of the Cairo Improvement Club worked with the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation and the Tennessee Preservation Trust to complete the grant application.  The funds will be used to stabilize the foundation, repair the roof, update electrical work, and restore the building to its original design.  Once complete, it will continue to serve as a community and meeting center and rental facility for events.  Work on the project began Tuesday, December 2, 2008.   read more
AFTER School after restoration completed, May 2009.
 
2010 TEN IN TENNESSEE ENDANGERED LIST
List to be announced at Tennessee State Capitol, Thursday, May 20, 2010
The 2010 Ten in Tennessee Endangered List will be announced at a press conference on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Old Supreme Court Chambers at the Tennessee State Capitol.   Begun in 2001, this successful program highlights ten endangered places across the state to help garner support for saving threatened historic resources.   read more
 

Ongoing annual programs range from the Statewide Preservation Conference—enabling hundreds of Tennesseans to learn about tangible ways to protect their heritage—to the Ten in Tennessee List, a yearly roster highlighting the state’s most endangered historic places. In 2003, TPT debuted a State Preservation Awards program.  TPT believes in being accessible to all Tennesseans, and the group tries to hold at least one event in each grand division of the state per year.

 

 

Out Our Online Newsletter Here:

Past Newsletters:

Fall 2011 Newsletter

Click here for Fall 2009 Newsletter

Click here for Spring 2009 Newsletter

Click here for Winter 2008 Newsletter

 

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Tennessee Preservation Trust
P.O. Box 24373
Nashville, TN  37202
Phone and Fax:  (615) 963-1255

*The Tennessee Preservation Trust is the statewide partner of
the National Trust for Historic Preserva

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

            


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