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October 02, 2008, 12:39 PM ET
Historic Buildings Threatened on Your Campus? The National Trust Is Taking Names
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is taking nominations for its annual list of 11 “most endangered” places. This should be of interest to folks who care about history and architecture.
Will any college buildings land on this year’s list because they’re being replaced by new construction, or because of the looming challenges that colleges have with deferred maintenance? Historically black colleges and universities made the list in 1998. “A study by the General Accounting Office found that the estimated cost of restoring and preserving the 712 historic properties — including dormitories, chapels, gymnasiums and classroom buildings — owned by the schools is $755-million, of which a mere $60-million, or 8 percent, has been set aside in school budgets,” the trust reported at the time. It now says that situation has been turned around.
Do you want to nominate an dangered building or landscape from your own campus? Say so below, or contact the trust. My campus nomination: Antioch College. —Scott Carlson
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