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The Trust has worked to increase public awareness of New Haven's rich architectural and cultural heritage. Through publications, house and waling tours, heritage workshops, lectures, clinics, annual awards, an ongoing dialogue, the trust attempts to educate citizens, property owners, and government officials about the important benefits to the community that the preservation movement provides now an for the future. Several Key achievements- Establishment of 18 National Historic Districts, 3 Local Historic Districts, 1 State Historic District, 2 pending National Historic Districts. Creation of 46 volume Historic resource Inventory Guide of 4,600 New Haven Properties. Protection and preservation of original New Haven City Hall façade, former New Haven Post Office now federal Courthouse, Union Train Station and Davies Mansion on Prospect Street. We are a private non-profit organization, founded in 1961 and serving the architectural preservation needs of the city of New Haven. New Haven's early preservation movement was part of a growing national trend responding to threats to our nation's cultural heritage precipitated by the expansion of the interstate highway system and urban renewal in the late 1950's. |
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