Washington– the Stonewall National Monumentthe Location of the president’s house The Women’s Rights National Historical Park is among 11 sites on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Foundation for Historic Preservation.
The 2026 list, announced on Wednesday, represents 2026 250th anniversary of America’s founding With the basic principle that everyone is created equal,” said Carol Quillen, president and CEO of the nonprofit. She said the 11 sites provide examples of how Americans have struggled over time against injustice and for equality.
“We wanted to think about those ideas, especially this idea that all human beings are created equal and find places, sometimes unknown places…that not all Americans routinely think about,” Quillen told The Associated Press.
These sites are spread across the United States – from New York and California on the east and west coasts, to Alabama and Texas in the south, to Michigan in the Midwest and the Four Corners in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah in the western Rocky Mountains.
At least three of the sites — Stonewall, El Corazon Church in Texas, and the President’s House in Philadelphia — have been compromised by the actions of the Trump administration.
“We want to save these places, not just because bricks and mortar are important but because the stories these places carry are important,” Quillen said.
For the first time since the list debuted in 1988, each signatory on the 2026 list will receive a one-time $25,000 grant to help highlight their connections to the principle that all people are created equal and address the threats they face.
The 11 sites are:
The hotel was a refuge for blacks living under segregated laws in the South. The prolonged vacancy has caused structural deterioration and the surrounding historic Centennial Hill neighborhood is facing pressure from development. The hotel housed key players from the civil rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. The Conservation Fund announced in November that it would help preserve the hotel.
Initially known as the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, it was established as a camp but later became a segregation center where Japanese Americans who were thought to be disloyal to the United States were imprisoned. The site is now a national monument managed by the National Park Service. Only 37 acres of the 1,100-acre site are protected. Most are at risk of permanent change from a proposed nearby building project.
It was the largest immigration port on the West Coast between 1910 and 1940, especially for immigrants from Asia and the Pacific. Hundreds of thousands were processed, detained, and/or interrogated there because of their race. The station is currently threatened by physical, environmental, political and economic factors. Additional funding is needed for structural reforms and programming to raise awareness.
Known as the state’s oldest surviving Quaker meetinghouse, it was built in 1701 to serve as a refuge for a congregation fleeing religious persecution and seeking a safe place to worship. The building has been closed for years and needs major rehabilitation.
Founded in 1921, the association was one of the first black organizations in Detroit to own its headquarters building, which it purchased in 1941. But the building has been closed since 2024, when water pipes burst and damaged the interior. Money is needed to help the association reopen the building.
The landscape is an ancestral homeland that has been maintained for more than a millennium by the Pueblo and Hopi people, but it is threatened by changes in federal land policy that could open up large portions to oil and gas development. Permanent protection and tribal consultation are needed to protect its cultural integrity.
The park tells the story of the first women’s rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, in July 1848. It faces a deferred maintenance backlog of more than $10 million. Additional funding and support is needed to help maintain the park as a place to teach visitors about the history of women’s rights.
America’s first and only national monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ history was the subject of Trump administration actions that led to the Rainbow Pride flag being removed from its flagpole earlier this year before it was restored. The National Park Service removed the flag in February, citing federal directives that limited the agency to displaying only U.S., Department of the Interior, and POW/MIA flags. But the Trump administration reversed course in April when it approved the settlement lawsuit It was filed by advocacy and historic preservation groups that sought to prevent the flag’s removal.
After Trump returned to office, it was over Diversity, equity and inclusion Initiatives, and Many references to transgender people They have been removed from the Stonewall Monument website and materials. Likewise, the Trump administration has put national parks, museums, and monuments under a messaging microscope, aiming to achieve its goals to remove Or change the materials Which you say is “divisive or partisan” Or “inappropriately disparaging Americans.”
The Trump administration abruptly removed exhibits about the lives of nine people who were enslaved at the site in the 1790s under George Washington, the first US president, who lived there when Philadelphia was the nation’s capital. The exhibits were removed as part of a broad effort by the administration to remove the information they see from federal property A “mockery” of the Americans. The issue is currently the subject of a dispute between the city and the federal government.
The Battle of Hanging Rock was a key battle in the Southern campaigns of the Revolutionary War and is considered a patriotic victory that helped boost morale and ultimately weaken British control in South Carolina. Only parts of the core battlefield are protected and open to the public, as the area anticipates population growth and increasing development pressures.
The more than a century old adobe church served as a refuge and place of worship for Mexican and Mexican-American farming communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande River. The building has been vacant since the 1950s, and has benefited from ongoing restoration provided by the nonprofit Friends of Ruidosa Church, but is still threatened by the proposed construction of a U.S. border wall that could be located just a few hundred yards from the property.