Each year the National Trust for Historic Preservation selects what it considers important examples of the nation’s architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of being destroyed or irreparably damaged. On April 29, 2009 the list was published in the New York Times.
Below are images of the places at risk in the American West:
Mount Taylor in New Mexico, a sacred site for American Indian tribes whose cultural and archaeological resources are threatened by uranium mining.
The hangar for the Enola Gay at Wendover Airfield in Utah. The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
Cast-iron architecture in Galveston, Tex.
The Human Services Center in Yankton, S.D. Founded in 1879 as the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane, the institution’s collection of neo-Classical, Art Deco and Italianate buildings have long stood vacant, and the state plans to tear down 11 of them.
