WASHINGTON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
1204 MINOR AVENUE, SEATTLE, WA 98101 www.preservewa.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: THE WASHINGTON TRUST HELPS MAKE LOCAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION WORK. WE BUILD AN ETHIC THAT PRESERVES WASHINGTON'S HISTORIC PLACES THROUGH ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, COLLABORATION AND STEWARDSHIP.

In 2019, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation transitioned from announcing an annual Most Endangered Places (MEP) list to maintaining one ongoing list, comprising all active campaigns with new campaigns added throughout the year as needed. We announced these updates at our annual fundraiser, Vintage Washington, which was held on May 18 at the Sand Point Naval Air Station Landmark District, located within Magnuson Park in Seattle. The event brought 150 guests to tour the district and dine in a historic hangar. In addition to naming the Marine Supply Block in Anacortes to the list, several community partners from past Most Endangered Places campaigns were on hand to attest to the programs role in helping save threatened historic sites. In June, we announced the addition of The Showbox, a well-loved, live performance venue in Seattle, to the MEP list.Through our 2019 Sivinski Fund, the Washington Trust continued to provide modest but meaningful grants to assist with local preservation projects around the state. $10,000 was awarded to eight organizations across the state, including $1,500 awarded to the San Juan Historical Museum in Friday Harbor to replace the cedar shingle roof on the James King Farmhouse. Recipients of the 2019 Sivinski Fund grant awards were publicly announced in December 2018 at the Trusts annual Holiday Benefit held at the Stimson-Green Mansion.In 2019, we did not hold our annual RevitalizeWA conference but instead co-hosted the National Main Street Conference, in partnership with the National Main Street Center. In March, we served as co-hosts for the national conference in Seattle, which marked the first time the conference had taken place on the West Coast in more than 10 years. The 2019 conference was attended by more than 1,800, making it the best-attended to date.In July of 2019, we held our eighth-annual Youth Heritage Project for high school students, which took place in Olympic National Park (ONP) and addressed the overlap between protecting the Parks natural, historic, and cultural resources. Through site visits, case studies, guest speakers, and group discussions, our 45 student participants from around the state wrestled with how to define and balance these different and sometimes competing priorities within public lands, using ONP as a real-world case study. As our culminating activity, students presented their recommendations during a Town Hall-style meeting in downtown Port Angeles. With generous funding from the National Park Service, the Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation, and 4Culture Sustained Support, among others, we again offered this program free of charge to both students and teachers.In 2019, we continued in our multi-phase capital campaign to restore and preserve the Mansion and adjoining Carriage House. Major 2019 accomplishments include completion of Mansion plumbing repairs, additional bathroom restoration, replacement of the parlor carpet, the completion of renovations to the Carriage House in partnership with new tenant Birch Road Cellars, and fundraising for the final phase of our capital campaign, the masonry repairs slated take place in spring/summer 2020.For more than a decade, the Trust had worked with Washingtons maritime heritage community to achieve a new designation for Washingtons maritime resources as a National Heritage Area, stretching along Washingtons saltwater coastline from Grays Harbor County to the Canadian border. The goal was to tell the story of our regions maritime history and current maritime industries and ways of life. In February 2019, this long fight for designation achieved a stunning victory when Congress passed the John Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act, the largest public lands bill in over a decade. The Act included the official designation of the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area (MW-NHA) and named the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation as the local coordinating entity for the program.

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