National Trust Announces 2009 List of Endangered U.S. Historic Sites

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its latest list of a dozen endangered places, reports USA Today. Among them are the Utah hangar that housed the Enola Gay Hiroshima bomber; the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple outside Chicago; and a New Mexico mountain sacred to 30 Native American tribes but threatened by uranium mining.

The 2009 roster was announced yesterday by the National Trust’s president, Richard Moe, and the actress Diane Keaton at the Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel, which also made the list. According to The New York Times, the choice represents the trust’s effort this year to highlight the threat to modernist structures.

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