Chesterwood is an Historic Site owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and recognized as a National and Massachusetts Historic Landmark.
As the leading voice for preservation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is the cause for people saving places. Its mission is to protect significant places representing our diverse cultural experience by taking direct action, working with governments to save America’s heritage, and inspiring broad public support to create a cultural legacy that is as diverse as the nation itself so all can take pride in the American story.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded nonprofit organization, works to save America’s historic places as:
The cause that inspires Americans to save the places where history happened.
The cause that connects us to our diverse pasts, weaving a multi-cultural nation together.
The cause that transforms communities from places where we live into places that we love.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation asserts without equivocation:
Black Lives Matter.
Black History Matters.
Historic places of all types and periods should be places of truth-telling and inclusivity.
Historic preservation must actively advance justice and equity for all people.
Historic preservation organizations have an obligation to confront and address structural racism within our own institutions.
We have much to do at the National Trust and in the preservation movement to align our work with these facts, and we must do it—and we will do it—with a sense of urgency.