The New York Landmarks Conservancy

The Conservancy was founded in 1973 by a small group of architects, lawyers, planners, writers, and preservationists eager to save and reuse landmark buildings. Its early successes include saving the U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green and the Fraunces Tavern block, also in Lower Manhattan, restoring the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, and converting the Federal Archive Building in Greenwich Village to residential apartments and stores. As the Conservancy grew, it developed financial and technical assistance programs that became models and have made it one of the leading preservation groups in the country.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy is the local partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in New York City.