The Eleven Most Enhanced and Eleven Most Endangered Lists
The National Trust for Historic Preservation compiled its first list of America's Eleven Most Endangered Places in 1988. A call to action, the tally was designed to demonstrate the diversity of the nation's imperiled historic resources and to identify the variety of threats that plague them. In 1992, Landmarks Association decided to follow the Trust's lead, but limit our eleven examples to properties located within the boundaries of the city of St. Louis. Although the Trust issues a new list each year, we made the decision to keep a building on the list until it is either saved or razed.
In 1996, Landmarks inaugurated a ceremony honoring the city's Eleven Most Enhanced Places. Designed to balance the yearly endangered roll call, most of our enhanced awards have gone to outstanding rehabilitation projects. A few, however, have recognized notable additions to historic buildings and/or new buildings that respected but did not mimic an historic context. All of them have been a boon to the local economy. With costs ranging from $500,000 to $36 million, the eleven projects from 2007 contributed a total of $129,400,000. The cumulative figure since 1998 when we started keeping close tabs is an astonishing $1,434,032,000!
Past Years
Most Enhanced 2006
Most Endangered 2006
Most Enhanced 2005
Most Endangered 2005
Most Enhanced 2004
Most Endangered 2004
Most Enhanced 2003
Most Endangered 2003
Most Enhanced 2002
Most Endangered 2002
Most Enhanced 2001
Most Endangered 2001
Most Enhanced 2000
Most Endangered 2000
Most Enhanced 1999
Most Endangered 1999
Most Enhanced 1998
Most Endangered 1998
Most Endangered 1997