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Save America's Treasures is dedicated to identifying and rescuing the enduring symbols of American tradition that identify us as a nation.
Honor the past, imagine the future.
Save America's Treasures is a public-private partnership between the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Save America's Treasures Project
The Save America's Treasures program has three major objectives:
To stabilize those tombs in a critical emergency condition
To complete a model restoration of a typical tombscape
To provide local training in masonry preservation
The Save America's Treasures (SAT) project is under the direction of Frank Matero, University of Pennsylvania, Ann Masson, Assistant Director, and Dorothy Krotzer, supervising architectural conservator. The SAT project team includes Laura Ewen, Lindsay Hannah, Heather Knight, and Sophie Middlebrook, conservation assistants; Pietro Mangarella and Kecia Fong, conservators; Royal Osborne and Raphael Perrault, masons; Shelby Jones, assistant mason, Anthony Henderson, Patricia Hulin, and Jim Jenkins, artisans; Dan Brown, landscape services, Laurence Saltzman, documentary photographer and Judy Peters, Architectural Conservation Research Center support.
Project funding is provided by Save America's Treasures, Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., Archdiocesen Cemeteries of New Orleans, University of Pennsylvania and Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Tombs & Markers
Project Work