The Preservation League of NYS is thrilled to announce its biennial listing of the most at-risk historic sites around the state. The 2025-2026 Seven to Save list includes buildings and landscapes, represents communities both urban and rural, and showcases many eras of our state’s history. The listings themselves are both singular and representative — illustrating pervasive issues impacting not just these sites, but sites like them across the state and beyond.

The Preservation League of NYS drafted a statement decrying recent actions by the federal government to rewrite and censor history, notably by removing all mention of Transgender and Queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website. We aim to show a united front by joining our voice with our colleagues to condemn this erasure — and historic erasure of any kind.

“…in whatever way in your life, in your work, kind of add the lens of language to how you're seeing environments and situations… we live in still a fundamentally multilingual world, very much a multilingual city and state, and of course it can seem like it's a challenge but also it's a huge opportunity — something to kind of embrace and value and wonder at. So I I hope some sense of wonder also kind of emerges through Language City.”