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Preserving Our Heritage

The Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation Inc., was founded in 1998 by a dedicated group of volunteer preservationists who recognized that a private, non-profit organization is able to quickly stabilize and secure endangered properties in many situations where public agencies and advocacy groups cannot. 

We encourage you to join us. Our focus is protecting and preserving endangered landmarks — and nobody does it better. The Trust has saved dozens of historic buildings, and with your participation and support we will be able to save ever more of Kentucky’s architectural heritage. 

We welcome partnerships with community groups and individuals to find solutions for endangered landmarks in your community.

Please contact us to learn how you can join the Trust, and get involved to help save our historic places.  


We Save Places That Matter 

Our preservation successes include buildings in every region of the Commonwealth. From historic log cabins, farm houses, cemeteries and even a former Kentucky Governors home, we save historic places that matter to the people of Kentucky. Please Join us and help us save even more of Kentucky’s diverse heritage.

The Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation is a 501(c)3 corporation as identified by the US Federal Department of Treasury 
EIN: 61-1328391

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Visit us again soon for our new website, filled with new and expanded information, programs and places. In the meantime, please provide us feedback as we develop our efforts for 2023 by taking a short survey here: Take the survey

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We rely on our members across the Commonwealth to help save our shared heritage, please join us and so that together we can do more together.

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Contact

Po Box 1112

Frankfort, KY 40602-1112

eric@thekentuckytrust.org

502-320-9735

Cemeteries are a tangible connection to our shared heritage. This project at the Frankfort Cemetery has been a decade in the making and a continuation of another project from 20 years ago. Thank you to John Appell of Atlas Preservation for reconstructing the Trabue Vault from the original collapsed building materials. Janet and Eric Thompson for underwriting the project and the Daughters of the American Revolution for granting funds to support this work. Phase one is completed and the progress amazing. Our Commonwealth’s namesake theater in Lexington now 100 years old. Opened October 4, 1922. Some 20 years in process, the restoration of the c. 1850 Trabue Vault at the Frankfort Cemetery is one of our latest preservation projects made possible with the generous support of Janet and Eric Thompson, Janet is a Trabue descendant, and a grant from the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, and the hard work of John Appell and Marc Ormerod of Atlas Preservation. Our founder Bob Polsgrove was a driving force in saving an area of Clark County that is now Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve. Yesterday, more than 25 years since Bob’s efforts helped spur the preserve, the Kentucky Trust revisited for a guided hike in the beauty of the fall. We were honored to witness a significant private donation made in Bob’s honor yesterday for his work in helping establish Lower Howard's Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve. Thank you to our guide and to everyone who attended to learn about this important historic place. Join the Kentucky Trust and make a donation to help fill the coffers for even more transformative preservation work! Membership link in our bio. Join the members of the Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation for a Historic Hike of Lower Howard's Creek. November 6, 2022. We want to extend a very special thank you to our supporters who make our important work possible. And a very special thank you goes to our donors supporting our 2022 Summer Supper sponsors, including our title sponsor Kirkpatrick & Co., and to our Ashland Dinner sponsor Bluegrass Sotheby's International Realty, Kentucky Auction House and everyone, we thank you for your support in helping us preserve, protect and promote our Commonwealth's historic places! Don't miss our second summer supper next week at Farmington Historic Plantation, limited tickets still available at the link in our bio. On behalf of our Board of Directors, Thank You to everyone who attended our Summer Supper at the historic Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate on July 15. We greatly appreciate our guests, volunteers, our collaborator and helpful staff of Ashland, and our wonderful caterer Spark Community Café. Don't miss the next dinner on August 5th at Farmington Historic Plantation. Tickets available at the link in our bio. Join the Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation for our Summer Supper at Farmington Historic Plantation. A sumptuous dining experience at multiple historic sites around our Commonwealth each summer. You don’t want to miss this opportunity. Tickets are selling fast, reserve yours now at the link in our bio.