The Cultural Landscape Foundation

New Threatened Landscapes Report Will Focus On Erasure Of American History - thank you @ParksTraveler nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/new-th… Know of a threatened cultural landscape associated with American history? Nominate it for this report today.

Erasing American History - Call for Nominations for Threatened Cultural Landscapes - as we near the nation's 250th tangible links to history are being erased - a new report & exhibition will call attention to these sites - details - tclf.org/call-nominatio… @AASLH

Trump Administration To Reverse Chaco Canyon Protections @MTJParks substack.com/home/post/p-19…

Trump Administration To Reverse Chaco Canyon Protections @MTJParks substack.com/home/post/p-19…

Watch this CNN interview with TCLF about the proposed White House Ballroom. CNN White House Reporter Betsy Klein asks TCLF’s Charles Birnbaum about this headline making controversy. cnn.com/2026/04/01/pol…

TCLF's Charles Birnbaum gets the last word in this Washington Post article: "Trump proposes $10B fund for D.C. construction, beautification projects” washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

BREAKING— Today a coalition of eight leading cultural heritage and architectural organizations, jointly represented by three law firms, filed suit in federal district court in Washington, DC to require federal review of Trump’s Kennedy Center plans. culturalheritagepartners.com/kennedy-center/

Just published by @dezeen: "The proposed White House ballroom is wholly incompatible with the site" by @TCLFdotORG's Charles Birnbaum. "Laws and guidelines regarding the grounds are being flouted and ignored." dezeen.com/2026/03/04/eas…

ACT NOW—Public comments about the proposed White House ballroom are due to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) by WED., MARCH 4 AT 12 NOON ET. ncpc.gov/participate/gu… Contact the NCPC today & tell them to protect the White House grounds & to vote against this project

This Russell Page-designed garden near Rome includes 30 "rooms" and is open to the public March 28-October 11, 2026. grandigiardini.it/lang_EN/5268-e…

NEWS: Congratulations to TCLF Stewardship Council Member Christy Ten Eyck (below, top left), Winner of the 2026 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture: si.edu/newsdesk/relea…

Washington, D.C.’s 82-acre President’s Park includes Lafayette Square, the White House and its grounds, the Treasury and Old Executive Office buildings, the Ellipse, and many memorials and monuments. tclf.org/presidents-park

#Denver's 20-acre Commons Park lies just north of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the Platte River, a landscape significant as a historic gathering place for Native American tribes and the location where gold was discovered in 1858. tclf.org/commons-park

Access the guide here: tclf.org/places/city-an… #BlackHistoryMonth2026

REGISTER NOW - FREE WEBINAR FEB. 19 4PM ET - Hear an invigorating & revelatory conversation with the winner of the global Oberlander Prize, Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan, & Oberlander Prize Curator Elizabeth Mossop & Jury Chair Claire Agre: tclf.org/virtual-oberla…

BIG NEWS - It has taken more than 200 years, but the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have finally reclaimed the Nikwasi Mound in Franklin, NC tclf.org/landslide-upda…

The Public Art Advocacy Fund launched one-year ago today and is needed more than ever. Ned Smyth’s “Upper Room” at Battery Park City was leveled this past Nov. & yesterday the SF Bd of Supervisors approved removal of the Vaillancourt Fountain. More here: tclf.org/new-public-art…

“Sunshined” (aka FOIA'd) info about San Francisco's threatened Vaillancourt Fountain yielded this exchange between a city contractor & city employee; so, what don’t they want the public to know. Read more here: tclf.org/new-informatio… @RecParkSF @BXPSF @bobmcmillan

Nearly 97% of the letters (32 of 33) to the Board of Supervisors, in advance of today’s meeting, support the Vaillancourt Fountain/oppose removal/demolition. sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&… @sfbos

What does this SF city official not want made public? And is a city contractor helping her? New information raises transparency issues in Vaillancourt Fountain debate tclf.org/new-informatio… @RecParkSF @sfbos @DanielLurie @CCSFundraising @traviscarley