Saving Places That Matter. Forever.
The Teton Trust for Historic Places works with property owners to permanently protect historic buildings and landscapes through preservation easements, ensuring the places that matter to our community endure for generations to come.
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Your donation ensures the places that matter to our community endure for generations to come.
Historic Preservation — Managing Change
Historic preservation easements are used successfully all over our country, protecting historic places like Pearl Harbor, Ford’s Theater, and Telegraph Hill. Historic easements are not designed to freeze time, but to keep what’s important while a community grows and changes.
In 2020, the Teton Trust for Historic Places was established to hold preservation easements on the three buildings on “The Block” in downtown Jackson, Wyoming. The new Trust was only the second organization in Wyoming with the expertise and experience needed to own and manage such easements and increased the state’s easement total from a single easement to four. Today, Teton Trust holds seven easements in Teton County and is actively working with property owners to preserve more.
“There is a public perception that preservationists want to put everything in a snow globe. That’s absolutely not the direction of our field and hasn’t been for a long time. Instead, preservation is about keeping what’s important from the past in addition to allowing for new growth, change, and the acceleration of a community. “
– Katherine Wonson
Director of the Western Center for Historic Preservation
and Teton Trust for Historic Places Founder and Board Member
