Historic Post Office Buildings

Post offices joined the list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places as a group for the first time. The National Trust for Historic Preservation cited the bureaucratic process for disposing of thousands of post offices, saying developers and community groups interested in rehabilitating the historic buildings end up walking away when they don't get timely or clear answers from the Postal Service.

The annual list of America's most endangered historic places includes a variety of both beloved and obscure landmarks under threat.

“For 25 years, our list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places has called attention to threatened one-of-a-kind historic treasures throughout the nation and has galvanized local preservationists to help save them,” Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said in a news release. “From Ellis Island in New York to Terminal Island in California to the beloved courthouses across the state of Texas, this year’s list reflects the diversity of America, its historic places, and the variety of threats they face. As it has over the past 25 years, we hope this year’s list inspires people to speak out for the important places in their own communities that help to define our nation’s past – and enrich its future.”

Here are the 10 other places on the list, along with the trust's reason for including them.

Get out and see them while you can.

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Bridges of Yosemite Valley, Calif.

A proposed National Park Service management plan for the Merced River, which flows through the heart of Yosemite National Park, would leave three historic Rustic Style bridges in danger of removal despite their significance to the park's treasured landscape.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Lee Rentz)

Ellis Island Hospital Complex, New York Harbor, N.Y. and N.J.

Ellis Island was once known as an island of Hope for immigrants who launched new lives in America, but hospital and support structures on the island -- once comprising the largest U.S. Public Health Service institution -- are now dilapidated and threatened by lack of funding.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Clara Daly)

Joe Frazier's Gym, Philadelphia

The gym where boxing legend Joe Frazier trained for his victorious bout against Muhammad Ali is currently for sale, unrecognized and unprotected by local or national preservation designations.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Ben Leech)

Malcolm X-Ella Little-Collins House, Boston

Built in 1874, this modest structure is the last known surviving boyhood home of Malcolm X. Largely unused for over 30 years, plans are in development to rehabilitate and reuse the deteriorating property as living quarters for graduate students studying African American history, social justice or civil rights.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Steve Dunwell)

Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta

A prime example of the flourishing segregated African-American neighborhoods in the South during the Jim Crow era and birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., it faces disinvestment and inappropriate development along its commercial corridor.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Stan Kaady)

Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles

A major shipbuilding center, the place where America's tuna canning industry came of age, the site of the forced removal of nearly 3,000 Japanese-Americans residents in 1942, and now a popular setting for movie and TV productions, the site is threatened by continued neglect due to long-term vacancy of the historic buildings and a proposed plan that limits reuse of the buildings and, in some cases, calls for their demolition.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/John C. Williams)

Texas Courthouses

Texas' 244 courthouses serve as important architectural and historical records of the state's past. Physical deterioration outpaces the availability of public funds necessary for courthouse restoration and revitalization, and competing needs for limited revenue challenge their future.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Mick Watson)

Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch, Billings County, N.D.

Roosevelt's home in the North Dakota Badlands is threatened by a proposed road and bridge that would forever mar the Elkhorn Ranch landscape and stain Roosevelt's legacy of conservation.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Dickinson State University)

Village of Zoar, Ohio

This 195-year old village in Northeast Ohio was founded in 1817 by religious separatists fleeing Germany. Remarkably intact, it is threatened by the potential removal of a levee that could lead to massive flooding or require demolition of much of the town.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation/Tim Bower)