Many old buildings and aging neighborhoods across the United States look like they are ready to be torn down and replaced. But the National Trust for Historic Preservation believes that such areas and structures are actually important links to America's past. The National Trust is a private, nonprofit group that works to save America’s historic places. Katherine Malone-France works with the group. She told VOA, “All old places, they have incredible power to bring people together and to provide us with continuity in the stories of who we are and where we want to go.” The National Trust is concerned about an old, unused public housing development in Buffalo, New York. It is called Willert Park Courts. It was the first housing project in the state built specifically for African Americans. The group says another reason to save Willert Park Courts is that many buildings provide an example of early modernism. That kind of building design often shows events from everyday life.
