John Bryan
Channel: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Date: 2014-12-16

Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award

An active preservationist for more than 20 years, John H. Bryan is a hands-on leader who uses preservation as a tool to enhance communities. Bryan has worked to protect threatened places like
Chicago’s Lyric Opera House and Orchestra Hall and Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth House while supporting effective stewardship of historic sites across the country through the creation of the John and Neville Bryan Director of Museum
Collections position at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In addition, Bryan directed the Sara Lee Corporation’s sustained corporate gifts of 20th century art where he oversaw more than $30 million in financial support to museums around the world. John Bryan has made a lasting difference in his home city of Chicago, at the National Trust, and nationwide.