We may live without her and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. We save old buildings because we need to preserve the marks left on our national landscape by the many people who have shaped it. We need our collective memory. This dynamic partnership encourages each generation to utilize the best of contemporary thought and technology without rejecting the history, culture, traditions and values on which our lives and our futures are built. All of us need a place like that - a place where we can have our history close at hand, where we can see it, touch it, learn from it.
Preservation helps that timelessness live in every community in America.