The Edgar Allen Poe cottage in the Bronx is just one of 1,132 projects funded by Save America's Treasures.

The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) is the new non-profit partner of Save America's Treasures www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures (???Treasures'). AAF will work with the National Park Service and its other partnering agencies (National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services) to increase public understanding of the program. ???Treasures' funds projects to rescue, preserve and conserve our nation's most significant cultural, intellectual and heritage resources.

"From the ???Star Spangled Banner' that flew above Fort McHenry, to Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Save America's Treasures has protected more than 1,100 of the places and objects that define who we are as Americans," explains Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service. "With the assistance of the American Architectural Foundation, we will tell the great stories of our nation as illustrated through these places and things in a way that we have previously not had the time nor resources to do," he added.

"The structures, landscapes and artifacts that Save America's Treasures has helped to preserve, restore, or protect embody our collective identity," said Ron Bogle, president and CEO of the AAF.

Established in 1999, ???Treasures' is one of the largest and most successful federal grant programs. The program requires a dollar-for-dollar match. From 1999 to 2009, Congress appropriated $293.7 million, which went to 1,132 projects. ???Treasures' reports these grants have leveraged more the $377 million in private investment and contributed more than 16,000 jobs to local and state economies. No new grants have been funded since 2009, however, although175 grant projects are still in progress, and the program will remain active until 2017.