“This year’s America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, released today, offers a few surprises in its 24th iteration. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual list includes a mountain in South Dakota, a Chinatown in California, and jazz artist John Coltrane’s ranch house in New York—as well as “sites imperiled by state actions,” a warning to states that are cutting preservation funding. 

This year, the Trust also introduced a new designation of “watch status” and applied it to the whole city of Charleston, N.C. The Trust says that this indicates that there’s a potential threat to a historic place that can still be prevented or controlled. The organization fears that expanding cruise-ship tourism “could jeopardize the historic character of the city, historic downtown Charleston, and its surrounding neighborhoods.”

Stephanie Meeks, president of the Trust since June 2010, wants the support raised by this list to go beyond the 11 historic sites. “While we hope this list galvanizes support for these 11 endangered places, we also hope it serves as a catalyst for communities everywhere to fight for the irreplaceable landmarks and landscapes that define our past—and enrich our present,” she says.

In the past 24 years, the Trust has named about 264 places as endangered, and of those, only a handful have been lost, it reports.”