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BY Nicole Gates Anderson

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Since President Trump returned to office, some of the nation’s best-known historic sites, from the White House’s ill-fated East Wing to the imperiled Kennedy Center, have come under attack, prompting preservationists to sue. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, has been a central player in these prominent cases.

Preservationists are gearing up for a prolonged legal fight to safeguard not only the landmarks themselves but the foundational protections of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), passed in 1966. The law was a response to the wave of urban renewal in the 1950s and ’60s, including the controversial razing of New York City’s Penn Station, that wiped out historic buildings across the country.…