‘Neglected’: preservation group moves to protect US Latino heritage sites as funding threats loom

Silver Platter, a Latinx LGBTQ+ bar, in Los Angeles, California, in July 2024. Photograph: Eric Lynxweiler

Numerous historic landmarks across the US recognizing Latino history and culture are in danger of being lost forever, according to a preservation group that has published a list of what it finds to be the most vulnerable to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month.

Many of the 13 sites named in the first Latinos in Heritage Conservation study have become rundown or fallen into disrepair through a lack of funds to maintain them, according to the group, which said they were largely “left outside of the mainstream narratives of preservation”.