NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) – The only grand hotel that remains on the state’s Seacoast has won a national award.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation gave the Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel and Spa the National Preservation Honor Award at its annual conference last week.

The hotel was the first ever to be featured on the trust’s list of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places in 1996. It had fallen into disrepair and was threatened with demolition, and several plans to restore it fell through.

But the trust worked with a local group, Friends of the Wentworth, to get funding and find a developer who would restore the hotel appropriately. It reopened in 2003 and is now owned by the Marriott chain.