Preservation in Print

Extensive renovation brings the former McDonogh 30 schoolhouse back to life

For decades, the former schoolhouse stood vacant in Mid-City, with boarded windows and a deteriorating brick facade providing a stark …

Advocacy

Lessons from the Edge of America: Association for Preservation Technology 2019

Preservation isn’t an end unto itself; it is better understood as a set of tools. Maintaining, restoring and reusing our …

Advocacy

Hard Rock demolition threatens historic buildings along Canal Street

In yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse at Rampart and Canal streets in …

Preservation in Print

Renovation of Eleanor McMain Secondary School restores Art Deco landmark

This story appeared in the December issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

Preservation in Print

Returning vacant houses to occupancy is one solution to the affordable housing crisis

There may be one on your block: An empty house where the mail once piled up on the stoop. Now …

Preservation in Print

Empty in New Orleans: explore the web map

A recent PRC investigation found more than 6,000 vacant housing units in New Orleans, of which 79 percent have sat …

November 2019

What’s happening? A glance at construction projects around New Orleans

  This story appeared in the November issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like …

Preservation in Print

Hotel redevelopment will soon transform long-vacant upper floors of five historic Canal Street buildings

This story appeared in the October issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

Preservation in Print

What’s happening? A quick glance at construction projects in New Orleans

This story appeared in the October issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

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Sazerac House restores a prominent corner of Canal Street and raises a toast to New Orleans’ official cocktail

This story appeared in the October issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

Advocacy

Pending demolition permits affect historic neighborhoods

This October, while many houses are festooned with cobwebs and skeletons, others have one foot in the grave. The City …

Preservation in Print

Betty Moss, a woman architect in 1960s New Orleans, left her mark on the city

MOD MASTERS LEONARD SPANGENBERG       BETTY MOSS       EDWARD TSOI Learn more about three modernist architects …