Richard Campanella

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: Last days of the New Basin Canal

“New approaches from the west — Pontchartrain Expressway,” wrote Robert Moses atop a key section in his Arterial Plan for …

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: a peek at what we lost

“It is our unanimous opinion that this route should follow generally the New Basin Canal…and then continue along a new …

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Innovation in Theaters: the Tulane and Crescent

If ever there was a town made for theater, New Orleans fits the playbill. Its populace, historically and today, seems …

December 2023/January 2024

“The fate of the Villa Saulet,” 270 years of change on Annunciation Street

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

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In Jonesville, a most unusual historical reconstruction

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

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“A scene of tumultuous confusion”: the history of slave auctioning at Hewlett’s Exchange

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

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With yellow fever raging, 19th-century physicians eyed New Orleans’ stagnant canals as sources of disease

The following is an edited excerpt from Richard Campanella’s latest book, “Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the …

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The Villa Era: tracing New Orleans’ history of of sub-rural and suburban retreats

Header image: The Luling Mansion, built in 1866 off Esplanade Avenue, was at the time located in the urban fringe. …

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Necklace without a pendant: the historical geography of the West Bank

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

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A lost “bayou” behind the French Quarter

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

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Between plantations and urbanization, New Orleans’ oft-forgotten truck farming era

This article originally appeared in The Times-Picayune in 2020 and was republished in the November issue of PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. …

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A lost Caribbean aesthetic: enclosed galleries of the French Quarter

Above image: Antoine’s Restaurant previously had an enclosed gallery, as shown here in the 1940s. Image courtesy of The Historic …