Richard Campanella

Preservation in Print

How the geography of historical architecture influences pedestrian movement around the French Quarter

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

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How New Orleans handled an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1914

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

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How “Keeping up with the Pontalbas” sparked a decorative ironwork trend in 19th-century New Orleans

This article is an edited version of the author’s “Geographies of New Orleans” column that first appeared in the New …

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Completed in 1860, the Central Congregational Church was demolished in 1935 and seemingly forgotten

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

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The multiple narratives of the Belle Chasse Plantation House

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

November 2019

Before I-10, the New Basin Canal flowed through New Orleans

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

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The fiery birth and demise of the Verandah Hotel

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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Louis Sullivan’s sophisticated Union Depot welcomed train passengers to New Orleans for more than 60 years

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

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Devastating fires in New Orleans’ history sparked shrewd revitalization

This is an edited version of the author’s “Cityscapes” column that first appeared in NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune  on Jan. …

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The “Three Sisters of Rampart” once stood where a parking lot sits today

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

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Gothic castles of the Crescent City

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

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The geography of the shotgun house

This article appeared in the March issue of Preservation in Print, originally appearing in the author’s “Cityscapes” column on NOLA.com …