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Category: Preservation in Print

Main Street America resource team members pose outside a brick building in Winnfield, Louisiana, after completing strategic planning work in fall 2025.

Preservation in Print

Jumpstarting Main Street Revitalization

Designated Louisiana Main Street communities are receiving much-needed support for revitalization efforts through recent legislative appropriations. In fiscal year 2024-25, …
A turquoise New Orleans shotgun house with ornate gingerbread trim, barred windows, and a decorative front door.

Preservation in Print

Culture Needs a Home 

New Orleans’ 7th Ward was once a multigenerational nucleus of Creole families. Traditions lived in the daily rhythm of the …
Julia Segui Alabau sits in a chair knitting, with a large pig puppet beside her in a shop filled with textiles and furnishings.

Preservation in Print

Within These Walls: Julia Segui Alabau of 835-837 Wilson Drive

On Feb. 13, 1946, in a bungalow nestled in the Parkview neighborhood, a woman long accustomed to the hustle and …
Historic aerial photograph of New Orleans showing the Mississippi River, downtown skyline, the Crescent City Connection, port facilities, and surrounding neighborhoods viewed from above.

Preservation in Print

Richard Campanella’s Streetscapes: Patchwork of Plans 

Cities, like our personal lives, often end up a patchwork of plans woven together amid the vicissitudes of history, sometimes …
Four colorful New Orleans doors illustrating how print, social, video, and audio each contribute different forms of storytelling, with labels reading “gives us depth,” “gives us momentum,” “gives us emotion,” and “gives us intimacy.”

Preservation in Print

The Front Door Is Everywhere: How PRC Is Expanding Its Storytelling

A magazine arrives quietly. It slips into a mailbox, lands on a coffee table, waits on a kitchen counter and …
A woman smiles while standing in an office beside a table covered with architectural plans and drawings.

Preservation in Print

Director’s Spotlight: The City We Cannot Afford to Lose 

When World Monuments Fund invited nominations for Irreplaceable America, a campaign connected to the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
Historic double shotgun house at 2522 Chartres St. in New Orleans, featuring a pale yellow facade, green brick porch columns and steps, decorative arched doorways, and a front porch.

Preservation in Print

Within These Walls: John August Abadie of 2522 Chartres Street 

On Oct. 21, 1947, all American flags in New Orleans flew at half-staff by order of the mayor. August and …
A crowd gathers at the corner of Oak Street and Carrollton Avenue for the dedication of the new Oak Street Historic District plaque. A speaker addresses attendees beside the marker while neighbors, preservation advocates, and community members look on. The historic commercial corridor and surrounding buildings frame the event, celebrating the neighborhood's architectural and cultural heritage. Photo by Richard Campanella.

Preservation in Print

Richard Campanella’s Streetscapes: Oak Street, A History

“Today, Oak Street retains the feel of a small-town main street.” So reads the closing line of the historical plaque …
Black-and-white portrait of a smiling accordion player wearing a brimmed hat and embroidered shirt while holding and playing an accordion.

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I’m a Preservationist: Bruce Sunpie Barnes

When Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes talks about New Orleans, he does not speak in straight lines. He speaks in rhythm, memory, …
Map titled "Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans," created by B. Lafon in 1816, depicting the early city, the Mississippi River, adjacent neighborhoods, and a legend of important sites.

Preservation in Print

The Longest Line New Orleans Forgot 

The tallest building ever constructed in New Orleans is the Hancock Whitney Center, at 697 feet. Completed in 1972, it …
Historic Victorian home with intricate gingerbread trim, a corner turret, and wraparound porch behind an iron fence in New Orleans, with a "Calle de San Carlos" plaque in the foreground.

Preservation in Print

A French Quarter tile tradition moves up St. Charles Avenue 

A wall that speaks Spanish  On St. Charles Avenue, amid live oaks, streetcars and the long procession of houses that …
The empty floor of the Municipal Auditorium stretches toward rows of red and blue arena seats beneath a vast, deteriorating ceiling. Large sections of acoustic ceiling panels are missing, ornate Art Deco chandeliers still hang overhead, and debris litters the floor, illustrating the severe deterioration of the long-vacant historic venue.

Preservation in Print

New Orleans’ Long Intermission 

Head through the freight entrance — the same path elephants trod when they lumbered into Municipal Auditorium to cavort in …