March 2018
Editor’s Spotlight: Bryan Block
Celebrating his second anniversary as head of the Vieux Carré Commission – the city agency that protects New Orleans’ crown jewel – Bryan Block has worked to expand the VCC’s outreach and ensure that the city’s oldest neighborhood shines for the city’s tricentennial.
The Rise & Fall of the New Orleans Cistern
Dating back to the birth of the city, cisterns could be found in all neighborhoods of the city.
Mid-City Re-Deaux
Ryan Bordenave revives a 1912 Neo-Classical double shotgun house in Mid-City
PRC Welcomes Director Danielle Del Sol
Longtime Preservation in Print editor Danielle Del Sol was selected as PRC’s executive director.
Bouncing Back
An unassuming building on St. Claude, currently under renovation, helped to shape New Orleans’ quintessential bounce and hip-hop sound.
Homer Adolph Plessy & His Mission
The PRC is hosting its 41st Julia Jump on March 16 at NOCCA’s Solomon Hall – an adaptive reuse project of a former warehouse of the East Louisiana Railroad, where Homer Plessy boarded a train in 1892 to challenge the Separate Car Act.