Category: March 2018


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“Beauty Spots” and the making of places

From roughly 1905-1914, The Daily-Picayune published a Sunday illus­trated magazine on smooth finish “calendar” paper. These supplements measured roughly 10 by …

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Four Acres Lost

Motivating Demolitions of the Early 1900s.

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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.

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“Ornaments to the City”

Late Victorian Architecture in New Orleans

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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.

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Mid-City Re-Deaux

Ryan Bordenave revives a 1912 Neo-Classical double shotgun house in Mid-City

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PRC Welcomes Director Danielle Del Sol

Longtime Preservation in Print editor Danielle Del Sol was selected as PRC’s executive director.

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Bouncing Back

An unassuming building on St. Claude, currently under renovation, helped to shape New Orleans’ quintessential bounce and hip-hop sound.

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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.