Category: Preservation in Print

Preservation in Print

Award Winning Preservation Projects

The 2018 Louisiana Landmarks Society Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation honors 22 exceptional projects in New Orleans.

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‘Fourteenth-Century Gothic’ on St. Charles Avenue

James Freret’s Soaring, Short-Lived Old Masonic Temple

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Jefferson Parish Rejects Short-Term Rentals in Neighborhoods

Jefferson Parish adopted an ordinance in

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Free Women of Color in the Development of Faubourg Marigny

Free women of color played an important role in creating the built environment of New Orleans.

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Fresh on the Market

The new Auction House Market emerges in the CBD.

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A Lifeline for Those Who Put Their Lives on the Line

PRC’s Rebuilding Together New Orleans provides critical home repairs for four veterans’ families in need with the help of the Home Depot Foundation.

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Echo’s Pizza Opens in Historic Mid-City Corner Store

Mid-City’s newest neighborhood hotspot has opened in a rehabilitated historic corner store.

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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.