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Orleans Parish School Board Explores Community Uses for Surplus Property

The Orleans Parish School Board is proposing a new approach to the system’s handling of vacant land and buildings. By …

Uncategorized

PRC calls on legislators to support African American Burial Grounds Act

The Preservation Resource Center has asked U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy and U.S. Rep. Troy Carter to co-sponsor …

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PRC remembers C. Elliott Perkins V, a caring preservation leader

The Preservation Resource Center joins with many in the New Orleans preservation community in mourning the loss Charles Elliott Perkins …

In The News

PRC mourns passionate preservationist John Geiser III

The people who battled for St Charles Avenue 50 years ago didn’t know they would win. One of them was …

Preservation in Print

Renovation brings “updated-yet-classic” center hall design to 1880s home

Photos by Jeff Strout Visit this historic home and other fine examples of New Orleans’ beloved shotgun houses at the …

Preservation in Print

An 1890s “double shotgun” becomes a spacious family home

Photos by Jeff Strout Visit this historic home and other fine examples of New Orleans’ beloved shotgun houses at the …

June 2022

Renovation adds living space to shotgun home while preserving historic details

Photos by Liz Jurey Visit this historic home and other fine examples of New Orleans’ beloved shotgun houses at the …

Preservation in Print

Shotgun house renovation builds a connection between old and new

Photos by Jeff Strout Visit this historic home and other fine examples of New Orleans’ beloved shotgun houses at the …

Preservation in Print

Renovated shotgun becomes a gingerbread-trimmed home for growing family

Photos by Jeff Strout Visit this historic home and other fine examples of New Orleans’ beloved shotgun houses at the …

Preservation in Print

Historic Hales Cottage on Children’s Hospital campus featured on PRC’s Shotgun House Tour

Photos by Chris Granger Signed copies of the book, The Cottage on Tchoupitoulas, published by the Preservation Resource Center in …

Preservation in Print

PRC congratulates the 14 winners of the Louisiana Landmarks Awards

Work to restore and renovate historic buildings has continued during the pandemic, even as the economy has suffered through the …

Preservation in Print

Uptown’s oldest cottage chronicled in new book

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