Preservation Resource Center

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS OCTOBER 2007 

P R E S ERVAT I O N 

VOLUME 34 NUMBER 7 

LOUISIANA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE 

IN PRINT 

PRC Partners with Restore Media’s Traditional Building 

Show to Turn a Disaster into a Dream House

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EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Fitzpatrick 

DEPUTY EDITOR AND WEBMASTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alexander Lemann 

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pamela Breaux 

ADVERTISING MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jackie Derks 

KIOSK EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sarah Bonnette 

TYPOGRAPHY & DESIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Typosition, Paula Coughlin 

LITERARY SALES MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Averil Oberhelman 

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS 

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patricia H. Gay 

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brandi Couvillion 

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beverly R. Lamb 

PRESERVATION IN PRINT EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Fitzpatrick 

REBUILDING TOGETHER DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kristin Gisleson-Palmer 

This project is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts. 

This project has been financed in part with federal funds from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 

through the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily 

reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial 

products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior. This program received federal 

financial assistance for identification and protection of historic properties. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act 

of 1964 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the U. S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination 

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VICE PRESIDENT 

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LETTERS 

Thank you for the recent cover 

story in Preservation in Print, “The 

greenest house is one already built.” I 

agree 110 per cent and hope the 

green building movement sees the 

logic in this axiom. 

The quantity of natural resources, 

industrial processes, transportation, 

fuel, and other inputs involved in new 

green-building construction oftentimes 

offsets, to a significant degree, future 

incremental savings on utilities. 

Installing green technologies on existing 

structures -- particularly historical 

ones -- makes more sense. 

People seem to forget that buildings, 

as well as cars and machines, 

don’t just consume natural resources; 

they comprise them. 

Richard Campanella 

(Dr. Campanella is the assistant director of 

the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at 

Tulane and Xavier Universities, research professor 

with Tulane’s Department of Earth 

and Environmental Sciences, and author of 

Geographies of New Orleans) 

GRAND MERCI to the Preservation 

Resource Center for its excellent 

September issue, highlighting the fact 

that “GREEN” is really timeless, not just 

the latest trend. PRCNO’s post-Katrina 

response to the rebuilding challenge in 

New Orleans was quick and effective 

in terms of disaster response, with 

mold and cleanup issues being just the 

beginning. PRCNO’s five-part workshop 

series on Energy Efficiency with 

the Louisiana Department of Natural 

Resources (LDNR) was very helpful, 

and the fact that Operation Comeback 

is now integrating “green” and energy 

efficiency techniques and materials 

more explicitly in its ongoing renovation 

work is truly encouraging. These 

concepts are continually being streamlined 

into the daily practice of contractors 

and consumers in the New 

Orleans area, as they become more 

easily available in the marketplace. 

Every day, advances are being made 

on various fronts, giving hope that 

more of our truly unique and irreplaceable 

existing housing stock will survive 

– not only Katrina and its aftermath, 

but the moisture threats to historic 

homes from their own air-conditioning 

systems. While many big challenges 

remain, and much needed local building 

science research has yet to be 

done, the tireless years of work by 

many in the fledgling home performance 

industry in New Orleans seem 

finally to be coming to fruition, as the 

“tipping point” has been crossed, 

making “green” mainstream. Thanks 

to all at PRCNO and elsewhere who 

have gotten us this far, and best wishes 

on the road to greater accomplishment. 

Audrey Evans 

Extension Energy Specialist 

LSU AgCenter 

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ON THE COVER: 

Portrait of a House by Brandi Couvillion. 

Photographs of 4804 Dauphine St. by 

Alex Lemann and courtesy of Traditional 

Building Show and Operation Comeback. 

PRESERVATION 

PRC IN ACTION 

IN PRINT 

VOL. 34, NO. 7 OCTOBER 2007 

CONTENTS 

Sign of Strength: PRC Brings Back Rebuilding Together’s October Building Days Jon Skvarka . . . . . . . . 6 

Rebuilding Together Thanks Local Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

PRC’s Rebuilding Together: Solidarity Not Charity Jon Skvarka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Stained Glass Art in Sacred Places: Old Friends and New Patty Andrews and Harriet Murrell . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

PRC Welcomes 19 New Movers and Shakers to Its Dedicated Staff Alex Lemann and Jon Skvarka . . . . . . . . 16 

Operation Comeback and Traditional Building Show Team Up on Holy Cross Demonstration House Maryann Miller . 22 

PRC to Launch New Book November 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 

American Express Donates Portion of Credit Card Sales to PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 

Major Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

Save The Date for Holiday Home Tour December 8-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

Mignon Faget’s Newest AdornAment Benefits PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 

New Orleans Saints Honor Rebuilding Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 

FEATURES 

Born to Build: Fostering the Architectural Trades in New Orleans Jennifer Farwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Stalking Trash: Home Décor in a Post-Katrina World Mary Fitzpatrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

Jackson Barracks: On the Edge of New Orleans, an Antebellum Gem in Need of Repairs Alex Lemann . . . . 36 

NEWS AND VIEWS 

Gardening in the City: From Baton Rouge to Bywater Jennifer Farwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

COLUMNS 

Notes from a Newcomer Alex Lemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

KIOSK Sarah Bonnette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 

The mission of the Preservation Resource Center: 

To promote the preservation, restoration and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic architecture and neighborhoods 

Preservation in Print welcomes your letters and comments, mfitzpatrick@prcno.org 

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Volunteers from Shell and the Junior League of New Orleans have been leaders in RT’s October Build Project for many years. This year they were joined by students 

from LSU Medical School for four days of rebuilding at 3706 and 3739 General Pershing St. in the Broadmoor neighborhood. The actual labor followed many 

months of planning by RT, the Broadmoor Improvement Association, the Junior League and Shell. 

Sign of Strength: PRC Brings Back 

Rebuilding Together’s October Building Days 

by Jon Skvarka, Rebuilding Together 

photos by Mary Fitzpatrick 

PRC’s Rebuilding Together – dedicated to 

revitalizing neighborhoods and assuring that 

elderly and disabled homeowners and first 

responders can live in warmth, safety and 

independence – has completed 51 total renovations 

and now has 46 in progress. 

his October, by popular 

demand, RT and New Orleans 

Tmetropolitan area corporations 

are re-launching the annual community 

revitalization effort. For the first 

time since Katrina, local volunteers 

will help rebuild their neighbors’ 

homes and make the October Build 

Project a yearly occurrence once again. 

Twenty groups are working on 18 houses 

in RT’s target neighborhoods – 

Broadmoor, New Marigny (Faubourg 

St. Roch), Holy Cross, Hollygrove, 

and Treme. More than 560 people are 

participating, and many pre-Katrina 

teams are back. 

For two years the annual Rebuilding 

Together October Build Project was on 

hold. The terrific local volunteers – 

who had built the yearly project from 

373 volunteers painting and repairing 

10 homes and one school in 1988 to 

more than 2,000 volunteers rehabbing 

68 homes in 2004 – needed time to 

focus on restoring their own homes and 

lives. In the meantime, a steady flow of 

volunteer teams from across the United 

States came to New Orleans and helped 

RT get more than 100 families back 

into their flooded homes. 

MEET TWO FAMILIES 

Diane Peterson has lived in 

Hollygrove her entire life. She worked 

in a bank until retirement and now 

spends her time playing the organ, 

piano and keyboard for her local 

church. Ms. Peterson also has an amazing 

array of choir robes in her attic 

which she sold to various churches 

throughout the city before the storm. 

When Katrina hit New Orleans, Ms. 

Peterson and her husband, Charles 

Gray, evacuated to Texas and then 

Port Hudson. Their one-story home 

sustained seven feet of water, wind 

damage and vandalism. They had 

many fixtures stolen and found evidence 

of squatters in their attic. They 

lost almost all their belongings. Since 

Hurricane Katrina, they have also suffered 

physical hardships. Ms. Peterson, 

60, suffers from cancer and lung disease, 

and Mr. Gray, 67, has terminal 

cancer. When they heard Mr. Gray’s 

doctors had returned to New Orleans 

they hurried back in December 2005. 

They had to use their small flood and 

homeowner insurance remittance for 

medicine. Currently renting a home on 

the Westbank with Ms. Peterson’s 85- 

year-old mother, they stay positive and 

have faith that one day they will move 

back to their beloved Hollygrove 

neighborhood. 

Across town in the Holy Cross 

neighborhood the RT October Build 

Project is working on the quaint home 

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PRC’s Rebuilding Together New Orleans 

Thanks Our Local Sponsors 

Who Are Rebuilding Their Own City, 

Neighborhood-by-Neighborhood, 

Broadmoor 

Folgers Coffee 

Company 

Junior League of 

New Orleans 

Latter & Blum 

Shell 

LSU Medical School 

Faubourg St. Roch 

CUPASA 

Kean Miller 

Hawethorne 

D’Armond McCowan 

& Jarman 

Louisiana Peace Corps 

USDA-SRRC 

of Veronica and Norman Nolan, who 

have been married for 23 years and 

raised three children. Mrs. Nolan 

worked at Charity Hospital as a 

Medicare/Medicaid bookkeeper and 

Mr. Norman was a welder for Avondale 

shipyards. Members of Saint David 

Catholic Church, the Nolans regularly 

House-by-House 

Holy Cross 

Adams & Reese LLP 

Countrywide 

Home Loans 

Pepsi 

Tulane Medical School 

U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers 

Hollygrove 

Bourgeois Bennet LLC 

Trinity Christian 

Community 

Tulane University 

Tremé 

Chevron 

Enterprise 

Liberty Mutual Group 

Office Depot 

Waldemar S. Nelson 

attend community meetings and social 

functions, and Mrs. Nolan volunteers 

for projects around Holy Cross. They 

evacuated to Shreveport, La. for eight 

months after the storm and then 

moved into their daughter’s New 

Orleans home. The Nolans, like so 

many families dislocated by the hurricane, 

have also endured harsh personal 

trials. Mr. Nolan suffered a stroke and 

is now wheelchair bound. Through it 

all, they have continued to believe in 

the power of community and hope to 

live out their retirement in the home 

and neighborhood they adore. 

The October Build Project shows 

the strength of the homeowners, the 

local sponsors and PRC’s Rebuilding 

Together program. If your company, 

civic group, church or association 

would like to plan now to participate 

in the 2008 October Build Project, 

please contact svissar@prcno.org. 

PRC’s Rebuilding Together 

Solidarity Not Charity 

text and photos by Jon Skvarka, Rebuilding Together New Orleans 

V.P.’s and account managers were among the 

60 leaders from Sun Life Financial’s national 

offices who descended on Treme for two days 

to paint, scrape, repair and rebuild the homes 

of a retired nurse and a school cook. 

A 

fter a hard morning’s worth of 

work on two homes on North 

Dorgenois St., volunteers 

from Sun Life Financial, a leading 

international financial services organization, 

and staff from PRC’s Rebuilding 

Together New Orleans took a break to 

grab some water and boxed lunches. 

They lined the nearby sidewalk, talking 

with the homeowner and discussing 

what needed to be done in the 

afternoon. Behind them sat signs with 

inspiring words like faith and strength, 

painted in yellow, red and black. The 

last sign was smaller and had a different 

message than the others: “solidarity 

not charity.” 

At first, like most people who saw 

it, I believed the sign had a negative 

connation, pronouncing that the 

neighborhood itself should rebuild 

without the “charity” of outsiders. But 

by the end of the build days, I realized 

it can have a positive meaning, regardless 

of its original intent. Rebuilding 

Together is not about granting charity, 

with one group reaching for a handout, 

rather it is aid to those who have 

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1740 North Dorgenois, volunteers from Sun Life begin to build a fence behind 

Ms. Leona Grady’s home. 

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Ms. Jane Ross, the owner of 1739 North Dorgenois St, shares a laugh with 

Camille Lopez, assistant director of PRC’s Rebuilding Together New Orleans, and 

a Sun Life volunteer. 

continued from page 7 

dedicated their lives to strengthening 

their community. 

The Sun Life group included more 

than 60 volunteers from nationwide 

offices of the global insurance company. 

During the year, they are regional 

vice presidents and key account managers, 

but on August 8 and 9, they 

became scrapers, painters, and laborers 

for Rebuilding Together New Orleans. 

Over the course of the two days, the 

two houses received an overdue overhaul. 

For the volunteers, the hard work 

was a rewarding and worthwhile experience. 

“This was a great opportunity to 

roll up our sleeves and do hands on 

work,” recounted Sun Life volunteer 

Bruce Jones. “We all appreciated the 

neighborhood approach of Rebuilding 

Together . . . it was also an opportunity 

to get to know my coworkers better.” 

The Sun Life volunteers constructed a 

wheelchair ramp, built a fence, 

installed cabinets, painted the interior 

of one house and the exterior of the 

other, and finished numerous other 

projects that brought the homes closer 

to being whole again. And the homeowners 

were grateful for all that they 

had accomplished. 

Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Jane 

Ross, 81, lived at 1739 N. Dorgenois 

and 80-year-old Leona Grady resided 

across the street. Ms. Ross had been a 

school cook in Metairie and Ms. Grady 

was a nurse at a clinic in New Orleans. 

Neither had enough money to finish 

all the house repairs necessary after the 

storm. Ms. Grady, who suffers from 

Alzheimer’s disease, hired a contractor, 

but he took her money, left the electrical, 

plumbing and siding incomplete, 

and exposed her house to the weather 

and looters. 

Although the two neighbors faced 

substantial adversities, they were hopeful 

and positive throughout the 

rebuilding process. Ms. Ross was at the 

jobsite most of the two days while Ms. 

Grady stopped by for only a short time 

due to her health. “Both families were 

wonderful to meet and made it clear 

that they appreciated our efforts very 

much,” said Kathy Sarvary, vice president 

of sales management/operations 

and one of the Sun Life leaders who 

made the decision to come to New 

Orleans. “Ms. Ross . . . was a genuinely 

gracious lady. Ms. Grady . . . appeared 

to be overwhelmed (in a positive way) 

with what was going on. I think the 

pure emotion of seeing all the people 

working on her home was just what 

the doctor ordered.” 

Most volunteers learned that the 

homeowners, instead of being 

victims with their hands out, 

have done all they could do 

themselves to rebuild their 

homes and communities. 

It was not only the homeowners, 

however, who received a boost. The 

volunteers took away a new view of 

New Orleans and its residents. Most 

volunteers learned that the homeowners, 

instead of being victims with their 

hands out, have done all they could do 

themselves to rebuild their homes and 

communities. Ms. Ross and Ms. Grady 

are active members of their church and 

Sun Life volunteers prime Ms. Ross’s house for a new paint job. 

their community and passed their 

sense of civic responsibility to their 

children as well. Ms. Ross’ daughter, Jo 

Thomas, works with the homeless and 

displaced and said that her experience 

with them humbles her and makes her 

count her blessings everyday. Her 

house was destroyed during the storm 

in New Orleans East and she has no 

place to call her own, but she feels 

blessed through the support of her family 

and friends. 

Hearing the stories of adversity told 

by Ms. Ross and her family with no 

complaint in their voices, gave the 

Sun Life volunteers perspective on the 

importance of rebuilding New Orleans. 

“The rebuild effort is grass-roots, 

focused on ‘one family at a time,’” 

Savary said. “We need to help build on 

that momentum . . . thousands of families 

are counting on us.” 

They also took away a respect for 

what organizations like PRC’s 

Rebuilding Together New Orleans are 

doing for the city. “There is an incredible 

level of dedication among the 

RTNO group for the rebuilding cause 

and they bring a passion to the project 

and a passion for New Orleans,” said 

Jones. Sarvary agreed: “total pros, they 

turned the experience into a memory I 

will keep for a lifetime.” 

After two days of work, two houses 

moved closer to becoming homes again 

and 60 volunteers became advocates for 

New Orleans. It was through “solidarity,” 

not just a group of people, bounded 

by geographical divides, but a broad 

community of interests and responsibilities, 

that led the Sun Life group to help 

rebuild two homes hundreds of miles 

away. It is this solidarity that will hopefully 

motivate the people needed to 

rebuild New Orleans, no matter where 

they hail from. And as for charity, 

spend a few hours with some of 

Rebuilding Together’s homeowners and 

you will come to understand that they 

are not helpless victims, but the foundations 

on which families and neighborhoods 

will rebuild. 

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Stained Glass Art 

in Sacred Places: 

Old Friends and New 

by Patty Andrews and Harriet Murrell 

Stained glass windows can be like old friends: an 

integral part of childhood memories, colorful teachers, 

distractions during long sermons, and posers of 

lingering questions. Sometimes, like treasured 

friends, windows move to new homes. 

The fall 2007 Stained Glass 

Art in Sacred Places tour 

will visit two churches in 

Metairie and will renew 

friendships with the windows 

from Bywater’s Holy Trinity Catholic 

Church. The latter have found a new 

home in La Place. Mark your calendar 

for Sunday, November 11, 2:00-5:00 

p.m. 

The Ascension of Our Lord 

Catholic Church in La Place will be 

the newest church on the tour, but its 

Holy Trinity windows date to about 

1873. Although the original parishioners 

of Holy Trinity Church spoke 

German, the windows were made in 

Clermont, France. After Holy Trinity 

closed for lack of parishioners in 1997, 

the Attenhofer Stained Glass Studio 

removed the windows and put them in 

storage. When the pastor of Ascension 

of Our Lord Church heard about these 

treasures, he asked that the design of 

his new church be altered to accommodate 

them. As was the case at Holy 

Trinity, Old Testament figures line the 

left side of the church facing Christian 

saints on the right. 

St. Edward the Confessor Catholic 

Church was named for a king known 

for his generosity to the poor, King 

Edward of England. His crowning in 

TOP: King Edward and his wife, 

Queen Edith, known for their generosity, 

are portrayed giving alms to 

a beggar in a window at St. Edward 

the Confessor Catholic Church. 

Windows originally in Holy Trinity Catholic 

Church in Bywater feature Old Testament 

figures Moses and Aaron, among others. 

They have found a new home in Ascension 

of Our Lord Church in La Place. 

BOTTOM: King Edward, who also 

built Westminster Abbey, distributes 

money to lepers. The windows at St. 

Edward the Confessor Church are of 

dalle de verre, or faceted slab glass. 

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Questions: Call 504/636-3040 

Woodville Antiques Show and Sale 

featuring over 20 dealers from across the South! 

November 9, 10, and 11, 2007 

★ An historic tour of the Lewis home, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Sturgeon 

★ Richard Scott’s culinary lecture at Woodville Presyterian Church 

★ A cocktail buffet with live entertainment at Indian Fields Plantation 

★ A dinner at the Parish Hall and the grounds of historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 

★ An exhibit of quilts by Mississippi women 

The Woodville Antiques Show and Sale is generously supported by: 

Town of Woodville, Bluffs and Bayous, 

Concordia Bank and Trust, Country Roads, 

Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty, 

Entergy, European Antique Auction Gallery, 

Showroom Antiques/Nana’s Guest House, 

Treppendahl’s Super Foods, United Mississippi Bank, 

Wilkinson County Industrial Development Authority 

Sponsored by the Woodville Civic Club, Inc. 

a nonprofit community project to benefit the Wilkinson County Museum and African American Museum 

St. Jerome in a stained glass window at 

Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church 

in La Place. St. Jerome is often pictured 

with a lion, as legend tells that he 

pulled a thorn from the foot of a lion. 

1042 is the subject of Ruth Goliwas’s 

mural welcoming worshipers to the 

church. The stained glass, designed by 

Ars Liturgica of Morris Plains, New 

Jersey, was produced in Italy in 1982. 

The major windows portray events 

from the New Testament and from the 

life of King Edward. Swirls of color 

unify the windows aesthetically and 

are seen, in a more subdued form, in 

the wire-and-faceted-stone Stations of 

the Cross. The daily chapel, added in 

2000, houses two dalle de verre windows 

that were repaired after 

Hurricane Katrina by Cindy Knezeak, 

a member of the tour committee. 

St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church 

was founded as a missionary outreach of 

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in 1954. 

The sanctuary, begun three years later 

and renovated in 2002, is uncluttered, 

Word Play: The word INRI, “Jesus of 

Nazareth, King of the Jews,” is written 

twice in this window at St. 

Augustine’s Episcopal Church. 

warm and welcoming. Its stained glass 

windows were designed by Waynaka 

West Manning and made by Ann 

Pettus Sale, both parishioners, in 1982. 

They will challenge viewers to identify 

all the religious symbols. Paintings by 

local artist Raymond Calvert, in the 

style of Russian Orthodox church art 

with gilt highlights, complement the 

understated tone of the windows. 

As always, this Stained Glass Art 

in Sacred Places tour will be a bus 

adventure, with explanations by committee 

members and, hopefully, professionals 

involved in designing the 

Ascension of Our Lord Church. A 

reception will follow. 

The tour will start and end at St. 

Augustine’s Church. Parking is available 

on Green Acres Road, one block 

lakeside of Veterans Boulevard (behind 

the large McDonald’s restaurant). The 

bus will leave at 2:00 sharp. 

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Master plasterer Earl Barthé stopped by the PRC with board member Jonn 

Hankins shortly after being honored in Washington, D.C., as a National 

Heritage Fellow and testifying before Congress that New Orleans after Katrina 

needs to preserve what it has and train young people in the building trades 

“because this [rebuilding] is going to go on for years.” Pictured here with PRC’s 

Averil Oberhelman. 

Born to Build: Fostering 

the Architectural 

Trades in New Orleans 

by Jennifer Farwell 

Some of the names – 

Barthé, Pierre, 

Broussard, and Pichon – 

roll like French silk over 

our tongues. Others, like 

Fredericks, Pieri, 

and DiPascal suggest 

the German 

and Italian 

colonists who settled 

long ago on our 

coasts. Even with 

their differences, all 

these names share a common 

legacy – an association 

with the traditional 

building trades. 

There are many other family 

names, as well, that follow us 

through history and time. 

These, the highly skilled 

artisans and crafts people 

who literally built New Orleans, have 

presented us with the greatest of gifts. 

Their talents have given us the architectural 

bounty of this city – the elegant 

plaster 

and 

painted 

embellishments 

that still 

grace 

many 

walls and 

ceilings; 

the proud 

ironwork 

Teddy Pierre worked 

that encircles 

both 

with PRC’s education 

department to show 

public and 

grade schoolers the art 

private 

of masonry. 

buildings; 

the intricate 

brick walkways and fountains that 

adorn our gardens. 

Yet, even as we admire the beauty 

Artist Chamain DiPascal O’Mahony relaxes on the porch her master-carpenter 

father designed and helped build. 

of a hidden piece of scrollwork or a little-noticed 

tile design, we must appreciate 

that the future of this heritage is 

far from assured. The ravages of time 

and modernization are rapidly eroding 

not only the ornamentation we often 

take for granted, but also the staying 

power of the traditional building trades 

themselves. 

A FIRM FOUNDATION 

Master plasterer Earl Barthé can be 

a soft-spoken man of few words, yet his 

voice resonated with the power of conviction 

recently when he addressed 

attendees at a Louisiana Creole 

Research Association conference. 

“In the Seventh Ward, the families 

trained their children to build their 

own houses, then they went around 

the neighborhood to build each other’s 

houses,” Barthé told the assemblage. 

“You’d build your foundation, and then 

would come the neighbors – the lathers, 

the plasterers, the carpenters – to 

help you finish your home.” 

Barthé, a fifth-generation Creole 

plasterer and a celebrity of national 

stature in architectural circles, is a passionate 

and vocal advocate of the 

architectural trades. He speaks of his 

frustration with the lack of enthusiasm 

today’s youth feel for these pursuits – 

and his determination to change their 

minds. “The art is lost now, and I am 

trying to bring it back,” he says. Barthé 

has succeeded in inviting some of his 

children and grandchildren into his 

world, and he hopes to open an 

apprenticeship school in the next few 

months. “I want to educate these children 

that they can create something 

beautiful and make a very good living 

doing it.” 

ENGAGING OUR YOUTH 

Theodore “Teddy” Pierre, Jr., a second-generation 

master brick mason, is 

a former deputy director of the 

Historic District Landmarks 

Commission and the third African- 

American to graduate from Tulane’s 

School of Architecture. He followed 

his father into the masonry trade, he 

says, because “I didn’t want other people 

to have all the fun.” 

Since May, Pierre has been working 

to restore and preserve the brickwork 

on the side of the Lanaux Mansion at 

Esplanade and Chartres. Despite the 

project’s size (3,000 square feet), he 

works alone because he cannot find 

helpers who appreciate the delicate 

nature of the task. Built in 1879 by 

Charles Andrew Johnson and currently 

owned by Ruth Bodenheimer, the 

museum-quality, Italianate mansion 

retains nearly all of its original interior 

and exterior ornamentation. “I don’t 

want the building to be disrespected,” 

Pierre says. 

Nevertheless, Pierre shares Barthé’s 

resolve to foster support for architectural 

trades. “I have a hole in my soul 

because I am not conveying one bit of 

what I know, or what I do, to a single 

person,” Pierre laments. While studying 

at Tulane, Pierre began devising 

ways to engage the younger generation 

in the traditional building trades. He 

wrote a paper envisioning a Center for 

the Preservation and Propagation of 

Quality Crafts in New Orleans 

Architecture, and later created a pilot 

cultural enrichment program, Treasures 

on the Banquette. There, he encouraged 

children and teens to discover the 

hidden delights in brick sidewalks 

while teaching them to discern 

between Greek Revival, Gothic 

Revival, and Romanesque architectural 

styles. 

A LOSING BATTLE? 

Both Barthé and Pierre have been 

thwarted in their efforts by a shortage 

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Master mason Teddy Pierre works to restore the brick exterior of the Lanaux 

Mansion at 547 Esplanade Street. 

of funding, especially in New Orleans’ 

cash-strapped, post-Katrina landscape. 

Another major problem, Pierre says, is 

getting kids to care. “We need an 

advertising icon – like Joe Camel – to 

kindle interest in and respect for the 

architectural crafts. I want our youth 

to appreciate and love the world I live 

in, where there is beauty around every 

corner.” 

Jeff Treffinger, an architect who is 

president of the New Orleans Crafts 

Guild and comes from a long line of 

master carpenters, questions whether 

that’s possible. “We may be seeing the 

end of the Creole tradesman tradition 

that built this city,” he says. “These 

traditions were family taught or 

learned in Vo-Tech programs in the 

public schools that have since been 

discontinued. Today, you can put a 

child or teenager in front of a 65-yearold 

plasterer who has more talent in 

his little finger than most of us have in 

our whole bodies. Because they aren’t a 

basketball star or a multi-platinum 

record artist or they don’t drive around 

in a big ride, the kids say, ‘Why should 

I listen to him? What’s he got to show 

for it?’” 

“I don’t want it to be true,” 

Treffinger continues, “and I am certain 

there are 50-100 kids in this city who 

would bite on the idea of learning 

these trades, but who funds it? Who 

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coming from a man whose guild’s mission 

is “to forge a new generation of 

master craftspeople, dedicated to revitalizing 

and rebuilding the neighborhoods 

of New Orleans,” yet many in his 

industry admit the words may be true. 

“It’s clear that we haven’t moved 

forward enough to get young people to 

see these trades as a viable career 

path,” says Walter Gallas, head of the 

National Trust for Historic 

Preservation’s field office in New 

Orleans. “When you are one of these 

artisans, you have to have an eye for 

detail and design and a knowledge of 

geometric principles and physics. 

You’re not just slinging a trowel.” 

MODEST SUCCESS 

Treffinger and Pierre say their 

biggest success came during a summer 

internship program, on which they collaborated 

with the Preservation 

Resource Center. “Students from 

Orleans Parish schools constructed a 

30-by-7-foot wall for the restoration of 

the Kid Ory house,” says Treffinger, 

“and we brought in guest lecturers to 

educate them about architectural 

styles. We made a documentary of the 

process that aired on Cox for two 

years. These kids were mini-celebrities, 

and they started getting dates.” 

“Our program would work very well 

as a NOCCA [New Orleans Center for 

Creative Arts]-type institution. The 

idea is to give people the skills they 

need to get their lives together and 

support their families, and in doing so, 

renovate these blighted house.” 

Nevertheless, there is “a great resistance 

on the part of the local population 

to reengage in these trades,” 

Treffinger adds. “I am not sure that is 

where this city sees its sons and daughters 

going.” 

FAILURE TO APPRECIATE 

Exacerbating the problem, 

Treffinger and others say, is a lack of 

appreciation by the public for the skill 

involved in this work. In a world of 

cheap drywall, ready-made cabinets 

and inadequate preservation tax credits 

for residential properties, it can be 

hard to convince homeowners to bear 

the expense of restoring original 

details. 

“Creole Cat” artist Chamain 

DiPascal O’Mahony, whose secondgeneration 

master-carpenter father, 

Guy, helped renovate and expand her 

early 1920’s Old Jefferson home, 

agrees. “My Dad was a stickler for the 

As part of PRC’s renovation of the former Central City home of jazz legend Kid 

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Orleans Craft Guild. Teddy Pierre guided the students to rebuild a fallen brick 

wall behind the house. 

era. He built the windows and the cabinets 

and the panels for the screenedin 

porch,”she says of the additions. 

“People said we were crazy to spend all 

that time and effort just to make it historically 

right, but we couldn’t have 

done it any other way.” 

Since her father died in March 

2006, O’Mahony has been looking to 

put the family’s West Bank woodworking 

shop to good use, perhaps to give 

New Orleans residents a place to work 

on projects of their own. “It’s a way for 

the tradition to continue,” she says. 

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PRC Welcomes 19 New 

Movers and Shakers to Its Dedicated Staff 

Kim Bookless 

Administrative 

assistant to 

executive 

director 

ule and take over administrative tasks 

so she can focus on leading PRC’s varied 

programs.” Kim has also begun 

keeping a journal about her life here, 

something the trained writer and communications 

specialist regrets not starting 

when she first arrived. 

Laura 

Gennings 

Development 

database 

manager 

Emily 

Swanson 

PRC 

Advocacy 

Department 

volunteer 

After graduating with a degree 

in communication from 

Ohio University, Kim 

worked with McGraw-Hill 

in Columbus, Ohio for five 

years, lived briefly in Chicago and 

moved to New Orleans in February 

2006 with a friend who works as a photojournalist 

for CNN here. “I knew 

almost nothing about preservation 

before I moved to New Orleans,” she 

admits, but now architecture, American 

history, jazz, neighborhood preservation 

and Creole culture fascinate her. Since 

coming to the PRC a few months ago, 

she has been reading and taking courses 

and has become dedicated to this historic 

city, which is vastly different than 

the small town in Ohio where she grew 

up. “I feel at home in New Orleans. 

Living here has changed me forever,” 

Kim says. “I feel so fortunate to have 

the opportunity to work at PRC. I like 

the organization’s amazing ability to 

blend preservation and on-the-ground 

rebuilding with advocacy at the city, 

state and federal level and individual 

assistance for New Orleans residents. I 

am in awe of everyone here and marvel 

everyday at the energy, dedication and 

perseverance our staff shows. I want to 

use my organizational skills to help 

manage our executive director’s sched- 

Anna Justice 

Bullock 

Assistant 

director of 

development – 

membership 

coordinator 

Anna, a native of Pawleys 

Island, S.C., moved to 

Algiers Point with her husband 

in the middle of July 

after two years in Boston. 

With an undergraduate degree from the 

University of North Carolina at 

Greensboro in trumpet performance 

and a budding passion for fundraising, 

she decided to attend Boston 

University, where she earned a Master’s 

degree in arts administration and a 

Certificate in fundraising management 

while working full time as a development 

associate at the Harvard Catholic 

Student Center in Cambridge, Mass. 

She says she loves her new job at PRC 

and finds it very “refreshing to work 

with really passionate people who are 

definitely having a profound influence 

on the neighborhoods of New Orleans.” 

As a newlywed, she enjoys spending 

time with her husband, who is an officer 

in the U.S. Coast Guard, and learning 

about the city’s rich culture. 

Laura was born and raised in 

New Orleans and has lived 

here all her life, first Uptown 

and more recently in New 

Orleans East. Miraculously, her 

house didn’t flood, but it did suffer 

extensive wind and tornado damage. 

She temporarily relocated to 

Lawrenceville, Ga., where she worked 

in data entry for the Lawrenceville 

Medical Center. Laura finally moved 

back home about a year after the storm 

and worked for a time as assistant manager 

in a Slidell restuarant. She heard 

about the PRC through a friend from 

her church, Abundant Life Tabernacle. 

“I was always into history and homes,” 

Laura says, “so working here at the 

PRC has been really interesting.” 

Jennifer Lang 

PRC 

Advocacy 

Department 

intern 

Originally from Houston, 

Jennifer moved to New 

Orleans a week before Katrina. 

She is finishing a Masters 

degree in urban and regional 

planning at UNO, with a concentration 

in historic preservation. Jennifer has 

helped PRC track down people whose 

homes are on the City’s demolition list 

and then send hundreds of demolition 

notices to owners dispersed around the 

country. Many of these homeowners 

had no idea their house was about to be 

demolished until the PRC notification, 

so Jennifer’s efforts have been instrumental 

in stopping unnecessary demolitions 

in the historic districts. Jennifer’s 

house in Houston has been flooded by 

two tropical storms, but the New 

Orleans home where she moved just 

before Katrina was spared. 

Originally from Nebraska, 

Emily moved to New 

Orleans 11 years ago after 

falling in love with the city 

on a business trip and has 

lived here ever since. Emily has been 

working with the PRC Advocacy and 

Squandered Heritage teams to help get 

properties off the City’s demolition list. 

Her accomplished computer skills have 

been a great asset and her determined 

but friendly telephone manner has 

been crucial in updating information 

from neighborhood associations, whose 

grassroots efforts are essential in 

rebuilding the city. 

Since graduating from Northern 

Arizona University, Emily has worked 

as a licensed Realtor, property adminstrator 

and as an advocate in a rape 

and abuse program. 

Linda 

Pelicano 

Rebuilding 

Together 

accountant 

Linda was born and raised in 

Houma and graduated from 

Nicholls State University in 

Thibodeaux with a degree in 

accounting and business administration. 

She has worked as an accountant 

in many different industries, including the 

funeral business, catering and advertising. 

Linda and her husband own Fastway 

Drywall & Renovations and L & T 

Development. She learned about historic 

preservation through their work on French 

Quarter and Uptown renovations, plus 

buying and restoring an Irish Channel 

property and selling it to young homeowners. 

“Our own historic renovation proved 

to me the value of renovating old buildings 

and turning them into someone’s home,” 

she says. “Because of this I was encouraged 

to apply for a job at PRC. What I really 

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find interesting about working here is 

being with others who value restoring a 

home instead of tearing it down.” Linda’s 

home in Bucktown took on about two feet 

of water after Katrina, even though they 

live on the Metairie side of the 17th Street 

Canal. She and her husband quickly 

rebuilt their home, as well as many of their 

neighbor’s houses. “I think the PRC is an 

important place to be right now. My husband 

and I are also working on a music 

preservation project,” she says. “It’s been 

non-stop since the storm.” 

Case was born in Phoenix, 

Ariz., but his background 

includes stints in a range of 

cities, from Juneau, Alaska, 

to Hattiesburg, Miss., where 

he got a Master’s degree in English from 

the University of Southern Mississippi (he 

also worked his way through college as a 

plumber). Case had never lived in New 

Orleans before he moved here just after 

Katrina in October 2005, but he visited 

often: “I’d been sticking my nose in people’s 

business here for a long time, if you 

know what I mean.” When he arrived in 

town, Case became a social worker, a job 

he found emotionally trying in the post- 

Katrina environment. Working for RT, he 

says, is “like construction with a human 

angle, almost a combination of being a 

plumber and a social worker.” Case settled 

immediately in Bywater, first in an abandoned 

house, then in his truck, then a 

boarding house, and finally an apartment 

in the famous “Two Sisters” shotgun house. 

If pressed, Case is always more than willing 

to put his English degree to use waxing 

poetic about Markey’s, his favorite bar. 

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Case 

Miller 

Construction 

manager 

Coming to New Orleans from Across the U.S. to Help Rebuild the City 

PRC’s Rebuilding Together Welcomes 12 Enthusiastic 

and Dedicated Young Leaders with Americorps 

AmeriCorps VISTA: Defined as 

“capacity building” positions, these 

employees work in the PRC office to 

increase funding, volunteer outreach and 

public awareness of RT’s major role in 

rebuilding New Orleans. They are often 

referred to as “VISTA.” 

AmeriCorps: Also known as 

AmeriCorps Direct, these new staff 

members work directly in the community 

repairing houses and managing volunteer 

teams. 

Laura 

Faubion 

Program 

manager 

Having recently finished her 

service term with 

AmeriCorps, Laura wanted to 

serve New Orleans further 

and chose to become the 

AmeriCorps program manager with 

Rebuilding Together. Born and raised in 

Amarillo, Tx., Laura has a Masters in 

public administration from Angelo State 

University. She served as an AmeriCorps 

volunteer with Catholic Charities 

Operation Helping Hands gutting houses 

for the past year. “A crazy desire to help” 

led her to New Orleans and motivates her 

to keep providing aid to those in need. 

After her work with Rebuilding Together 

she hopes to travel and “escape to a 

national park somewhere.” For now, she is 

content to spend her time managing the 

AmeriCorps members of Rebuilding 

Together and riding her bike and walking 

her dog around New Orleans. 

Liana 

McGowan 

Grant writer 

and resource 

development 

officer 

A2007 graduate of Tulane 

University, Liana joined 

AmeriCorps VISTA to help 

with the rebuilding process of 

her “true home.” Liana grew 

up in Palo Alto, Calif., but after being 

here a few years, she fell in “love with this 

city and can’t imagine doing anything 

else with my time that doesn’t involve 

rebuilding NOLA and making it better 

than ever. Having grown up in the technological 

boom in the heart of Silicon 

Valley, I saw very early how skewed people’s 

views were about having money,” she 

says. “Seeing that, I wanted to do all I 

could to fight poverty.” As the Grants and 

Development VISTA for RT, she is working 

to build capacity through grants, inkind 

donations, and other development 

projects. Married in Las Vegas on the 

luckiest day of the millennium, 7-7-07, 

Liana loves second lines, brass bands, and 

working on her 1957 Chevy Bel Air. She 

is excited to be working with RTNO and 

helping the New Orleans’ community 

whenever the opportunity arises. 

Jon 

Skvarka 

Information 

and research 

officer 

Originally from Bradford, 

Penn., Jon first came to 

New Orleans during a 

spring break volunteer trip 

in March 2006. After a 

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Orleans and Jon was hooked. Two of 

his favorite activities are “seeing live 

music and doing as much stuff as possible 

for free.” New Orleans, he says, has 

lived up to his expectations admirably 

in both areas. For Jon, working as a 

VISTA for the PRC presents an opportunity 

to improve his writing while 

also helping the people of New 

Orleans, a rare and exciting combination. 

Although Jon’s car was broken 

into his first week in the city, he says 

he has gotten over it, and he’s now 

busy exploring his new home. 

Michael 

Wackenreuter 

Community 

outreach and 

public relations 

officer 

Michael is from Essex, Conn. 

and a recent graduate of 

Tulane University. Sitting 

at home, trying to figure 

out the next step in his 

life, Michael saw the VISTA position 

with RT as an ideal way to gain work 

experience and help the city he loves. 

Making certain that the public knows 

about the mission and work of RT, 

Mike advocates for rebuilding issues 

within New Orleans and across the 

country. An avid Red Sox fan, he does 

not know what is next after his VISTA 

year, but he is content now to help the 

city rebuild and “eat all the delicious 

food” while residing in New Orleans. 

Sean 

Vissar 

Volunteer 

program 

officer 

Hailing from Grand Haven, 

Mich., Sean is a recent graduate 

of Grand Valley State, where he 

earned degrees in international 

relations and Spanish. Sean 

came down to New Orleans to explore all 

the city has to offer and “preserve the style 

and history of one of the most cultured 

cities in the U.S.” After his year-long service 

as an AmeriCorps VISTA, Sean plans 

to continue working in the non-profit sector 

and eventually head to graduate school 

to study medical or law interpretation. 

Cambria 

Martinelli 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

Cambria Martinelli was born in 

Orange County, Calif., but has 

spent time in Georgia and 

Massachusetts. A 2005 graduate 

of Gordon College in 

Massachusetts, she was the program and 

events coordinator at the University of 

Virginia’s Leadership Development Center 

as a member of a post-grad Fellows 

Program. Cambria sees the work she does 

with RT as a “privilege . . . that will hopefully 

lead to the revitalization of more 

than the structures of a city, but also its 

culture, people and heritage.” She hopes 

to work and connect with the homeowners, 

watch them experience the joy of 

moving back home, and enjoy “the occasional 

privilege of some home cooked red 

beans and rice.” In moving to New 

Orleans “indefinitely,” Cambria is looking 

forward to dedicating her life to rebuilding 

and developing New Orleans and becoming 

more involved in the community after 

her ten-month stint with AmeriCorps. 

Robert 

Preston 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

Robert Preston comes to RT 

from Chico, Calif. 

Graduating with an environmental 

geography degree 

from Chico State, Robert 

spent the last year as an AmeriCorps 

VISTA with Rebuilding Together 

Phoenix. He joined as an AmeriCorps 

Direct member (to work directly in the 

field) because he felt he had a civic 

responsibility to help rebuild New 

Orleans, liked to work on old homes 

and it was “less paper work than being 

a VISTA (who work in the office to 

build capacity).” After his time at RT, 

he has numerous plans including 

“going back to school, owning a construction 

company, and starting a nonprofit.” 

Single and searching, he hopes 

to help revitalize New Orleans while 

sparking a romance in the process. 

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Sean 

Mickelson 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

with many 

affinities,” Sean 

Mickelson grew up in 

Newington, Conn. He is 

“Aconnoisseur 

a recent graduate of 

Bentley College and was led to New 

Orleans by civic responsibility, the 

city’s history and music and “the search 

for construction knowledge.” He looks 

forward to enjoying all the city has to 

offer while participating in the rebuilding 

process. Sean hopes to travel after 

his work with RT, but before he leaves, 

he wants to learn the recipe for the 

“chicken salad sandwiches served at 

the Preservation Resource Center.” 

Chris 

McDowell 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

pleting his term of service with 

AmeriCorps. For now, he enjoys “sitting 

on the porch and talking with friends” 

and all the eats at the Parkway Bakery. 

Thomas 

Smith 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

Aresident of Rochester, N.Y., 

Thomas became an 

AmeriCorps Direct out of 

his “fear of cubicles and a 

strong desire to help out 

with something architecturally-related.” 

He is a recent graduate of Syracuse 

University and received a bachelor’s 

degree in architecture. Recognizing the 

need for “direct help for marginalized 

homeowners,” Thomas sees the next 

ten months as an opportunity to give 

back while gaining knowledge about 

construction and experience working 

with volunteers. Building off his undergraduate 

degree and his AmeriCorps 

service, he plans to become a licensed 

architect. Already a fan of WWOZ, he 

loves the music and food of New 

Orleans and is excited to meet new 

people during his time in the city. 

rebuild the city he fell in love with 

after visiting it. Born and raised in 

Woodmere, N.Y., he was a film student 

at the New School in New York City 

before heading to New Orleans. 

During his time with AmeriCorps, he 

looks forward to working with volunteers 

on houses and see the “smiling 

faces of the homeowners” as they move 

back home. Matthew does not know 

what is ahead after his term of service, 

happy to take in New Orleans one day 

at a time. 

Hannah 

Wilentz 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

Unlike her fellow 

AmeriCorps Directs, 

Hannah decided to gain 

volunteer experience before 

she headed to college. 

Raised in Princeton, N.J., she was 

accepted to Columbia University this 

spring, but decided to defer for a year 

while she worked to revitalize New 

Orleans. She wanted to work with RT 

because she “loves old houses and 

knows how important it is to return 

people to the homes they grew up in.” 

Hannah hopes to help the homeowners 

and learn from them as well: “You 

can learn a lifetime of wisdom just sitting 

and eating lunch with a homeowner. 

Despite everything they’ve 

gone through, everyone I’ve encountered 

has been overwhelmingly generous, 

open, and kind.” With a genuine 

love for the city and its people, she 

looks forward to impacting and being 

impacted by New Orleans before she 

starts her freshman year at Columbia. 

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Born and raised in Birmingham, 

Ala., Chris has been coming to 

New Orleans since he was a 

child. After graduating from the 

University of Cincinnati, with a 

degree in urban planning, he chose to 

work as an AmeriCorps Direct to live 

closer to family and friends and help 

revitalize the city that he has a great deal 

of respect for. Chris had already worked 

with the Preservation Resource Center 

through Operation Comeback and is 

happy to be working with PRC again. He 

hopes to earn a graduate degree in landscape 

architecture from LSU after com- 

Matthew 

Newman 

AmeriCorps 

Direct 

Wanting to go beyond just 

donating money, 

Matthew chose to 

become an AmeriCorps 

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From Baton Rouge 

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Garden Blooms 

text and photos by Jennifer Farwell 

Twenty-five years ago, if you’d asked former 

Baton Rouge Camellia Society president Will 

Mangham if he’d be planting a garden in New 

Orleans this year, he probably would have 

laughed. The 81-year-old, life-long gardener 

and former marketing director at Rosedown 

Plantation and Gardens has been a fixture of 

the Baton Rouge gardening scene for decades. 

A 

fter Katrina, Will Mangham 

and his wife Eda decided to 

join their daughter Cam in 

New Orleans, where they bought a 

restored Bywater home. Cam 

Mangham and her partner, Shea 

Embry, are the power behind the 

mixed-use Bywater development 

ICInola, and Mangham wanted to support 

those efforts. He says his decision 

was based on confidence that the city 

– like a newly planted camellia – will 

thrive given the right encouragement. 

“I believe in this city. You cannot kill 

its spirit,” he says. 

One of Mangham’s first tasks was to 

plant citrus trees and camellias – two 

favorites for historic gardens – in the 

yard at his new home on Mazant St. 

With the optimal late fall planting season 

nearly here, we asked him to share 

his selections with those who might be 

considering a citrus or camellia garden 

of their own. For citrus, Mangham 

says, the decision is easy, as certain 

trees are particularly suited to New 

Orleans’ climate. For his garden, he 

planted one each of Meyer lemon, 

loquat, kumquat, Ruby Red grapefruit, 

Variegated lemon, satsuma (of course) 

and lime. (The lime tree, Mangham 

says with a twinkle in his eye, “is for 

gin and tonics.”) 

The selection of camellias is more 

personal, he says, because so many of 

these plants do well in our climate. 

“Rosedown Plantation and Gardens, 

which is known for its beautiful plantings, 

still has many of the azaleas and 

camellias imported for the original gardens,” 

Mangham notes. “There is a 

150-year-old 

Alba Plena 

camellia 

growing in St. 

Francisville.” 

All of 

Mangham’s 

camellias are 

japonica, 

bush-form 

shrubs that 

generally 

bloom later 

than the 

camellia 

sasanquas we 

often see 

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Gardener Will Mangham, who relocated to New Orleans from Baton Rouge, 

recently planted his camellia garden in Bywater. 

trained into 

tree form in 

the city. His 

all-time 

favorite camellia japonica is Drama 

Girl, which he says has a “gorgeous, 

six-inch, peachy-pink bloom.” Here 

are Mangham’s picks for his camellia 

garden – and for yours. 

Alba Plena: One of the earliest 

camellias to reach the U.S. (1792), no 

modern camellia has equaled the popularity 

of this sentimental favorite. Its 

medium-sized, formal double blooms 

appear in late fall or winter. Its graceful 

upright form makes it a versatile 

choice for any location. 

Debutante: Originating in 

Charleston, S.C. around the turn of 

the century, Debutante offers large, 

pink, peony-form flowers that begin 

early and continue into midseason. 

The shrub is vigorous and blooms are 

abundant. 

Drama Girl: One of Mangham’s 

few modern selections, Drama Girl features 

enormous, deep salmon-rose, 

semi-double blooms. Its flowers and 

stature mimic the dramatic designs of 

the 1950s – the era in which this 

showstopper was 

born. Growing 

up to 15 feet 

tall, this beauty 

needs plenty of 

room to display 

her charms. 

Masterpiece: 

An excellent 

choice for fans 

of white gardens, 

Masterpiece 

offers very large, 

white formal 

flowers, oversized 

foliage, 

and very large 

flower buds. It’s 

a mid-season 

charmer whose 

blooms often grace Christmas landscapes. 

Pink Perfection: Popular as a boutonniere 

flower for Victorian gentleman, 

Pink Perfection came to the U.S. 

in 1875. The small, clear pink, double 

formal flowers bloom abundantly over 

a long season. Sturdy growth is an 

Alba Plena is one of the world’s most popular 

and beloved camellias. 

added bonus. 

Purple Dawn: Featuring large, 

rose-form double crimson blooms with 

an intriguing purplish cast, Purple 

Dawn is a vigorous, carefree, late-season 

bloomer developed in Charleston 

in the 1840s. It has a slow to moderate 

growth rate and compact (six-eight 

feet) habit. 

Other camellias botanists and garden 

experts recommend for New 

Orleans include Diakagura (very early 

bloomer), Colletti Maculata (early 

bloomer), Professor Charles S. Sargent, 

Governor Mouton, Herme, Rose 

Dawn, and Prince Eugene Napoleon 

(all mid-season bloomers). The last 

four in this group are heirloom. Use 

them in combination with Mangham’s 

heirloom selections for a garden of historic 

proportions. 

During planting and establishment, 

remember that camellias like welldrained 

soil, rich in organic material. 

Water is critical during their period of 

establishment, after which they can 

often survive periods of reasonable 

drought, especially if their roots are 

covered with a thick layer of mulch. 

Camellias thrive and bloom best 

when sheltered from full sun and drying 

winds. However, many camellia 

plants can take full sun once they are 

mature enough to have their roots 

shaded by a heavy canopy of leaves. If 

you are interested in learning more 

about camellias, consider joining the 

Camellia Club of New Orleans, which 

is based in Metairie. 

Camellias have been a favorite of 

gardeners in the south – and New 

Orleans – for over two hundred years. 

They were a favorite of acclaimed local 

writer Francis Parkinson Keyes, who 

frequently included descriptions of 

their beauty in her stories of New 

Orleans.


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Traditional Building Show Partners with 

Comeback to Renovate “Demonstration H 

by Maryann Miller, Operation Comeback acting director 

Not all of us can know the stories 

our homes truly tell. The house at 

the corner of Dauphine St. and 

Jourdan Ave., however, speaks 

clearly to those who stop to listen. 

The graceful proportions 

of the fractured 

home by the levee in 

Holy Cross were evident 

when PRC’s 

Operation Comeback staff met 

it in the spring of 2006, even 

with a 60-ton pecan tree 

wedged into its side and black 

spray paint scrawled across its 

façade announcing “for sale 

$30,000.” There was no tarp 

on its tree-scarred roof nor a 

gutting crew willing to remove 

remaining belongings from its 

pre-Katrina days as two rental 

units. 

Operation Comeback purchased 

the home and within 

months the talented arborists 

and crew at Bayou Tree and a 

skilled crane operator removed 

the pecan tree. OC assembled a 

renovation team to carefully 

quantify the home’s remaining 

assets, like unusually wide, oneand-a-half-inch-thick 

intact 

bargeboard walls, plus fireplace 

mantels, a damaged but decorative 

panel door and tongueand-groove 

wainscoting. The 

rooms were gracious sizes and 

the old window casings (sixover-six 

light windows had been 

replaced with aluminum sashes 

over time) were still there. 

Exploratory interior demolition 

performed carefully by 

White Lumber revealed wood 

weatherboards on an inside 

wall, indicating the building 

was once a shallower four-room 

main structure separated by an 

outdoor space from the two 

additional rooms. 

The gracious house by the levee at 4804 Dauphine St. in Holy Cross was left for a year with a pecan tree bisecti 

Traditional Building Show and generous manufacturers turned it back into a home. Note the unusually wide barg 

LOOKING BACK AND 

TOWARD THE FUTURE 

Historian Judith Bethea 

located evidence that the nearby 

tract by the river operated as 

a brick yard associated with the 

substantial Jordan Plantation, 

inherited in 1835 by Rosalie 

Deslonde Jourdan. By 1868, 

the plantation land had been 

surveyed, divided into squares, 

and sold and resold before 

Emile Gaertner became the 

owner of a home with the 

address 4804 Dauphine St. – 

presumably the same which 

stands today – in 1873. 

Bethea researched detailed 

historic maps of the area, useful 

in tracking the building’s metamorphosis 

from a four- to a sixroom 

and finally an eight-room 

double. 

A large live oak tree 

in the front yard, also a 

flood survivor, met the 

standards of the 

Louisiana Garden Club 

Federation, which agreed 

to register it in the Live 

Oak Society by the name 

Rosalie Deslonde. The 

society’s membership is 

composed exclusively of 

trees. 

A plan solidified to 

transform the shotgun double 

into a three-bedroom, 

two-bath home, which calls 

attention to the structure’s 

simple grace and ample side 

yard (the house sits on a 62- 

See it in person! Exhibit Hall conference attendees are welcome 

to visit the Traditional Building Operation Comeback 

Demonstration House at the appointed tour times (see below). A 

clearly marked Traditional Building bus departs from outside the 

exhibit hall shortly before the following tour dates and times: 

Wednesday, October 17 

9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and 1:30 - 4:45 p.m. 

Thursday, October 18 

9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 

Friday, October 19 

8 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. 

The termite damage to the circa 1870 home was controlled during 

the renovation. 

Saturday , October 20 

8 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. 

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s with PRC’s Operation 

ion Home” in Holy Cross 

PRC Is Grateful to the 

Generous Donors of 

Building Materials 

a pecan tree bisecting it and the roof uncovered. PRC’s Operation Comeback, architect David Dilliard, the 

nusually wide barge board under the siding. 

foot-wide lot). Yet, one question 

remained: how – and 

whether – to repair 

Katrina’s impact on the 

building for the future. 

TRADITIONAL 

BUILDING JOINS 

THE TEAM 

Renovation team 

members solicited to 

assist in the essential 

design phase included 

architect David Dilliard 

AIA, Operation 

Comeback Historic 

Building Specialist 

Aimee Charbonneau and former 

Operation Comeback 

Director R. Stephanie Bruno. 

Together the group explored a 

variety of options, from contemporary 

second story addition 

to a tall, pavilion-type outbuilding. 

The home spoke again, and 

Traditional Building Show 

director Eric Peterson was listening. 

The Traditional 

Building Show is a Washington 

D.C.-based exhibition and conference 

and the largest 

tradeshow in America dedicat- 


A live oak tree in front of the house is a newly 

elected member of the Live Oak Society. Bayou 

Tree Service helped Operation Comeback not only 

remove the pecan tree but also save this flooded 

tree. 

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The tongue-and-groove wainscoting and large amount of wide barge boards 

were original. In the renovation, wainscoting was added to more rooms. Note 

the lovely bead board ceiling in the rear hallway. 

ed to historic building restoration, 

renovation and traditionally 

inspired new construction. 

Peterson was 

already familiar with 

Operation Comeback’s focus 

on the Holy Cross neighborhood 

and distinctive building 

repair approach from working 

to bring Traditional Building 

to New Orleans in October 

2005 (the show first came to 

New Orleans in 2001). He 

soon became part of the team 

effort, circulating information 

about the demonstration 

home to Traditional Building 

Show exhibitors, many of 

whom expressed an instant 

commitment to donate their 

cutting-edge historically-sensitive 

building materials to 

the home’s renovation. 

“The house at 4804 

Dauphine St. serves as an 

example of how an historic 

house and neighborhood can 

be devastated but not broken 

and emerge with a restored 

past, as well as a vision for 

the future,” says Peterson. 

Thanks to his efforts, the 

home is now the Traditional 

Building Operation 

Comeback Holy Cross 

Demonstration House. 

LEVEE VIEWS AND 

CUTTING EDGE FEATURES 

Product donations from 

some of Traditional Building’s 

most in-demand exhibitors 

poured in while Dilliard, 

Charboneau and Bruno finalized 

the building addition 

design, which takes full 

advantage of the clear view to 

both the river and Industrial 

Canal levees by creating a 

roughly 13-by-13 square foot 

screened porch right where 

the pecan tree hit the house. 

Because all three exterior elevations 

of the porch are 

screened, from the front view 

it doesn’t appear as a solid 

mass, while from the side view 

the addition roof, tied into 

that of the house, is an innovation 

unchallenging to either 

this house or the historic shotguns 

around it. Inside, the 

porch beckons from a hallway 

which leads to the dining 

room and kitchen. The addition 

also serves as a shortcut 

side entry to the kitchen from 

the side yard. 

Local colorist Louis Aubert 

selected exterior and interior 

paint colors for the home, utilizing 

his extensive experience 

bringing measured attention 

to Operation Comeback renovations 

(first in Faubourg 

Marengo, now Holy Cross) by 

providing hand-selected 

palates for each residence. 

When the donation of newly 

manufactured Victorianinspired 

interior tile was 

offered, Aubert further dedicated 

design assistance to the 

effort, helping Charbonneau 

select a classic buff and blue 

tile pattern for the home’s two 

bathrooms. 

Meanwhile Charbonneau 

began to coordinate the finer 

points of the donations, 

selecting the proper style or 

model of construction material 

from the manufacturers’ 

product lines and dealing with 

companies from Norco, LA to 

Portland, OR. “Everyone I 

spoke with, from product representatives 

to electricians, 

had a strong historic building 

construction background and 

understood our tight construction 

schedule and limited 

budget,” says Charbonneau. 

Delivery to the PRC’s New 

Marigny district warehouse 

was “all in the timing,” 

according to Charbonneau, 

who credits PRC’s warehouse 

manager Wilbur Walker with 

“going the extra mile,” sometimes 

receiving deliveries 

after-hours in order to accommodate 

the special demands of 

this project. 

From October 16-20, conference 

attendees will visit 

the home in person to hear a 

brief history of the house and 

neighborhood while investigating 

the applications of the 

new home repair materials. 

Renovators are invited to the 

Show Exhibition Hall at New 

Orleans Convention Center 

Hall I-1, free and open to the 

public October 18-20. 

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Where water once rose to the top of the door, a room has been rebuilt that accents its historic 

features – transoms, wide-plank flooring, high ceilings, and original mantel. 

A week before the Traditional Building Conference and 

Exhibition, workers finish painting the walls. 

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S AVE THE DAT E 

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER’S 2007 HOLIDAY HOME TOUR 

CELEBRATES 32 YEARS OF HOLIDAY SPLENDOR 

WHAT: 

WHEN: 

WHERE: 

WHO: 

The Preservation Resource Center’s Holiday Home Tour. 

Tour seven of the most magnificent private homes in the Garden District 

at the 32nd annual Holiday Home Tour. The money raised from the tour 

will fund the PRC’s programs: Rebuilding Together, Operation Comeback, 

Education, Publications and Advocacy. 

Saturday & Sunday, December 8 & 9, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

The tour is self-guided through the Garden District. Headquarters for ticket 

sales, “will call” and the Holiday Home Tour Boutique and Café will be at 

Trinity Episcopal Church (Bishop Polk Hall) 1329 Jackson Avenue. 

For more than 34 years, the PRC has been a major force in preserving 

New Orleans’ cherished neighborhoods and architecture. Our goal post- 

Katrina is to assist homeowners in rebuilding while helping displaced 

citizens return to their homes. 

SPECIAL The Holiday Home Tour offers a chance to peek beyond the gates for a 

FEATURES: glimpse of magnificent art, architectural treasures, historic delights and 

lavish holiday decorations adorning these marvelous private homes in 

New Orleans’ historic Garden District neighborhood. 

HOW: 

• Live musical performances at each home 

• More than 30 local vendors selling unique New Orleans’ gifts and 

stocking stuffers at the holiday boutique 

• Palate, one of New Orleans top caterers, will again be offering a light 

lunch of sandwiches, soups and salads. Last year’s menu received rave 

reviews from everyone. 

Ticket prices: Advance ticket sales – groups of 10 or more/$22, 

members/ $25 and non-members/$30. Day of the tour, all tickets are $35. 

For more information and advance ticket purchase, please call (504) 581-7032 or visit www.prcno.org 

The home of Mrs. Jack R. Aron at 1331 

First Street was constructed in 1869 by 

Samuel Jamison, an Irish architect and 

builder. Mrs. Aron is graciously opening 

her magnificent double-galleried 

Italianate sidehall townhouse to visitors 

for the Holiday Home Tour. 

This year’s Patron Party will be at 1315 First 

Street, one of the city’s most photographed 

and beautifully detailed Italianate center hall 

masonry villas. 

Holiday Home Tour Patron Party 

You’re invited to celebrate this holiday season at the PRC’s Holiday Home Tour 

Patron Party, a special cocktail reception in one of the most spectacular private homes 

in the Garden District. The Patron Party is not to be missed so mark the date on your 

calendar, Friday, December 7 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at 1315 First Street. Space is limited 

so purchase your tickets in advance. Black tie optional. 

Ticket prices for Patron Party and Holiday Home Tour 

Advanced tickets only – Tickets are limited and sell out fast 

$125 Jingle Bells: 1 ticket to the Patron Party and 1 ticket to the home tour 

$350 Sleigh Bells: 2 tickets to the Patron Party and 4 tickets to the home tour 

$500 Silver Bells: 4 tickets to the Patron Party and 8 tickets to the home tour 

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Joe Adams and Lisette Baron own a large Edwardian double in the 2800 block of Bell St. in Mid-City, where they have designed a post-consumer, rustic-modern, 

3-D, waste-reclamation, conceptual art project – otherwise known as a house. The building consists of four apartments. 

Stalking Trash: Home Decor in a Post-Katrina World 

by Mary Fitzpatrick 

photos by Alex Lemann unless otherwise indicated 

J 

While many associate scrounging through garbage piles with rag and bone men or 

the political statements of anti-capitalists, middle-class home-owning trash trawlers 

are finding the 120 million cubic yards of Katrina debris a repository of 

collectibles that just need a little cleaning. The point is to get them before the dump trucks. 

oe Adams and Lisette Baron buy 

baby doll heads, feral pig skulls and 

shadow boxes filled with 

Madagascarene insects to hang on the 

walls of their Mid-City home, but they 

have foraged through piles of hurricane 

debris from Uptown to the Lower Nine 

for kitchen appliances, chairs, and 

bathroom fixtures to refurnish it after 

Katrina. 

“This is going to be a showhouse of 

New Orleans’ discarded past,” says Joe, 

a former installation manager at New 

York’s Guggenheim Museum, where his 

New Orleans-born wife Lisette was 

responsible for the permanent collections. 

“Lisette wants to make it the 

coolest place in Orleans Parish.” 

Joe started trolling for trash in college 

when he realized that his personal 

tastes outstripped his income. But it 

was after Hurricane Katrina, when 

their dream kitchen and living room 

on the ground floor of the two-story 

double flooded, that the demoralized 

couple began their post-consumer 

search in full. At the same time, they 

made the decision to renovate the 

early 20th-century frame house based 

on building techniques in practice 

before the levees were built. 

“Our friend Emile Dumesnil lives 

in one of the steamboat houses in Holy 

Cross, and it was designed so the first 

floor could flood,” Joe tells me on a 

summer visit to his home, where his 

hound dog Debris guards the gate. “We 

got flooded with 16 inches of water, so 

we are now ensuring that all the material 

below the 35 inch mark can get 

saturated in a flood and just be hosed 

off.” 

“After the storm we started ‘shopping’ 

with friends who had also come 

All Joe and Lisette’s plants are found or passed 

along by friends. There are always a few chicken 

eggs in the backyard. 

Joe and Lisette furnished their kitchen with found 

objects, including a live oak tree trunk from 

Lakeview and a section of cypress that Joe sanded 

and varnished for a countertop. 

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Joe and his nephew were driving around Esplanade 

Ridge when Joe spotted this church tithing box in a 

“big ol’ pile of garbage.”


Dumpster diving (also known 

as curb crawling, urban foraging, 

binning, alley surfing, 

garbing, skallywagging and 

trashing): The active search 

for interesting stuff that others 

have thrown away, from the 

curbside or even by diving 

into dumpsters as the name 

implies. 

John Hoffman, 

The Art & Science of 

Dumpster Diving, 1993 

The etiquette of dumpster 

diving as put forth by Mary 

The Dumpster Lady on her 

AOL website: 

• Obey all laws. Period. 

End of story. 

• Don’t trespass. 

• Never go in compactors. 

• Use an Unger Nifty Nabber 

(“Felix”) to avoid actually 

going inside a dumpster. 

• Wear leather work gloves 

and carry anti-bacteria gel 

and a first aid kit. 

• Tithe when you dive by 

donating what you don’t use. 

• Leave the trash looking 

better than when you found 

it. 

• Train friends to drop their 

old stuff at your door. 

Adam Dowis calls himself an “eclectrician” 

and makes lamps and other 

household items from found objects. 

back early. We were depressed and this 

helped,” Joe says. “We observed the 

rules scrupulously; if something was 

touching the sidewalk we stayed away 

from it, but if it was between the sidewalk 

and the curb, we went for it. We 

talked with the police patrol a lot, but 

they just thought we were crazy.” 

JUST IN CASE 

In the fog of loss after Katrina New 

Orleanians were scooping everything 

they owned out of their water-logged, 

moldy, fetid and heartbreaking homes. 

Curbs were piled with rancid refrigerators, 

mildewed mattresses and sodden 

scraps of a whole lifetime. “Just get it 

out of here so we can move on” was 

the tactical reaction. 

At the same time, many residents 

were left without the means to replenish 

their belongings once they could 

get their homes in order. “Just in case” 

became the strategic plan as thousands 

of people spotted treasure in the trash 

and hurried to beat the bobcats that 

were lifting millions of tons of debris 

into tractor-trailer trucks for the journey 

to a landfill. 

DUMPSTER-DIVING EYES 

Following the example of his friend 

Joe Adams, Joe Sherman began collecting 

discarded chandeliers in 

Carrollton. Adams then rewired and 

hung the lamps in Sherman’s live oak 

trees for his wedding to PRC’s Averil 

Oberhelman, who – like much of the 

PRC staff intent on salvaging the city’s 

architecture and keeping it in New 

Orleans – has honed “dumpster-diving 

eyes.” About 10 years ago, Kristin 

Gisleson-Palmer of Rebuilding 

Together retrieved 19th-century castiron 

brackets discarded after a CBD 

fire, and they are now bracing the 

awning of Starbucks on Washington 

Avenue. Her sister, Susan Gisleson, 

redid her entire flooded kitchen with 

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Alyson Elder, whose own Mid-City home flooded and needed to be completely 

renovated, had the owner’s permission to retrieve this table from a flooded 

home in Vista Park, and her husband refinished it. 

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Brandi Couvillion found beautiful old doors abandoned in Mid- 

City for her home in the Lower Garden District. This one has a 

wonderful patinaed copper panel along the bottom to which 

the flood just added more beauty. She and her renovation 

partners removed all the metal parts initially to strip down the 

doors themselves. One door has an inch deep depression at 

the bottom where it was kicked open over the years. 

Joe Adams found the cypress cabinet, the sink, the pipes, 

and the five-foot tall urinal (partially visible to right) in the 

garbage. 


Couvillion, PRC’s chief financial 

officer, did a double take after the 

storm when she saw cypress doors on a 

pile in front of a warehouse in Mid- 

City. After some expert carpentry, they 

are now in her Lower Garden District 

renovation-in-progress. Kiosk editor 

Sarah Bonnette accidentally started a 

collection of old Singer Sewing 

Machine bases, which she gets repainted 

at an auto body shop. 

ORDER FROM CHAOS 

The inventiveness of artists who 

incorporate found objects in their work 

has expanded since the storm. Adam 

Dowis, a Bywater resident who creates 

lamps from trash – like bowling balls 

and fan blades – and calls himself an 

“eclectrician,” has had his work shown 

in New York and is about to be featured 

in a documentary called “The 

Golden Age of Trash.” 

National Public Radio intellectualized 

this new wave of local art, reporting 

that Gulf Coast artists were trying 

to draw meaning and order from the 

wreckage of Katrina. New Orleans artist 

Nicole Charbonnet, who has had solo 

exhibitions of her textural paintings in 

many major U.S. galleries, told USA 

Today, "I am incorporating actual pieces 

of people's lives, their garbage, and 

transforming it into something new, 

and hopefully something beautiful." 

Joe and Lisette’s home took on 16 inches of water after Katrina. In their renovation, 

Joe has made sure that the bottom 35 inches of the house can just be 

hosed off if it floods again. 

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Joe Adams, who has a Masters in 

ceramics from LSU and is also a building 

contractor, has enlarged the artistic 

possibilities of gleaned objects in his 

home. “This is one big conceptual art 

project incorporating stuff found on 

the side of the road,” he says. “Every 

object you see has been created – or 

super, ultra thought about – by me. It’s 

the biggest sculpture I’ve ever made.” 

The Adams family consists of Joe 

and Lisette, who have been married for 

23 years and moved to New Orleans 

six years ago from Brooklyn, and their 

brood of animals. Besides the stuffed 

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Kathryn Lintott and Jason Emery retrieved furniture abandoned on the street for 

their flooded Holy Cross porch and garden, including a twig bench and metal 

glider. 

heads, dried insects and bleached skulls 

on the wall, there are also five chickens 

– Brow, Eyes, Chicken Little, 

Fluffy Butt and Stupid – who evacuated 

to Lafayette with the family. Joe 

makes sure all his guests leave with an 

egg or two found in the garden. The 

day I stopped by there were also four 

more dogs besides the hound Debris – 

Talullah, Busta Brown, Jelly and 

Puddin’ – but Tallulah and Busta 

Brown had just come over to hang out. 

A client from Joe’s contracting business 

gave him an old magnetic, proximity-sensor 

doggie door and activated 

dog collars to match, so the dogs own 

the property inside and out. 

What Joe says about his and 

Lisette’s alternatively-shopped, waterresistent, 

rustic-modern, 3-D, work-inprogress 

and waste-reclamation project 

is that “it feels right.” They took a nice 

middle-class house and turned it into 

digs so customized that it is virtually 

unsalable…which was Joe’s idea all 

along: the five-foot-tall porcelain urinal 

wouldn’t be advertised in any new 

subdivision developments, and the 

Medusa head on the front façade that 

Joe says is a self-portrait was “inspired 

by a nightmarish wiring job I had to 

do.” The screened porch is framed not 

with two-by-fours but in gnarled cedar 

branches blown down by the storm, 

giving it…well, an Adams Family feel. 

As a manifestation of Katrina’s 

havoc from neighborhood to neighborhood, 

the house is truly singular: the 

13-pound brass showerhead found 

under a friend’s house in Mid-City, the 

oversized sink scavenged from a heap 

in Carrollton; the Zen waterfall Joe 

created from ceramic insulators that 

fell off high tension wires all over the 

city. The pedestal for the kitchen 

counter is an uprooted live oak trunk 


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For her home in Mid-City, Alyson Elder discovered hand painted terra cotta tiles 

in a debris pile in the Fountainbleau area and two hand painted wine glasses in 

Vista Park. 


from Lakeview, and the two bathtubs 

in the garden where Joe soaks on 

hot summer days came from Tremé. 

Crape myrtles lying around Uptown 

now pop out of his walls like high 

relief at the Temple of Rameses. Joe 

discovered an authentic Eames chair 

discarded in Gentilly and a Marcel 

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Breuer leather and stainless steel chair 

covered in rotten hotdogs outside a 

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With their “just in case” look on 

life, dumpster divers accumulate lots of 

stuff – the things other people generally 

throw out or give away, and Joe fits 

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Joe and Lisette created together the sculptures of George Washington Carver 

standing on a peanut and Columbus on top of the vegetables he brought back 

from the New World, but the crape myrtle that pops out of the wall like high 

relief at the Temple of Rameses II was found uprooted on the street. 

the profile. He confesses to accumulating 

about “10 tons of junk and gems” 

since 2001, and he’s become the waste 

management system for all his friends’ 

trash as well. Most every neighborhood 

in New Orleans now has someone like 

Joe whom the neighbors know to call 

first before they throw away anything. 

Sometimes, it takes years for inspiration 

to turn a found object into a 

functioning member of the household. 

David Fields is still 

in the thinking 

process of turning 

a big, old Zenith 

T.V. chassis into 

an entertainment 

center, but he 

thought it was a 

horrible waste to 

send the abandoned 

box to a 

landfill without 

giving it a try. “We 

throw away good 

things in this 

country, including 

buildings,” says 

Fields. “The 

preservation mindset 

goes way down 

to my toes.” Artist 

Brandi Couvillion 

comes up with 

new ideas every 

time she sits down 

in her studio and 

picks up discarded, 

broken floorboards 

and slate. Her creations 

are for sale 

at the PRC. 

“To invent, you 

need a good imagination 

and a pile of 

junk,” said Thomas 

Edison. New Orleans certainly produced 

the piles of junk after Katrina, and the 

city also harbors great artistic and creative 

minds. Perhaps, in addition to our 

architecture, music and food, dumpster 

art and trash rehabs will soon become a 

cultural draw to bring tourists back to 

the city. Let’s add it to one of the official 

New Orleans Rebuilding Manifestos. 

Joe gathered fallen ceramic insulators from high tension 

wires to create a Zen waterfall for their patio. 

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A SHOW OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND STORIES 

new orleans’ favorite shotguns 

EXTENDED THROUGH 2007 AND CONSTANTLY EVOLVING 

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS, SCULPTURE, PAINTINGS AND JEWELRY 

Send your best photo or story to be considered for exhibit 

to aoberhelman@prcno.org 

All art is for sale • Exhibit is open to public M-F, 9-5 

Robert Aquarius is the most recent artist 

to add his work to the PRC exhibit. 

Please join us Friday, November 30, 5:30-7 p.m. 

to launch PRC’s new book 

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Preservation Resource Center 

923 Tchoupitoulas St. 

New Orleans Warehouse District 

Preservation is 

Our Mantra 

Mignon Faget Designs 

15th AdornAment 

for PRC Collection 

This year’s AdornAment features the Rosa Keller branch of the New 

Orleans Public Library – one of the most recognizable landmarks in the 

Broadmoor National Register Historic District. Named after the noted 

civil rights and women’s rights activist, the tile-roofed, stucco, Arts and 

Crafts villa was built in 1918 and designated a historic landmark 

under the name Hardie-Fattel House in 1986. It served as a residence 

until 1990 when it was acquired by the city. It is currently being refurbished 

and will be a neighborhood hub in Broadmoor. 

Bronze d’Ore AdornAment 

$30/members and $35/nonmembers. 

Dozens of yoga practitioners gathered in Audubon Park on September 22nd 

for Global Mala, a worldwide event to unite the world in global practice. 

Participants performed 108 repetitions of a universal peace mantra, followed 

by 108 sun salutations. A portion of the proceeds from the event benefited the 

PRC’s Rebuilding Together. 

Sterling Sliver AdornAment 

$150/members and $165/nonmembers 

Call PRC 504/581-7032 to place orders. 

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On the Edge of 

New Orleans, an 

Antebellum Gem 

in Need of Repairs 

text and photos by Alex Lemann 

“We will rendezvous at the Delery St. entrance at 

ten-hundred hours. Pass through the security check 

and await further instructions. Over and out.” 

It was with some trepidation that I 

approached the Delery St. 

entrance of Jackson Barracks on a 

recent Friday morning. A solidlooking 

brick wall topped by liberally 

applied razor wire ran along one 

side of the street, and the armed gunmen 

stationed at the entrance weren’t 

terribly inviting. I parked across the 

street and decided to wait. 

Before long, a kind-looking man in 

full fatigues poked his head through 

the barrier, then ambled up to me. 

“You must be Alex. I’m Lieutenant 

Colonel Tommy Ryan. Come on in.” I 

was briefly embarrassed that I hadn’t 

saluted. Quickly, we started a tour of 

the barracks led by Major General 

Hunt Downer and accompanied by 

about five more soldiers in fatigues. 

Jackson Barracks, General Downer 

informed us proudly, is the greatest collection 

of antebellum homes in the 

country. As we wound our way through 

the grounds toward the river, it became 

apparent that he was probably right. 

Approaching the levee, we emerged 

into a broad, deep quadrangle surrounded 

by elegant two story red brick 

buildings with ample porches and 

stately white columns. It looked much 

more like a beautiful college campus or 

a large plantation than a military 

installation. 

Andrew Jackson, according to 

General Downer, mustered troops here 

for the Battle of New Orleans, and 

most of the buildings we were looking 

at had been constructed in 1835. 

Originally, there had been a thick wall 

General Hunt Downer standing in front of a building constructed in the 1990s 

that he says detracts from the historic character of Jackson Barracks. Faintly visible 

on the column behind him are scratch marks left by a boat that was tethered 

there during the flood. 

surrounding this first group of buildings, 

complete with large circular towers 

with gun loops at the corners. The 

backs of the buildings had actually 

formed part of the protective wall 

itself, but in the 1930s bump-outs had 

been added to the backs to accommodate 

improvements like kitchens and 

bathrooms. The fine proportions of the 

square rooms had been ruined by the 

addition of interior staircases, a feature 

that General Downer had tried to 

remove from his personal quarters 

when he had first moved in. 

The General, it was becoming 

apparent, was a staunch preservationist. 

The “improvements” of the ‘30s bothered 

him, and he continued to point 

out the numerous ways in which the 

National Guard had progressively 

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Turrets with gun loops mark the boundaries of what was once the exterior wall 

of the base. The brickwork on this turret was repointed with Portland cement, 

which is now destroying the soft brick. The brick-lined drainage ditches that 

snake through the barracks are also in need of restoration. 

chipped away at the historic integrity of 

the barracks. Portland cement that had 

been used to re-point one of the old 

turrets was now destroying the faces of 

the soft old bricks. The century-and-ahalf-old 

drainage system that snaked 

through the compound had been covered 

in places by concrete sidewalks 

and was in need of repair. Worst of all, 

from the General’s perspective, the fabric 

of the compound had been ruined 

by the gradual addition of buildings in a 

host of other architectural styles, most 

notably a huge, post-modern, brick 

building that had been put up in the 

‘90s. 

That very building, though, is one 

of only two that are currently up and 

running at Jackson Barracks, and we 

were ushered inside for a briefing, or 

“death by powerpoint,” as General 

Downer put it. Jackson Barracks had 

been hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. 

The homes that sat right next to the 

river levee, including Downer’s own 

house, had taken four feet of water, 

and at the other end of the barracks, 

about a mile toward the lake, there 

had been about 22 feet of water. 

Houses from the Lower Ninth Ward 

had floated over the 10-foot security 

wall that surrounds the complex. The 

entire library had been underwater, 

and the museum, with its records and 

archival holdings, had taken about 

eight feet. 

Jackson Barracks had once been 

home to 650 permanent employees 


Most of Jackson Barracks’ antebellum homes date from 1835. Interior staircases, 

kitchens, and bathrooms added to these buildings in the 1930s detracted from 

their historic character, something that General Hunt Downer hopes to rectify. 

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The Barracks’ former headquarters was constructed during the renovations 

undertaken by the WPA in the 1930s. The fluting on its columns is slowly disintegrating. 

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and a base for 3,000 soldiers; it now 

has 50. Still, General Downer was 

remarkably upbeat about prospects for 

the future. They would “build stronger, 

safer, and smarter.” In some cases, that 

means simply putting computers, electrical 

equipment, and important documents 

on the second floor. For General 

Downer, though, it is also an opportunity 

to implement some of his more 

ambitious plans for the preservation of 

the barracks. 

Jackson Barracks, General 

Downer informed us 

proudly, is the greatest 

collection of antebellum 

homes in the country. 

It was with gusto and a bit of pride 

that the General showed us the master 

plan that had been developed for the 

barracks by Florida-based architect and 

planner Andres Duany and the 

Louisiana Recovery Authority. The 

barracks would be anchored by a large 

new building that would blend seamlessly 

with its architectural predecessors, 

forming an impressive new quadrangle 

at the heart of the facility. Near 

the back, where the flooding had been 

most intense, the plans called for an 

entire Duany-planned, new-urbanist 

neighborhood of gleaming new Katrina 

cottages on tree-lined streets. 

General Downer stressed that all 

these projects for him were a chance to 

go backward as well as forward. He 

dreamed of demolishing bump-outs 

and interior staircases, re-pointing 

bricks, and generally restoring the 

integrity of the antebellum structures. 

FEMA, unfortunately, did not quite see 

it the same way. It was impossible, 

General Downer told us, to get FEMA 

to pay for details like that; they would 

only pay to bring the barracks back to 

the way it was before the storm. “We’re 

dealing with an overall delta of about 

25-75% for the whole project. For the 

antebellum homes, it can be as much 

as 700%,” General Downer said, referring 

to the difference (“delta”) 

between his and FEMA’s estimates 

about what the restoration would cost. 

“Bottom line, we need about $50 million 

more to really do this project the 

right way.” 

In General Downer, Jackson 

Barracks has a champion with a vision 

for the future that remains strongly 

rooted in the preservation of its past. 

Still, with most of the Louisiana 

National Guard overseas and fundraising 

struggles ahead, the way forward 

does not look easy. “We don’t talk politics,” 

Tommy Ryan told us with a grin, 

“but some of the things that are going 

on in this country, well…” He stifled 

some strong language. 

Jackson Barracks forms the boundary 

between Orleans and St. Bernard 

parishes, and there is a sense among 

the top brass that the barracks has its 

role in both areas. Soldiers from the 

barracks were among the first in New 

Orleans to begin plucking people off of 

roofs and airlifting them to the convention 

center, and the barracks would 

like to play the same strong leadership 

role in the recovery effort that it played 

in the rescue effort. “There are a lot of 

potential jobs we’ve got tied up right 

here, local jobs,” General Downer told 

us as we leaving. “If we can get this 

place up and running, we’ll really be 

showing the area that it’s possible, that 

we really can come back.” 

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Alex Lemann, a recent Harvard graduate, is Preservation in Print deputy editor. 

His essays appear monthly. 

Notes from a newcomer 

by Alex Lemann, deputy editor 

The weather in St. Paul Minnesota was blustery and cool on the night I 

arrived for the National Trust conference, but the next day a bright sun emerged 

to bake the city, and by noon it was a heavenly 75 degrees. We had just 

begun a walking tour of downtown St. Paul and, stripping off my sweater during 

a pause in front of the towering Richardsonian Romanesque Landmark 

Center, I made a comment about the temperature. “Ugh.” I heard a grunt from 

somewhere behind me. “I’m from Reno, and this humidity is unbearable.” The 

idea of humidity on a high, windswept bluff at 45 degrees north latitude was 

hard for us New Orleanians to wrap our minds around, and we simply stared 

incredulously. In St. Paul we were like foreigners, visitors to a strange, unfamiliar 

place known as the rest of the country. 

In St. Paul, the streets sparkled with cleanliness and the traffic lights worked 

flawlessly. Drivers used turn indicators, and people were so nice that we 

became paranoid, as if the whole city was somehow trying to con us. We 

toured a cutting-edge power plant in a century-old building that burns leftover 

oat husks from the Cheerios factory up the river. We marveled at the jet-black 

ribbon of asphalt that allows residents to bike along the Mississippi to 

Minneapolis and beyond. We met geeky urban planners beside themselves with 

excitement over the impending construction of a new light rail line right through 

downtown. We were shocked to find St. Paul’s city hall wide open at 9:30 

p.m., a city council meeting in progress in its meticulously restored chambers. In 

the lobby, a gleaming, thirty-foot tall, sixty-ton Eskimo made of solid white onyx 

rotates so slowly you can’t see it move. New Orleans seemed worlds away. 

After a few days in the city, though, we realized that we’re really not that 

different. The battles, the issues, and the obstacles that confront preservationists 

here in New Orleans are just as present up north. We heard tales of historic 

buildings razed to make way for a massive convention center and sports complex, 

and of a neighborhood pushed aside and nearly strangled by ribbons of 

highway that were finally blocked by community protests. We saw the majestic 

Armstrong-Quinlan house, moved from its original location, meticulously 

restored, and divided into units that just won’t sell. We toured an area called 

Lowertown, a once-marginal neighborhood of warehouses rescued by artists 

who were in turn being priced out by high-end condos. Along West 7th Street, 

we heard stories about local shopkeepers driven to extinction by suburbs full of 

nationwide chains. In Uppertown we met homeowners who had poured their 

souls into the Victorian brackets on their porches, and toured Schmidt’s Brewery, 

a massive, vacant brick castle in desperate need of a viable redevelopment 

plan. Everything we heard sounded eerily familiar. 

There are some obstacles, of course, that we don’t face in New Orleans. 

Check into a hotel in St. Paul and you will be given a map of downtown with a 

familiar-looking street grid overlaid by a bizarre network of yellow lines that cut 

jagged paths right through city blocks: the skyway system. In the winter, St. Paul 

is so cold that its citizens walk from building to building on fully enclosed 

bridges a floor above the street. Of course, many people use the skyway system 

in the summer too, and even in early October when the weather is idyllic. The 

result is that the actual sidewalks of St. Paul are often eerily deserted, and businesses 

located on the street have struggled. The skyways also punch holes in the 

sides of historic buildings and have a way of ruining majestic “viewsheds,” and 

the preservationists we talked to all hate them, even though they happily use 

them when the wind chill is at negative thirty. 

Despite all the luxuries of being in a city more functional than our own, 

despite our wide-eyed enthusiasm at gleaming new infrastructure and intact 

buildings, after four days we were ready to go home. There was no movie theater 

and only one jazz club, and the unrelenting niceness was starting to get on 

our nerves. “They don’t even allow cursing in the bar,” Kristin Palmer moaned in 

disgust. For all its advanced technology and smooth functioning, St. Paul would 

kill for an ounce of New Orleans’ soul. Although preservationists everywhere 

may fight the same battles with different levels of success, we in New Orleans 

are working with raw materials that are simply unequalled. I’ll take a third 

world New Orleans over a first world St. Paul any day. 

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S E P T E M B E R 

in the 

CBD Arts District 

Art for Art’s Sake 

Saturday, October 6 • Citywide Art Openings 

Julia St. Celebration with Food, Drinks & Live Music 6 - 9 

Jean Bragg 

Gallery of Southern Art 

IN THE NEW ORLEANS ARTS DISTRICT 

Chuck Broussard 

It's Just the 

Humidity 

Reception: 

Art for Arts Sake 

Saturday, October 6 

6-9 pm 

Hours: 10:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday-Saturday 

600 Julia Street, New Orleans 

504-895-7375 • www.jeanbragg.com 

ADRIAN DECKBAR 

PRIMEVAL (Landscapes) 

October 1 - November 29, 2007 

Reception with the artist: 

October 6th - 6-9 pm 

518 JULIA STREET 

NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 

504.525.0518 

www.gallerybienvenu.com 

EXPLORE AND EXPERIENCE THE 

LOUSIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM! 

Shop till you drop in the 

Little Sav-A-Center. Dine 

in the ”role play” Kids’ 

Café. Build a giant bubble 

or hoist yourself up a 

wall. Learning has never 

been more fun! 

Admission: $7 per person 

420 Julia Street - 523-1357 

Dale Freiler 

“A New Beginning” 

Paintings & Rubbings 

October 6 - November 1 

Opening Reception Sat., October 6 

6 - 9 pm 

709 CAMP ST. 524-3936 

626 JULIA ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 

The best way to 

support local artists is 

to buy their work. 

(504) 592-0206 • (504) 524-8137 

Hours: Mon.-Sat. 12:30-4:30 

www.georgeschmidt.com 

O 

THE OGDEN MUSEUM OF ART 

university of new orleans 925 camp street 

Art and Paradise: 

Self-taught Art from the Permanent 

Collections of Ed McGowin and 

Clauda DeMonte 

504.539.9616 

www.ogdenmuseum.org


by Sarah Bonnette 

PRC 

NEW ORLEANS’ FAVORITE 

SHOTGUNS EXHIBIT EXTENDED 

Thru 2007 – Originally scheduled to 

close after Labor Day, the photo exhibit of 

shotgun houses in PRC’s lobby gallery space 

is being held over through 2007. “Keep this 

up permanently and let it evolve!” was the 

message PRC was getting from the viewers. 

So we did. Also added to the gallery are 

shotgun-related oil paintings and sculpture. 

Shotgun house pins designed especially for 

PRC by India Stewart are for sale as well. 

923 Tchoupitoulas St., Mon.-Fri., 9 – 5 p.m. 

(504) 581-7032 

NEW ORLEANS’ FAVORITE 

SHOTGUNS BOOK PARTY 

NOV. 30 – The PRC will celebrate the 

p u blication of its second book, N ew 

Orleans’ Favorite Shotguns with a party and 

book signing. N ew Orl e a n s ’ Fa v o r i t e 

Shotguns, featuring photographs and text on 

the role of the shotgun house in New 

Orleans life, follows on the success of New 

Orleans: Life in an Epic City, which has so 

far raised over $85,000 for the PRC’s 

r e building projects. Authors Mary 

Fitzpatrick and Alex Lemann will be on 

hand to sign copies of the book, and wine 

and light refreshments will be served. 5:30 - 

7 p.m. For more information, email alemann@prcno.org 

or call (504) 581-7032. 

PRC’S HOLIDAY HOME 

TOUR NEEDS YOU 

DEC. 8 AND 9 – For the 30th year, seven 

private homes in the historic Garden District 

will be open to the public for PRC’s Holiday 

Home Tour. PRC needs volunteers to staff 

these homes. Three-hour shifts are available 

from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 1 - 4 p.m. 

S a t u r d ay, Dec. 8 and Sunday, Dec. 9. 

Volunteers will receive one FREE ticket to 

the event in exchange for their time. 

Send Kiosk information to PRC 

Sarah Bonnette 

923 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, LA 70130 

e-mail: sgbonnette@charter.net • Fax: 504/636-3073 

COPY DUE SIX WEEKS BEFORE PUBLICATION 

Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older. 

Contact Andrea Foster, (504)636-3059 or 

afoster@prcno.org. 

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR 

PATRON PARTY 

DECEMBER 7 – Celebrate the holiday season 

at the PRC’s Holiday Home Tour Patron 

Party, a special cocktail reception in one of 

the most spectacular private homes in the 

Garden District. The black tie optional party 

will last from 7 - 9 p.m. at 1315 First St. 

Space is limited, and there are advance tickets 

sales only. Cost is $125 for one ticket to 

the patron party and one ticket to the home 

tour, $350 for two tickets to the patron party 

and 4 tickets to the home tour, and $500 for 

four tickets to the patron party and eight 

tickets to the home tour. (504) 581-7032 or 

visit www.prcno.org 

GARDEN DISTRICT 

HOLIDAY HOME TOUR 

DEC. 8 AND 9 – Tour seven private 

homes in the historic Garden District from 

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. during PRC’s 32nd annual 

Holiday Home Tour. Each home will feature 

unique architectural elements, works of art 

and local musicians playing holiday music. 

Attendees can shop for one-of-a-kind gifts 

at the holiday boutique featuring 30 local 

vendors selling jewelry, clothing, art, household 

items, chocolate, books and more, as 

well as have lunch at the café provided by 

PALATE Catering. The boutique, café and 

ticket sales are located in Bishop Polk Hall, 

Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson 

Ave. Advance ticket sales are $22 for groups 

of 10 or more, $25 for members and $30 for 

non-members. All tickets are $35 the days of 

the tours. Admission to the holiday boutique 

is free. (504) 581-7032 or visit www.prcno.org 

NEW ORLEANS 

LEARN ABOUT 

TRADITIONAL BUILDING 

OCT. 17 TO 20 – Homeowners, contractors 

and architects should not miss this 

chance to learn about traditional design and 

architecture and the best way to preserve 

historic character while rebuilding after 

Hurricane Katrina. The conference, hosted 

by magazine publisher Restore Media, LLC, 

will feature exhibits from hundreds of suppliers 

of historically accurate building products 

and services, as well as information sessions 

and live interactive demonstrations by 

master craftsmen. In conjunction with the 

conference, Restore Media is part n e r i n g 

with PRC’s Operation Comeback on the renovation 

of 4804 Dauphine St. – known as the 

Operation Comeback Demonstration House 

– in the Holy Cross neighborhood. The conference 

will feature tours of the work-inp 

r ogress at the house, which Operation 

Comeback bought after a 60-ton pecan tree 

fell crushed the roof during Hurr i c a n e 

Katrina. Cost for the full conference is $495 

before Oct. 7 and $545 afterward. Cost for 

the residential series for homeowners is $89 

for one day or $129 for two days. To register 

or for more information, visit www.traditionalbuildingshow.com 

CULTUREFEST 2007 

OCT. 26 TO 28 – Smithsonian magazine 

and the Louisiana Department of Culture, 

Recreation and Tourism will partner to present 

CultureFest, featuring 18 events over 

three days aimed at inviting residents and 

visitors to sample the state’s art, music, hist 

o ry, architecture and cuisine. Eve n t s 

include performances and workshops on 

outsider and Southern art, the New Orleans 

cocktail, talks with New Orleans writers and 

more. www.smithsonian.com/culturefest 

STATE 

LAKE CHARLES NATIVE 

WINS SCENIC BYWAY AWARD 

C o n gratulations to Lake Charles native 

Monte Hurley, who won the first ever Scenic 

B y way Leadership Award at this ye a r ’s 

annual National Scenic Byways Conference, 

held in Maryland. Hurley works with the 

Creole Nature Trail All-American Road. 

SOUTHERN GARDEN 

SYMPOSIUM 

OCT. 26 AND 27 – Take a drive to St. 

Francisville to see beautiful gardens and 

learn how to create them at the 19th annual 

Southern Garden Symposium. The year’s 

event will feature workshops such as 

“Creating Interior Focal Points through 

Floral Design” and “Pruning for Plant 

Health Care.” Cost per day is $60 and 

includes lunch at St. Francisville plantations. 

(225) 635-3738. 

NATIONAL 

WATERFRONT INTERNATIONAL 

CONFERENCE 

MEETINGS 

CITY COUNCIL: Oct. 18, Nov. 1, 15 

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION: 

Oct. 23; Nov, 13, 27 

BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS: 

Nov. 12 

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS 

COMMISSION: Nov. 9 

CBD HISTORIC DISTRICT 

LANDMARKS COMMISSION: Nov. 2 

VIEUX CARRÉ COMMISSION: 

Oct. 16; Nov. 20 

NOV. 1-3 – The Waterfront Center hosts 

the 25th annual international conference on 

waterfront planning, development and culture 

in Boston. The conference will focus on 

economic development issues, public policy 

questions and design considerations for 

waterfront communities nationwide. (202) 

337-0356 or visit www.waterfrontcenter.org 

PUERTO RICO TECH 

CONFERENCE 

N O V. 3-7 – The Association for 

Preservation Technology International will 

hold its annual conference Nov. 3 - 7 in San 

Juan, Puerto Rico. The conference, “Old 

World Technologies Adapting in the New 

World,” will include workshops on architectural 

and wood conservation and lime mortars, 

as well as social events held at historic 

sites throughout old San Juan. www.apti.org 

WOODVILLE ANTIQUES 

SHOW AND SALE 

NOV. 9-11 – Make plans now to head to 

the Woodville Antiques Show and Sale in 

Woodville, Miss. Twenty dealers will showcase 

their wares at the European Antique 

Auction Gallery, and many antique malls 

and markets will be open. The weekend will 

include a special exhibit of 19th- and 20th - 

c e n t u ry quilts at the Wilkinson County 

Museum and a dinner party at the Indian 

Hills Plantation. Tickets to the show and sale 

are $5. (601) 888-7868 www. h i s t o r i c- 

woodville.org 

Apart from the 

ballot box, 

philanthropy 

presents the one 

opportunity the 

individual has to 

express his/her 

meaningful 

choice over the 

direction in 

which our 

society will 

progress. 

– George G. Kirstein 

publisher 

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PRC’s Rebuilding Together was honored for its work in restoring the neighborhoods of New 

Orleans on September 24th along with five other non-profits (New Schools for New Orleans, 

Katrina Krewe, The Louisiana SPCA, City Year, Beacon of Hope, and Women of the Storm). 

During half time, the entire RT staff lined up on the 30 yard line as an announcer praised their 

rebuilding work. Kristin Palmer then appeared on the Superdome’s twin jumbotrons explaining 

how RT’s use of volunteers allows it to “leverage” its efforts. RT staff watched the entire game 

from folding chairs set up on the field, giving them an unparalleled view of the high-intensity 

action of Monday Night Football: the bone-crunching hits, the sweat, the emotion, the 

Saintsations…unfortunately, Drew Brees threw four interceptions and the Saints lost 31-14, but it 

was a night to remember for RT all the same. 

The new non-profit House of Broel Foundation is pleased to announce, “A Debut on 

the Avenue,” a fundraising “Coming Out Party” for the House of Broel Museum, home 

to an extensive miniature collection of historically accurate scale model mansions, houses, 

shops and vignettes filled with elaborately costumed figures and décor that Bonnie 

Broel began creating in 1981, as well as a display of her father’s “Louisiana Frog 

Farm.” It is the future home of “House of Broel’s Fashions through the Decades.” 

The Gala is Friday, November 2, at 2220 St. Charles 

Avenue, the majestic mansion built in 1850 and raised to 

its present three-story appearance in 1884. Bonnie Broel 

will be autographing her new book, House of Broel, The 

Inside Story; A New Orleans Saga – From Russia to 

Hurricane Katrina. Look forward to friends, fine food, libations, 

entertainment and an exciting silent auction. Your 

donation of a gift certificate or a an item would be 

appreciated. 

Your help is greatly appreciated and will support the 

foundation’s mission to preserve the mansion, collection 

and public meeting spaces. Our hope is that you will 

consider a sponsorship or the donation of a Gift 

Certificate or item to be auctioned. Just fill out the 

donor form on the next page or call 494-2220 for more information. 

$50 per person for gala only – 8 -11:00 p.m. 

$85 per person for 7 p.m. patron party and gala, 

which includes a one year $35 membership in the museum and 

a pull-over cotton commemorative shirt. 

(504) 494-2220 or info@houseofbroel.com for more information. 

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Lg crtyd w/pkg fabulous main 

house & 3 story dep $1,695,000 

SOLD! 831 ST. LOUIS UNIT 

Top 2 flrs/stunning gallery 

views/pkg/2BR 3BA. $695,000 

SOLD! LOYD HALL PLANTATION 

Two homes and outbuildings 

on 12 acres nr. Alexandria. 

$1,250,000 

SOLD! 816 GOV. NICHOLLS 

An enchanting cottage w/guest 

house & garden. $900,000 

SOLD! 817 DUMAINE 

1830 FQ Townhouse. Fabulous 

details, pkg, 5158 sf 

huge hdn. $2,300,000 

SOLD! 729 DUMAINE 

Perfect small house w/pkg 

1200 sf Victorian 2BD 1/1 BA 

$485,000 

SOLD! 715 DAUPHINE 

Stunning formal rooms, guest 

apt. garage. $1,650,000 

SOLD! LSU FIELD HOUSE 

New luxury condominium 

1/1, pkg.…in Baton Rouge 

SOLD! 424 MAIN STREET 

Federal House in Woodville. 

5000 sf. $179,000 

SALE PENDING! 

1223 URSULINES 

Tremé Victorian side hall 

cottage. Garden. $229,000 

LUXURY TRACAGE #905 

High rise living at its best in 

Warehouse District. $619,000 

KENILWOOD FARM 

Two houses on 212 acres 

w/pond half mile from 

Woodville Hwy. 24. $895,000 

THE WOODVILLE 

ANTIQUES SHOW 

NOVEMBER 9th, 10th & 11th 

FRENCH QUARTER 

826 BOURBON 

Three bay cottage w/delicious crtyd 

& 2BR guest depend. $875,000 

505 ROYAL 

Stunning 5 BR classic townhouse 

w/shop below, pkg, guest 

house $3,750,000 

823 BURGUNDY 

Second flr condominium 2BR 

nice bldg & assoc. $399,000 

NEW! 407 BURGUNDY #2 

Two BR w/balcony. New 

kitchen& bath. $285,000 

924 ORLEANS 

Could be 6 condos or super 

single. Ready to go. 4700 sf 

$1,295,000 

1230 BOURBON 

Nice 2 BR 1 BA condominium 

with its own front gallery! 1015 

sq. ft. $378,000 

835 URSULINES 

Victorian w/open floor plan 

udated/garden $749,000 

722 Ursulines 

722 URSULINES 

Perfect 2BR2BA Quarter home 

w/pool & pkg behind these 

gates! $1,995,000 

NEW PRICE!530 ST. PHILIP 

Second floor, 1308 Sq. ft. two 

bedroom with rooftop. $379,000 

525 MADISON 

Just off Jackson Square. A 

complex w/garden & pool & 

pkg. Price upon request. 

731 DAUPHINE B 

Especially charming two 

story 2BA w/garden t op 

quality 880 sq ft. $397,000 

NEW ORLEANS 

2027 Carondelet 

NEW! 2027 CARONDELET 

The Capt Leathers House. A 

classic w/carriage house. Total 

8000 sf. $2,150,000 

429 AMETHYST 

Feels new Lakeshore 5BR4.5BA 

pool, hi ceil., gorgeous. $899,000 

3620 CANAL 

A Classic Villa Landmark, now 

B&B. 7 BR 61/2 BA all 2nd & 

3rd flr levels. Pkg & gardens 

$995,000 

NEW! 2701 ST. CHARLES 

5 BR 5-1/2 BA Greek Revival 

ge. $2,600,000 

Ernesto Caldeira 

504.523.1553 

www.ernestocaldeira.com 

NEW ORLEANS 

7726 JEANNETTE 

Totally redone/great style light/ 

space/fenced. $698,500 

1314 URSULINES 

Two apts/was a 5 room deep 

single $259,000 

NEW PRICE!GUEST HOUSE 

1118 Ursulines, 14 rooms, turn 

key, with parking. $1,195,000 

170 WALNUT 5F 

Stylish high rise living on the 

river w/pool & pkg $730,000 

45 Newcomb 

45 NEWCOMB BLVD. 

Exclusive enclave-stylish Mediterranean 

w/5410 sf 4BR/3BA 2 

car garage $797,000 

LOUISIANA PROPERTIES 

NEW! CREOLE COTTAGE 

5669 Hwy 44 Convent on 2 acres 

w/14 acres & houses across the 

road. $350,000. 

EDGEFIELD, CHENEYVILLE 

A fabulous country home on 

bayou. 20 acres Guest house/pool 

$900,000 

5929 HIGHWAY 39 

18 acres & a new two story 

galleried house $989,000 

MARY PLANTATION 1820 

Classic columns all around, upper 

galleries, at levee, 30 minutes 

down river, 7 acres. $1,200,000 

WOODVILLE, MS 

Convent 

Mary Plantation 

168 Natchez 

168 NATCHEZ 

1876 Greek Revival on huge lot 

15’ ceilings 4400sf $279,000 

WOODVILLE, MS 

NEW! 643 MAIN STREET 

Store 8679 sf $169,000 Nearby 

Warehouse 3200 sf $35,000 

512 SLIGO 

Solid 3BR Craftsman w/pool 

Lg. lot good condition $199,000 

902 MAIN STREET 

Nice 19th century cottage in 

Nat’l Reg. Hist. Dist. Needs 

some TLC. $125,000 

DOWN THE BAYOU! 

VICTORIA INN 

In Lafitte on the water, 14 guest 

rms, 6 acres lush gardens, 3 structures, 

pool, pkg, restaurants, events 

income! $1,600,000 

NATCHEZ, MS 

NEW! CHEROKEE 

217 High Street Spectacular 

Greek Revival Pilgrimage home 

w/privacy $1,300,000 

WYOLAH PLANTATION 

1836 two story w/dbl. galleries and 

several significant outbuildings. In 

Church Hill 60 acres. $1,280,000 

VICKSBURG, MS 

NEW! McRAVEN 

Landmark house museum all furnishings 

& collections. 3 acres. 

$1,750,000. 

POPLARVILLE, MS 

NEW PRICE! 500 ACRES 

On Stanford Lake Road. Has 

100 acre lake…spectacular 

views…for estate development 

or private retreat. $5,000,000 

CENTREVILLE, MS 

1012 W. CHEROKEE 

Nice Craftsman, 1656 sf, 1/2 acre, 

great country neighborhood. $65,000 

NEW PRICE! 705 S. GORDON 

Nice house 3BR 1BA 1386 sf 

on 5.5 lots. $82,500 

David Abner Smith 

504.495.2387 

www.davidabnersmith.com 

504.944.3605 www.dbsir.com 

www.sothebysrealty.com 

Cherokee 

McRaven 

985 Stanford Lake 

When: Monday October 29, 2007 

1:00 PM sharp 

Where: 

718 Barracks Street 

New Orleans, La 70116 

Preview October 17 and 24, 2007 

Dates: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM 

Call for registration information 

MICHAEL WILKINSON 

504-491-0484 

wilkinson66@hotmail.com 

French Quarter Realty 

504-949-5400 • www.fqr.com 

Robin Ruiz Louisiana License Number: 1114-04 

• Broker Participation is welcome 

• Sold “As Is” with waiver of redhibition 

500 PELICAN ST., ALGIERS POINT - $900,000 

Proposed condo conversion, gutted and framed per 

HDLC. Zoned RD-3, will build to suit, conv. will 

include 4 units, parking lot for 7 vehicles, 6 ft. sliding 

gate and swimming pool. Anticipated condition 

is considered excellent. S old as is, price is firm. 

EQUAL HOUSING 

OPPORTUNITY 

LATTER 

Stephanie Benson 

ABR,CRS,HHS,GRI 

(504) 650-3735 Cell 

(504) 361-0920 Home 

(504) 362-1823 Office 

sbenson@latterblum.com 

www.stephaniebenson.com 

BLUM 


Since 1916 

www.prcno.org

74720 LEE ROAD, COVINGTON, LOUISIANA 

1882 country cottage in picturesque setting. Beautifully renovated & 

decorated. Cottage has liv rm w/gas frpl, dining rm, solarium, custom 

galley kitchen 2 bdrms, & 2 baths. Guest house has 2 bdrms, 2 ba, 

laundry rm. Enjoy charming walk-ways, fountain, swimming pool, pond 

& formal landscaping with sprinkler system. $795,000. 24 hr notice for 

appt. Call Susan Milling 557-7908 

UPTOWN 

7934 Maple St. (504) 861-7575 

GARDEN DISTRICT 

1820 St. Charles Ave. (504) 891-6400 

1521 Washington Ave. (504) 861-6400 

719 ST. ANN 

In the heart of the French Quarter, choose from six 1BR/1BA 

units. All have high ceilings & crown molding, wood floors, granite 

counters, stainless steel appliances, spectacular views. Some 

have balconies. Lovely courtyard. Perfect location. From 

$248,000. The Francher-Perrin Team 504-251-6400 or 504- 

722-5820. 

Historic 1880s Structure with 21st Century Ammenities 

2625 ST. CHARLES AVE. 

Gorgeous 2 bdrm/ 2 ba Garden District condo with 1340 SF. Offers 

wide pine floors, soaring ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, marble 

mantle, and deep crown molding. Spacious rooms and great light. Offstreet 

parking. Bonus: elegant front gallery overlooking St Chas Ave. 

to tempt every float rider to shower you with beads. $435,000. For 

appt. call Terry Roff, 251-0883. 

2502 MAGAZINE ST. 

Gorgeous Victorian in the Garden District. This home's interior 

includes features that New Orleans is famous for! Exquisitely painted 

cove ceilings with 11 fabulous mantelpieces. Stunning stained 

glass and wonderful chandeliers. Exceptional architectural wood 

detail though out. Please contact Joshua Walther 504-717-5612 

PRISTINE ARTS AND CRAFTS COTTAGE 

459 Audubon Blvd offers 3 bdrms/3 baths, light-filled rooms, glowing 

wood floors, and every amenity. Main floor has spacious living room and 

dining room., breakfast room with glass front cupboard, efficient kitchen 

w/many cabinets and countertop space, office, and 2 bedrooms. Second 

floor has bedroom suite. Each bedroom has a bath and home boasts 

lovely fireplace and cypress mantle, great closets, patio, and 2-car parking. 

$399,000. For more info or appt., call Suzanne, 250-0738. 

900 FERN ST. CORNER BURTHE 

Classic old fashioned cottage built as a shotgun double in late 

1800s or early 1900s, then converted to a charming single 

with living room, dining room, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, study or 

small 3rd bedroom, country kitchen w/all appliances, utility 

room w/washer & dryer included, central ac/heat. Wide pine 

floors, high ceilings, 4 mantles plus faux painted walls & ceiling 

fans add to the original charm. 1692 sq.ft. of living space, 

off street parking for 2 cars. Walk to Maple & Riverbend 

shopping & restaurants. NO FLOODING or Katrina damage. 

Listed under appraisal at $375,000. For an appointment, call 

Jane Leach King 504-914-5123 

BURTHE STREET 

Treasure historical design elements, neighborhood amenities, & walk 

to streetcar! Sparkling L-shaped Eastlake Victorian w/sidehall. Lg front 

parlor. Wide dining rm w/chair rail molding behind sidehall! 2 independent 

bdrms/2 bath suite & 3rd bdrm option! Relax in large rear kitden 

w/fabulous garden views. Good storage, lg bkyd, brick patio, alarm, 

new slate roof, driveway. $430,000. Linda Babineaux 957-8014 

Non-Profit Org. 

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building and nurturing a sustainable 

community. The work of the 

Preservation Resource Center of 

New Orleans is a model for the 

country and, in the wake of the 

devastation of Hurricane Katrina, 

it is among the most compelling 

examples of sound stewardship 

of resources.” 

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