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The New Orleans-based Preservation Resource Center raises money to renovate the homes of former jazz musicians and sell them to private owners but after Katrina, that program which relies on city funding dropped down on the list of city priorities, as the city focused on rebuilding neighborhoods and returning residents to their homes …
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River Reaches a Point Never Before Touched-Subsiding Now.
[June 21, 1893] The river yesterday reached the highest known mark at this place, but by noon today the gaguge registered a fall of two inches. The fine weather, compared to the rain and wind of the day before, may have had something to do with this, but it is generally accepted as bearing out the prediction of the chiefs of the United States and State Engineer Bureaus here, who claimed that the highest point had been reached by the river and that unless there should be a succession of storms the water would steadily decline and that the greater danger was past.
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After 170 years fishing and crabbing in the swamps of south Louisiana, the Isle de de Jean Charles Band of Boloxi-Chitimacha-Choctow has decided to move away from its ancestral island home and start a new life as a community behind levees.
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Greater New Orleans, because of its low-lying location, developed as a tight urban area. The original town clung at first to its limited high ridges such as those along the Mississippi River as well as the Esplanade, Metairie and Gentilly ridges. It later spread outward within a confined network of levees and pumps.
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Audubon Park will be the topic of a free lecture Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Cabildo.
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Bayou Manchac is now Louisiana's second historic waterway. State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham made the designation official last weekend.
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A jem of a shopping district with family-owned department stores, doctor's offices and New Orleans pride. It's how Mary-Beth Romig of the New Orleans Convention and Visitor's Bureau remembers Canal Street...
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For four-and-a-half months in 1872-73, a young Edgar Degas, not yet the world-famous French impressionist, lived at his maternal uncle’s house at 2306 Esplanade Avenue, just outside of New Orleans’ French Quarter. While there, Degas thrived in the local culture and painted 18 paintings. He also wrote several letters home to his family in France, detailing life in this exotic American city...
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Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel by joseph a (Flickr)
One of the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s Most Endangered historic properties became even more so this month when the Mississippi Legislature voted to move toward acquisition of the property, just west of the Capitol and Woolfolk State Office Building, to build more state offices on the site.
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