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Plantations, Preservation, and Privilege

Historic PreservationBy Nora Goddard January 12, 2016 2 Comments

This is the first of a series of essays on items of historical interest related to New Orleans. I studied fine arts, and after moving to New Orleans studied historic preservation and architecture conservation. I interned with Save Our Cemeteries for a year learning masonry and conservation skills. I work now on historic masonry structures,…

Historic Public Housing and Gentrification in New Orleans

Editorial, French Quarter, Historic Preservation, History, Urban DecayBy Nora Goddard November 27, 2012 4 Comments

Nora Goddard [Note: this is an edited version of an editorial first published in 2012, when the demolition of the Iberville projects was imminent. You may obtain the fully cited and illustrated copy as an eBook New Orleans’ first generation of public housing projects, some of the first built in the nation, were once…