The Louis Armstrong Elementary School at St. Claude and St. Maurice is one of our featured venues as part of this year’s Historic Green. Activities at the school included a structure walk-through (led by deconstruction experts and former FEMA inspectors), followed by a design charrette to generate ideas for the use of the abandoned building as a community arts space. Finally, volunteer teams worked on site beautification, to clean up the school’s front green space and landscaping the surrounding area with hardy, native plants.
The Preservation Resource Center provided this terrific slideshow of the building assessment tour on March 11 – and featuring our very own Heather Gay.
In addition, the National Trust’s online Preservation Magazine featured a story on the school’s restoration plans – and Historic Green’s involvement in the cleanup:
You can read all of “New Life for New Orleans School and Civil Rights Landmark?” here.
The Preservation Resource Center provided this terrific slideshow of the building assessment tour on March 11 – and featuring our very own Heather Gay.
In addition, the National Trust’s online Preservation Magazine featured a story on the school’s restoration plans – and Historic Green’s involvement in the cleanup:
“This month, there's new hope for an abandoned New Orleans school that was one of the first to be integrated in the Deep South during the Civil Rights Era.
The Leona Tate Foundation for Change, which incorporates tomorrow [March 18], will raise money to renovate the McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School in the Ninth Ward as "a Civil Rights museum that can attract people from all over the nation," says Rev. John Moore, foundation chair.
The 1929 structure (now called the Louis D. Armstrong Elementary School) was shuttered before Katrina, when floodwaters damaged the first floor. The school district plans to mothball the facility, having concluded that it will cost $8.8 million to repair and $10 million to replace.”
The Leona Tate Foundation for Change, which incorporates tomorrow [March 18], will raise money to renovate the McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School in the Ninth Ward as "a Civil Rights museum that can attract people from all over the nation," says Rev. John Moore, foundation chair.
The 1929 structure (now called the Louis D. Armstrong Elementary School) was shuttered before Katrina, when floodwaters damaged the first floor. The school district plans to mothball the facility, having concluded that it will cost $8.8 million to repair and $10 million to replace.”
You can read all of “New Life for New Orleans School and Civil Rights Landmark?” here.
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