Whenever I see demolition requests for non flooded areas of the City I have to wonder what the motivation is at this paticular time when so much work is being done in the flooded areas. This place had a lot of great period details

1631 Delachaise

This building is a block off of St. Charles. A great location for apartments or condos.

detail 1631 Delachaise Street

According to the Assesors report the building has been boarded up since 2003.

The application to demolish was denied on 2/20/2006

Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led...