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Richard Nickel dedicated his life to photographing the buildings of reknowned Chicago architects Adler and Sullivan. He died while photographing the ruins of the Chicago Stock Exchange thirty-five years ago. As Karen and I, and now, also Randall do, Nickel chased the wrecking ball and often captured the last photographs of some of Chicago’s most […]

HDLC Historic District Landmarks Commission Meeting Agenda May 11th, 2007 City Council Chambers 9:30 a.m. City Hall RESULT: Approved Joseph Tolliver, owner, represented by the Housing Unit Demolition Task Force. Right now, we are in the vortex of the demolition process we could see coming 6 months ago. It could be an Imminent Danger declaration […]

We had written here earlier about Blight Bonds. A project that Ed Blakley was touting as a way to raise revenue. It appears now that it is off the “table”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117877476868770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 This is the follow up “article”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-7/117886750764080.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Deferred, Applicant Not Present Jules Ford, III, owner/applicant. Proposal for demolition with redevelopment plans.

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET St. Peter Claver Church, owner. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition. Want to put in a credit union but no plans presented. RESULT: 30 day Layover This church had two other properties on previous HDLC agenda:1009 […]

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Withdrawn by Applicant Jean Farère Dyer, M.D., owner. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition. This house is next to the Bywater hospital.

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Begin 30-day Layover Horace Bynum, Jr. owner/applicant. Proposal for demolition

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Deferred Owner Not Present Jacque & Mary Raymond, owners. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition. This house was gutted, there must have been problems after the house was gutted.

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Approved Thu L. Nguyen, owner. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition While I was taking pictures of this burned out corner store , the neighbors asked me to take a picture of a house nearby […]

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET *APPROVED* The Sixth Baptist Church, owner/applicant. Proposal for demolition. This creole cottage would have had a lot of potential. It is near the new Saint Thomas projects and there is a lot of positive development in that area of […]