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Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

3504 3508 3510 4th Street

3504 Fourth St. Jerusalem Baptist Church has applied to demolish this bracketed shotgun double former residence to be replaced with a new sanctuary building built using Bush-Clinton funds awarded to faith-based programs and designed by Arriaga & Arriaga for Arch-Dynamica. *APPROVED* 3508-10 Fourth St. Jerusalem Baptist Church has applied to demolish this bracketed shotgun double […]

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Corner Store & Melpomene and Constance

I went to a District 3 planning meeting today and saw “Richard Campanella”:http://www2.tulane.edu/article_news_details.cfm?ArticleID=6719. I have been reading his latest book “Geographies of New Orleans”:http://cls.louisiana.edu/campanella.shtml and have been very impressed with the variety of information. The way in which it is presented and the ability it has to make you see New Orleans in yet another […]

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Lisa Mazique and the Clio Street Nightmare

I remember when this story was first covered by the “Times Picayune”:http://letloverulehouse.blogspot.com/2005_07_09_letloverulehouse_archive.html and in looking found the blog of the folks who live next door to it. I had done some research on this house and the story of the move to this location. What is difficult to fathom is the size of this house. […]

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340 S.Clark Mid City redux

Mark Folse from “The Wet Bank Guide”:http://wetbankguide.blogspot.com/ sent me a photo of a house on the “FEMA list.”:http://www.crt.state.la.us/culturalassets/fema106/readnotice.asp?NoticeID=19 It seemed from the photo that the house was in pretty good shape. I have been back three times because I could not believe that this house was in need of demolition. I looked around and although […]