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Preserving the cultural, social, economic, and architectural history of New Orleans since 1968.

10/30/2026

🎃Some Spooky Scenes from the St. Charles Avenue Local Historic District!🎃 This District was designated in 1976 (expanded in 2017). The Avenue’s wide neutral ground, with its graceful live oaks and busy streetcar line, is a widely recognized symbol of New Orleans.🐈‍⬛🦇

10/14/2026

4800 Canal Street
The Mortuary Haunted House/PJ McMahon Funeral Home
The original mortuary was built in 1872 by the Slattery family. The current Neoclassical appearance is from the 1920’s addition/alteration by William R. Burke. A second renovation in the 1950’s by Herbert A. Benson and George J. Riehl added the rear addition. The business was equipped with an autopsy room, an embalming room, a cold storage area for the bodies and its own crematorium. Ads in the 1920’s show the shift in the mortuary business from at-home funerals to funerals in buildings specially tailored to the purpose. The building remained a family-owned funeral home until the 1990’s. In 2007, Jeff Bourn purchased the property and converted it into a “haunted” house. The HDLC voted to nominate the building for study as a landmark on August 8, 2008.

10/08/2026

Cypress Grove Cemetery Entrance Gate
116-120 City Park Ave
These entrance gates and porters’ lodges lead into the Cypress Grove Cemetery. The cemetery was founded by and still operated by the Fireman’s Charitable and Benevolent Association.
The entrance is believed to be the design of Frederick Wilkinson, a graduate of West Pointe. The entrance is one of the finest and earliest remaining Egyptian Revival cemetery gates in the United Sates. One of the most common uses for the Egyptian Revival styles, in this country, was for architecture that related to death: cemetery gates, tombs and mortuaries.
This structure was designated as a local landmark by the Historic District Landmarks Commission on October 4, 1977.

09/29/2026

842 Camp St

842 Camp St is an outstanding residential example of the Italianate style of architecture. Either built or extensively remodeled around 1870, this house was the home of importer and banker Joseph Lenes until his death around 1915.
The rusticated entrance has a handsome segmentally arched entrance way. The full length windows on the ground floor are also segmentally arched, typifying the Italianate style. An elegant cast iron verandah projects from the second floor. The façade of the building is crowned by an elaborate pierced parapet, set above an entablature with paired brackets.
At its September 20, 1977 meeting, the Commission designated the building as a landmark saying it met one of the criteria for designation.

09/28/2026

We hope that you’ll be able to join us this Wednesday to celebrate our 50th anniversary! Thank you so much to Preservation Resource Center Louisiana Landmarks Society/The Pitot House Museum VCPORA for hosting this event

09/23/2026

1009 Poydras St
Maylie’s Restaurant (now Copper Vine)
Maylies Restaurant is believed to have been built in 1894, in the Edwardian style, as a residential building for the owners, Bernard and Hypoloe Maylie. The building was located across the street from the Poydras Market which occupied the center of Poydras Street from 1837 until 1932, when it was demolished.
The building is also one of the last remaining structures on Poydras Street whose age and scale reminds us of another time when this area was dominated by the Poydras Market.
HDLC staff found that the building met three of the four criteria for designation and on September 8, 1977, the Commission recommended that the building be designated as a local landmark.

09/23/2026

09/22/2026

St. Joseph’s Church
1802 Tulane Ave.

St. Joseph’s Church, one of the largest and most impressive 19th century buildings in New Orleans, was built between 1869 and 1892. On July14, 1977 the staff of the HDLC found that St. Joseph’s met three of the four categories required for designation. Note that the towers present in the architect’s drawings and the rendering from 1875 (slide 13) were never built.

09/18/2026

Thank you so much to the City Archives & Special Collections for hosting our 50th anniversary Open House. They pulled so many great pieces from our archives and did an excellent presentation on using our archives at the main library to research the history of buildings and neighborhoods. 🙌 and thank you to everyone who came out!!!

09/15/2026

Riverboat captain Milton P. Doullut designed and built two identical houses which are among the most fascinating and unique structures in a city known for it’s outstanding architecture.
The design of the houses appears to be influenced by the Golden Pavilion, the Japanese exhibition building at the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis and the architecture of steamboat houses.
On January 4, 1977, the Steamboat Houses were two of the first three buildings designated as landmarks by the newly formed HDLC. The Commission found that the houses each met the requirements of three of the four areas of criteria determining landmark qualification.

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1300 Perdido Street, 7th Floor
New Orleans, LA

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 3:30pm

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+15046587051

Website

http://www.nola.gov/hdlc

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