Squandered Heritage

FEMA Section 106
Public Notice Regarding Historic Review of Privately-Owned Residential Buildings Proposed for Demolition in Orleans Parish, Louisiana - Non-Collapsed Buildings Seeking Comment. Well, in theory.

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Housing Conservation District Review Committee Meeting Agenda
January 8th, 2007
10 a.m. Room 7E07
City Hall

RESULT APPROVED

Result: This house is up for review at next Monday’s meeting.

Owner Catherine Cox-Francis has applied to demolish this single-family residence to be replaced with a new approximately 2,000 square foot, single-family residence of no specific design (no proposed plan or elevations were included in the application).

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Meeting Agenda
December 4th, 2006
10 a.m. Room 7E07
City Hall
RESULT=APPROVED

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Meeting Agenda
December 4th, 2006
10 a.m. Room 7E07
City Hall

RESULTS= WITHDRAWN

I had to dig some weeds aside on the sidewalk to get at the spray painted address on the sidewalk to verfiy it as the right place. All you can wonder down here in the Lower Ninth Ward, . . . where are these people now? A worker in an orange vest stopped to ask if I was alright, it’s pretty desolate out here. It’s unusual to see a white chick with a camera and clipboard. We must thank the owners for gutting the house, it is the only real way to assess the scope of the damage, and so many of these were ‘no brainers’ for demo, they only have one choice.

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Meeting Agenda
November 20, 2006
10 a.m. Room 7E07
City Hall

Result: Approved

Owner Larry Perodin has applied to demolish this arts and crafts style single shotgun. He has no plan to rebuild. I can’t argue it, I can only be sad. My guess is that this will be approved.

This house is in the upper Ninth Ward, between Clouet and Louisa St. The speed tour of our devastated city could be done by driving the length of Louisa St. If you drive from one end of Louisa St. to the other, you will see a cross section of damage that is representative of the scope of the destruction we have on our hands here. At the more Eastern end, near Indian Village, 90% of it looks like it was bombed. There are a surprising amount of people coming back there. Here, above the Bywater neighborhood, it’s better but it’s hard to argue demolition for most of the housing stock. It’s heartbreaking.

When you cross Claiborne things improve greatly and when you cross over St. Claude it feels like nothing ever happened.