historic preservation

Greenfield Exports LLC canceled plans to build a grain elevator in St. John the Baptist Parish after a lengthy permit process with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Tate Family has spent nearly two decades uncovering records that establish their ancestors' time in Alabama before its statehood.

Unlike the rest of the state’s chemical corridor, no plants have been built on St. John the Baptist Parish's west bank. But some residents fear that could change as industrial developers eye farmland near the predominantly Black community of Wallace. As part of an effort to slow industrial encroachment and preserve the community’s history, federal officials are now contemplating whether St. John’s west bank could earn one of the country’s most prestigious historic designations: a National Historic Landmark.

For years, Farish Street has been viewed as a failed business district. But Black business owners are working to shift the narrative of the historic street.

New Orleans-born actor Anthony Mackie is trying to raise his Esplanade Avenue home to avoid floodwaters and give his family more room, he said in a letter to the City Council on Thursday.

Noted Chicago architect Gunny Harboe is speaking at Tulane University on Thursday about the complex $25 million restoration he led on a Frank Lloyd Wright…

Some say history belongs to the victors, but at the National World War II Museum, historical objects belong to the archivists. Jennifer Waxman is an…

The St. Charles streetcar line is one of nine new national historic landmarks announced Tuesday by the Department of the Interior.The St. Charles Line has…

If you sit down with Joey Fonseca to discuss alligator hunting, he'll let you know that governmental regulations make his blood boil. But you'll also…

The problem of blight in New Orleans has hardly disappeared with the uptick in the city’s housing market. And on one quiet block in Mid-City, a very hot…