2024 Winners

Louisiana Landmarks Society is now accepting online nominations for the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation. The Awards honor projects completed in 2023 in Orleans Parish, including the French Quarter, that represent outstanding examples of restoration, rehabilitation, or new construction APPROPRIATE TO historic NEIGHBORHOODS.

Nominations for the 2024 Awards may be submitted from individuals, companies, or organizations online. 

There is $100 submission fee per project, you can pay online. Deadline is Midnight on March 1, 2024.

The awards will honor projects completed in 2023 in Orleans Parish, including the French Quarter, which represent outstanding examples of restoration or rehabilitation of historic buildings, as well as new construction. The project should rise to a level of excellence in areas which:

·   Demonstrate that historic preservation can be a tool to revitalize older neighborhoods;

·   Show that historic preservation is “green” and sustainable;

·   Support the cultural and ethnic diversity of the preservation movement;

·   Involve properties that utilize various federal or state tax incentive programs

·   Exemplify creative examples of saving a historic building;

·   Represent superior examples of preserving or restoring historic interiors;

·   Exhibit outstanding technical proficiency or innovation;

·   Represent new design that is appropriate to historic neighborhoods;

·   Meet high standards of preservation; and 

·   Respond to neighborhood input.

Your participation in nominating outstanding, award-worthy projects is appreciated.

Please call us at (504) 482-0312 or email executive@louisianalandmarks.org if you have any questions. 

2023 Winners

Here are the Winners of the Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation 2022-2023:

Rose Mary Loving School (Former Martin Behrman School), 715 Opelousas Street

2340 Dauphine Street

937 Dumaine Street

Eleanor McMain Secondary High School Auditorium, 5712 S Claiborne Avenue

Frederick A. Douglass High School Auditorium, 3820 St. Claude Avenue

HighRise NOLA Apartments, 6324 Chef Menteur Highway

The Ironworks Building, 315 Girod Street

Leah L. Chase School (Formerly Marquis de Lafayette Elementary School), 2727 S Carrollton Avenue

Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans, 1601 Leonidas Street

Maison du Krewe/619 Royal Street

Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand Street

Old School Apartments, 2512 N Robertson Street

Orleans Parish School Facilities Master Plan

Bivian Lee Jr. Center at Son of a Saint, 2803 St. Philip Street

Thirty60 Lofts, 3060 Dauphine Street

About Louisiana Landmarks Society

The Louisiana Landmarks Society is a non-profit 501(c)3 preservation advocacy organization established in 1950. With founders such as Samuel Wilson, Jr., and Martha Robinson, Landmarks rapidly defined preservation advocacy in New Orleans by leading the charge to preserve Gallier Hall in 1950 and defeat the proposed Riverfront Expressway a decade later. Today, the spirit of the organization’s founders lives on in Landmarks’ annual “New Orleans’ Nine Most Endangered” listing of at-risk historic properties. Landmarks’ preservation activities restored the c. 1799 Pitot House to its Creole West Indies colonial charm and current use as a site for preservation education.

Michael Mancuso, President

Anthony “Tony” Marino, 1st Vice President

William “Bill” G. Barry, Jr. , 2nd Vice President

Louise Saenz, Treasurer

Susan Couvillon, Assistant Treasurer

Keith Hardie, Recording Secretary

Edward “Ed” Deano

Margot Hammond

Ouida Laudumiey

Michael Reid

Lloyd “Sonny” Shields

Peter M. Wolf

James G. Derbes

Jessica Knox

Jim Goodwin

Brian Luckett

Celeste Marshall

Louis McFaul

Stacey Pfingsten, Executive Director, stacey@louisianalandmarks.org
Grace Mondillo, Event Coordinator, grace@louisianalandmarks.org