It’s empty now – boarded-up, run-down and waiting. Has been since Hurricane Katrina notoriously delivered New Orleans its watery gut-check in 2005. But even in its abandoned state, the little temple on Live Oak Street in New Orleans’ Hollygrove neighborhood feels like something. Something special. Something important. Something that might soon be lost if people don’t take notice.… Read More Former Hollygrove church is vacant but not forgotten

In 1888, Henry Greenwall built in New Orleans what was described by The Daily Picayune as “what is without a doubt one of the most complete, comfortable and perfectly-constructed theaters ever built in this country.”… Read More Sarah Burnhardt performed there. Today it is a parking garage.

Sometimes, a real New Orleans place, after decades of relative anonymity, is given new life by a writer. Exhibit A: Madame John’s Legacy, at 632 Dumaine St. in the heart of the French Quarter.… Read More How an 1874 romance story gave one of the oldest French Quarter buildings its name

Designed by noted Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, it served the city from 1909 until it was unceremoniously demolished in 1955.… Read More End of the line: A look inside New Orleans’ old Southern Railway Terminal

A look at one of the most egregious examples of New Orleans’ historical habit of bartering its past in the name of progress.… Read More ‘This twilight air’: The rise and fall of New Orleans’ long-lost main library at Lee Circle

When it was built in 1926, it was known as “The Palace.” Nearly 50 years later, it would be one of the city’s more notorious homes.… Read More The Haunted House of Lakeview: The story behind a slow-motion New Orleans tragedy

Architecturally, it’s significant — but it’s that dark backstory that makes it truly memorable.… Read More The Sultan’s House: The haunted history of one of the French Quarter’s most photographed buildings