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