DOCOMOMO New Orleans

DOCOMOMO - New Orleans is the local chapter of the international working party for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement.


Design Within Reach is hosting an event to celebrate the group committed to defending our threatened modern masterpieces. We're looking for members to move our mission forward.

Thursday, June 26, 6-9 pm

DWR New Orleans Studio
3138 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
Phone: 504. 891. 6520


Supreme Court Building, Civic Center
(THREATENED)
from the Annual Report of the Mayor of New Orleans: 1955-1956
New Orleans Virtual Archive, Tulane School of Architecture

Phillis Wheatley Elementary School (THREATENED)
photo: Frank Lotz Miller
Courtesy the Estate of Charles Colbert

Civic Center, Civil Courts Building (THREATENED)
from the Annual Report of the Mayor of New Orleans: 1955-1956
New Orleans Virtual Archive, Tulane School of Architecture

The Rivergate
(DEMOLISHED)
photo: Frank Lotz Miller
Tulane Libraries, Special Collections, Southeastern Architectural Archive

St. Frances Cabrini Church
(DEMOLISHED)
photo: Frank Lotz Miller
Tulane Libraries, Special Collections, Southeastern Architectural Archive


graphics: Brad Brooks and Ginette Bone