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2026 Winner of the Louisiana Landmark's Society Award for excellence in Historic Preservation. Three buildings on a single block of Prytania Street. Three distinct histories, three distinct personalities, and one coordinated rehabilitation that returned all of them to life at the same time.
The rehabilitation of 1746 and 1748 Prytania addressed two buildings that had accumulated decades of mid-century alterations alongside genuine deterioration. Though constructed decades apart, both shared a history of conversion from single-family residences to boarding house to hotel use, and both had been altered in ways that obscured rather than honored their original character. At 1746, the removal of acoustic tile and carpet revealed 12-foot ceilings, wood floors, plaster crown moulding, and a floating staircase that still reads as an early twentieth-century home. At 1748, peeling back a Perma-Stone veneer that had been applied sometime between 1955 and 1965 uncovered a remarkably intact Italianate facade, with original porch boards, window casings, and Italianate detailing concealed but entirely whole beneath it.
Bringing all three buildings into compliance with current life safety requirements demanded more than routine code work. Each structure carried its own set of constraints, tight floor plates, existing stair configurations, and the preservation requirement to avoid altering historic fabric wherever possible. The team developed circulation solutions that thread egress paths through the buildings in ways that read as deliberate design rather than reluctant accommodation, working within the existing geometry rather than against it.
The project received two Awards for Excellence in Preservation from the Louisiana Landmarks Society, recognition that reflects both the quality of the rehabilitation work and the significance of what was saved. CICADA worked alongside the owners, Toulouse Millworks, Logan Killen Interiors, and Southkick|Rolf Preservation Works across all three properties, a collaboration sustained over the full arc of a genuinely complex project.
Operator // Dear Valentine
Local Architect // CICADA
Interiors // Logan Killen
Construction & Owners Rep // Inhab Group
Photography // Augusta Sagnelli
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Overview
2026 Winner of the Louisiana Landmark's Society Award for excellence in Historic Preservation. Three buildings on a single block of Prytania Street. Three distinct histories, three distinct personalities, and one coordinated rehabilitation that returned all of them to life at the same time.
A STORIED
PAST
The rehabilitation of 1746 and 1748 Prytania addressed two buildings that had accumulated decades of mid-century alterations alongside genuine deterioration. Though constructed decades apart, both shared a history of conversion from single-family residences to boarding house to hotel use, and both had been altered in ways that obscured rather than honored their original character.
UNCONVERING THE FRONT
PORCH
The interiors boast nine bedrooms that unfold across a series of layered, textural interiors, private suites alongside courtyard rooms, spaces for gathering and for retreating, all held together by the kind of relaxed refinement that good preservation tends to produce.
Equipped with a grand double parlor, a spacious dining room, and three courtyard spaces that open the property to the particular pleasures of New Orleans outdoor living. Together they offer guests something the Lower Garden District does well when its buildings are treated with care: a slower, more intentional rhythm of stay, rooted in the actual history of the place rather than a version of it.
