Homes of New Orleans by Nick Forest

Homes of New Orleans

St. Bernard Project.. . . . 4 Architectural Styles.. . . . .31 Make it Right.. . . . . . . . . . . . 69

St. Bernard Project 4.

Over the course of my term with the St. Bernard Project, I’ve had the pleasure of helping to restore many homes for families all around New OrleansW. Highlighted within the next several pages are just a few of the homes that I had the honor of helping. From my role as a construction coordinator to volunteerting, it’s been an amazing experience helping to bring our clients back to their homes’.

5010 Frankfort St.

1518 Lesseps St.

1028 Flanders St.

2921 Kent Dr. 3636 Timber Wolf Ln.

House Location

- Map provided by City of New Orleans Property Viewer

5010 Frankfort St. 6.

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Bio: “Ten years after Katrina, Trenise has finally been able to return to New Orleans to rebuild her life. She is currently living in her damaged house without electricity. Her only power comes from a pole outside that allows her to use a heater and a microwave. Durrell is in a residential treatment facility making significant progress. Quentin lives in Washington D.C. with his father and will graduate high school this year Trenise is currently working as both a security guard and in manual labor to make ends meet while training for a career working with youth with disabilities in a group home. She wants to give back because people have given to her, and when Trenise’s home is rebuilt, she plans to volunteer to help others come home. Once she has a safe space for her family, their plan is for Quentin to attend college in the area and for Durrell to attend a special education program. Her journey has been long and arduous, but Trenise has hope that her dream of bringing her boys home will come true. “- St. Bernard Project Development

-Downstairs living space

The scope of work included: 1. Enclose bottom of stairs. 2. Frame columns and header between Kitchen and Living Room. (8’-11” L.ft.) 3. Install joist hangers at all second floor floor joists. 4. Frame in new Bifold doors at Bedroom #2 closets. 5. Install new kitchen cabinets. (15 L.ft.) 6. Install new wood handrails on interior stairs. 7. Install new wood railing on second floor at stairs. 8. Frame new walls at Bathroom #2. (12 L.ft.) (See plans) 9. Install new French doors at side Living Room entry. 10. Rewire house completely 11. Install new ductwork. 12. Install one 3 ton central air and heat unit. 13. Install new supply lines 14. Install new Hardi siding to replace damaged. Prime and paint all Hardi siding.

-Upstairs bathroom

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-Downstairs living space

-Main Living: Looking into the kitchen

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-Upstairs office space

-Upstairs Office: Looking down the hall

-Master bedroom: Looking at the closet

1518 Lesseps St. 1.

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BIO: “Ms. Patricia and Ahmahii returned to New Orleans in 2008. Her house had taken in six feet of water; almost everything she owned was lost. They were inexplicably denied a FEMA trailer so they moved in with her daughter’s godmother for the next couple of years while trying to secure funds and contractors to rebuild. Unfortunately, like so many New Orleanians post-Katrina, Ms. Patricia fell victim to contractor fraud: an electrician performed unsafe and incomplete work on her home, then her newly purchased copper pipes were stolen.” - St. Bernard Project Development

- Left Facade

We began construction on Ms. Patricia’s home in early March of 2015. The job lasted 3 months, with our final inspection and closing being held in June. I’m attached to this home because I was able to participate in the construction process. I helped in frame in the laundry door, windows and baseboard. As a construction coordinator we don’t always get the chance to help in the rebuilding of the homes we manage, so being able to assist at 1518 Lesseps meant a lot to me. The scope of work included: 1. Install new gutters (70 L.Ft.) 2. Frame new window sill at front window. (7 L.ft.) 3. Repair any damaged framing in bathroom from demo. 4. Repair chain link fence in rear of backyard. (30 L.ft.) 5. Frame supports in bathroom for ADA pull bars in shower. 6. Frame new cantilevered laundry closet off of existing kitchen at existing laundry door location. (25 Sq.ft.) A-1. Frame new stud walls up to existing ceiling height of house in Laundry room. A-1. Frame new roof rafters from upper rear roof ridge over existing Laundry room. A-1. Frame new floor joist and deck even with existing house finish floor in Laundry room. A-1. Frame new rough openings for windows in Laundry room.

-Rear Facade

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-Welcome Home Party

-Rear Entrance

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3636 Timber Wolf Ln.

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BIO: Keion and JaQuan left New Orleans when they heard Katrina was moving closer. They bounced from Baton Rouge to Dallas, and remained there for a year. When they finally made it back to New Orleans, Keion learned that her place of employment had shut down, JaQuan’s school was closed, and she was left with an immense amount of water damage due to a destroyed roof and gaping holes in the siding of her home. Keion soon found a new job as a social worker with Louisiana Spirit Hurricane Recovery and set about rebuilding her life and her home. She received money through the Road Home Program to complete the repairs to the inside on her home, but when she hired a contractor to elevate her home, he took her money and never completed the work. She spent months looking for the individual who was responsible for this terrible crime, but never found him. In 2012, JaQuan found his mom in bed having a seizure. Keion was rushed to Ochsner Hospital, where she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors were hopeful that they could reduce the size of the tumor with medication instead of surgery and they were successful!” - St. Bernard Project Development

-Rear Facade

3636 Timber Wolf thus far represents my proudest moment while serving as a construction coordinator for SBP. On June 8, the zoning variance for Timber Wolf was approved by the New Orleans Board of Zoning Adjustments. A great victory for my team and I. It allowed us to complete Ms. Smith’s home and turn it back into a place of peace and comfort. Ms. Smith was also blessed by Event Pros Take Action and the Design Angels. This group of professionals furnished Ms. Smith’s entire home, creating a lively and vibrant atmosphere throughout the whole house. The scope of work included: 1. Frame new wall at existing garage door opening. (56 Sq.ft.) 2. Frame new laundry room wall in garage enclosure. 3. Frame new 2”x4” sub floor, deck and install underlay and laminate.

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-Front Facade: Garage

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-Converted Garage

-Front Facade: Garage

-Main Living Room

2921 Kent Dr.

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-Front Porch

BIO: “When the storm hit, Marion evacuated with her family to western Louisiana. She returned in September of 2005 to find a tree through her roof. The damaged resulted in massive water leakage, which destroyed her floors and caused an extensive mold outbreak. She says she will never forget the smell of her home during those early days - the stench of a rancid, rotting food emanating from a non-functioning refrigerator permeated everything. Marion was luckier than most - she received a FEMA trailer fairly quickly. She lived in the trailer on her property for two years, while her home was under construction. Joy was soon replaced by despair: her contractor used substandard building materials. The exterior of her home is deteriorating and new water damage has emerged.” - St. Bernard Project Development 2921 Kent Dr. proved to be a bigger challenge than we expected. An asbestos problem kept us from working on the house for at least 3 weeks, pushing our completion date back farther than anticipated. We then had trouble completing work inside of the home; due to the overwhelming amount of clothing and other items, maneuvering within the space was tough for our team. With a little bit of perserverance and regrouping we developed a plan that enabled us to complete the home. The scope of work includes: Install new sheathing and Tyvek on sides of house where fiber board removed. (600 Sq.ft.) 2. Install new Hardi siding on sides of house. (600 Sq.ft.) 3. Install new sheathing and Tyvek above front façade windows. 4. Install Hardi trim over the top of front façade windows. 5. Install all new soffit and fascia around house. (190 L.ft.) 6. Frame garage door enclosure and install (1) new window. 7. Install new sheathing and Tyvek around new window. 8. Install Hardi siding at Garage door enclosure. 9. Install new sheathing and Tyvek on rear of house where fiber board removed. (200 Sq.ft.) 23.

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-Right Facade

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1028 Flanders St.

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BIO: “The Ferrand’s home made it through Katrina, but the winds and rains of Hurricanes Gustav (2008) and Isaac (2012) left their property severely damaged. They had flood insurance, but their insurance provider determined that the damage to their home was not a result of flooding; they refused to provide any funds. Defeated, they contacted their homeowners insurance in hopes of a better answer - they received a very small payout from their homeowners insurance. It helped, but it wasn’t enough - Dorothy and Jesse could not afford to make the necessary repairs to their damaged home. They currently live in a small rental property in New Orleans. The Ferrands live on a fixed income and pay rent and a mortgage.” - St. Bernard Project Development Mrs. Ferrand’s home required a complete restructuring. The home needed to be re-configured to make it easier for her husband to live in the home. Unfortunately, the weekend before we completed her, Mrs. Ferrand’s husband passed away. My team and I’s only regret, is that wish we had completed her home sooner, so that Mr. Ferrand had the chance to live in it.

-Kitchen

The scope of work includes: 1. Install new framing in select areas. ( 36 L.ft.) 2. Verify existing door openings and install new interior doors. (13) 3. Install Hurricane Ties. 4. Install new 22.5” x 54” attic stairs per plan. 5. Replace any termite and water damaged framing 6. Frame new kitchen as shown on plan. 7. Frame Laundry room as shown on plan 8. Verify condition of all existing rough openings 9. Re-frame any damaged fascia 10. Frame new closet in laundry 11. Frame new closet in Bedroom #2 12. Frame Bathroom #1 per plans 13. Frame Bathroom #2 per plan

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-Master Bedroom

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-Kitchen

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-Living Area/ Dining

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Architectural Styles 31.

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“The Arts and Crafts style in New Orleans is a combination of influences from the California Craftsman style, the English Arts and Crafts style, and the Prairie-style bungalows of the Mid-West. Early examples of the style arrived in New Orleans around 1900, but it was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Common design themes of the style include: the use of unadorned structural building parts, such as rafter tails, fascia boards, and roof and porch beams as decorative elements; the use of “natural” or “rustic” materials such as wood shingle siding and either roughhewn masonry or rusticated concrete block, often in combination; and the presence of deep porches, with robustporch columns and overhanging eaves. In addition to these design elements, high-style Arts and Crafts residences frequently have irregular bungalow floor plans; rectilinear window bays; heavy, horizontal massing; windows composed of many small patterned panes and/or leaded glass windows; and, frequently, oversized windows under the porch overhang. They may also be raised a half story above grade, with a masonry or stucco foundation wall. Arts and Crafts shotguns are also fairly common in New Orleans. Typically, on these structures the style is expressed through doors and windows with square or rectangular panes or patterns, plain shingles or wood cladding and tapered wood porch columns, usually with masonry bases.” -City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The basic Bungalow typology probably originated in India, Indonesia, or the South Pacific and was imported to Britain in the 19th century by Britons who had lived in those areas. The Bungalow type did not become popular in the United States until just after 1900, when it was strongly associated with the Arts and Crafts or Craftsman style. The Bungalow type achieved its greatest early popularity and stylistic development in California. The Bungalow type began to appear in New Orleans after the First World War, and continued in popularity until at least the 1950s. The basic Bungalow is a 1- to 1-1/2 story residence, usually about as wide as it is deep, with a moderately irregular floor plan, reflecting the internal room arrangement and sometimes incorporating bay window projections. Buildings in the Bungalow type almost invariably have a substantial front porch that may be incorporated under the main roof or project in front of the main roof structure. Bungalow-type residences are usually asymmetrical in composition, with complex roof plans, including gable on hip, cross-gabled, or more complex plans, frequently with substantial dormer windows. The Bungalow type is typically found in the Arts and Crafts style, but may also show motifs of other early 20th century architectural styles, such as the Colonial Revival.â&#x20AC;? - City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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“The Center Hall Cottage is a vernacular building type that is common throughout the American South and the Caribbean. Its origins no doubt predate its use in New Orleans, where it began to occur in its typical raised form in the 1830s and ‘40s. The Center Hall has a rectangular plan, typically at least 2 rooms wide and 2 deep with a central hallway running from the front façade to the rear, and 2 small storage rooms (cabinets) to either side on the rear, flanking a rear service porch. Center Hall Cottages have side gabled roofs, often with dormer windows. The front façade of the typical Center Hall is spanned by a deep front porch covered by a flat roof supported by symmetrically placed columns and accessed by a central stair. It has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, usually two to either side of the front entry door. Center Hall Cottages are most frequently sheathed in wood weatherboard, although the exact type will vary according to style. A variant of the Center Hall Cottage is the Raised Center Hall Cottage, typically raised on piers to five feet or more above grade. Greek Revival and Italianate Center Hall Cottages are most common in New Orleans, but the type can be found in other styles including Queen Anne/Eastlake and other Victorian styles.” -City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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“The Creole style, while often thought of as a “French Colonial” style, in fact is an architectural style developed in New Orleans. It represents a melding of the French, Spanish and Caribbean architectural influences in conjunction with the demands of the hot, humid climate of New Orleans. As the aesthetics of American architecture were accepted within the Creole population, the style died out in favor of more fashionable styles. Hallmarks of the Creole style include simplicity, brick, stucco or weatherboard exterior walls, large six over six windows, French doors, no dominant entrances and shutters attached with strap hinges on all windows and doors. In 2-story Creole townhouses or mixed use buildings, fanlights above ground floor windows often open to provide ventilation and can provide illumination to an entresol or mezzanine. Unroofed second floor galleries with wrought iron railings were often added after 1850. It is unusual to find buildings where the Creole style is liberally mixed with another architectural style. Most frequently, one might find a Creole style building that has been modified by placing Italianate brackets under galleries or roof overhangs.”-City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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“The Creole Cottage is the earliest remaining local housing type in the City of New Orleans. It is a vernacular type – typically designed and built by the owners and builders to fit local needs – and heavily influenced by both French and Spanish construction methods and the local climate. The typical Creole Cottage is 1 to 1-1/2 stories tall, 2 rooms wide and 2 rooms deep, often with small storage rooms (cabinets) attached at the rear to each side. Creole Cottages have hipped or side gabled roofs, frequently with tall, narrow gabled dormer windows. A typical Creole Cottage façade is symmetrical with four openings, usually four sets of French doors or two sets of French doors and two double hung windows, all shuttered. Smaller Creole Cottages 1 room wide by 2 rooms deep, with only one door and a window (a “2-bay cottage”) also occur, although less frequently. The front façade is typically sheltered from the weather by an overhang (abat-vent) that directs rain away from the front façade and windows. Earlier Creole Cottages are typically of brick between posts or masonry construction with smooth plaster or wood weatherboard sheathing. Later Creole Cottages are often of frame construction with wood weatherboard siding. While the Creole Cottage is a vernacular type with minimal stylistic features, cottages built at different times may exhibit subtle stylistic details of their period, such as arched or flat-topped windows, dentil moldings, and “Greek Key” door surrounds. In some cases, Itali49. anate details were added to update older cottages.” - City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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“During the 18th and early 19th centuries, in both the newly formed United States and in Europe, the architecture and arts of the classical world were adopted as symbols of democracy. The Greek Revival style is strongly associated in the popular mind with the southern United States, although it is a style that appeared throughout the country. Hallmark elements of the style as it appears in New Orleans include wide, flat, plain, often “Greek key” design or pedimented trim around windows and doors and full height porches with classical round columns or boxed piers. Roofs may be front gabled or hipped, and porches may be topped with triangular, flat, or stepped pediments and/ or wide, plain entablatures, often with dentil molding. Building finishes are usually plain in style, and frequently the primary cladding is stucco or wood scored to look like stone blocks. Originally, these may have been painted in two colors to make them more closely resemble classical masonry. The Greek Revival style is often associated with mansions, plantation houses and institutional or commercial buildings, but it was also popular on more modest residences, such as Cottages and Shotguns of all types.”-City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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The Italianate style is a 19th century interpretation of the architectural motifs of Italian Renaissance and Northern Italian vernacular architecture. The style was popular in England and the American East Coast beginning in the 1840s, and took hold in New Orleans in the 1850s. It was a very popular style during the 1860s and 1870s, and some of its elements appeared in a mixture with other styles until at least 1900. Common characteristics of the Italianate style include tall, double hung, four-overfour, two-over-two or two-overone windows with arched heads and hood moldings, symmetrical facades, hipped roofs, frequently hidden behind a parapet. Italianate-style buildings have horizontally protruding eaves visually supported by brackets, single or paired. Cladding on primary facades is usually weatherboard or wood drop butt siding, often with weatherboard on secondary facades. Corners are typically marked by molded or carved quoins, typically small raised blocks mounted on a flat board. Elements of the Italianate style can be found mixed with other, later styles, most strikingly in the large number of “bracketed” shotgun type houses. This very popular hybrid style usually features oversized carved or turned wood brackets supporting a deep front overhang, Italianate window forms, drop siding, carvedquoins, and Queen Anne “gingerbread” embellishment.” -City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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The earliest known examples of Shotgun type houses in New Orleans date at least to the 1830s. Shotgun houses bear a strong resemblance to Caribbean house types prevalent in the 18th century, and some historians suggest it may have been imported to New Orleans in the early 19th century. Whatever its origins, this highly efficient and comparatively inexpensive building type was so popular among both the middle and working classes for over a century that it is probably the most prevalent historic building type in the city. The simplest Shotgun type house is the “single Shotgun,” a long narrow structure 1 room wide and 3 to 5 rooms deep, with each room opening onto the next. In addition to the Shotgun single, the Shotgun type includes “Shotgun doubles,” “Camelback Shotguns,” “Sidehall Shotguns,” and “Side Gallery Shotguns.” The typical Shotgun single façade consists of a door and window, usually shuttered, which may or may not feature a porch or deep overhang to offer protection from the weather. The typical Shotgun has a front gabled or hipped roof. The Shotgun double is essentially a twinned single, a 2-unit residence with a symmetrical façade of two doors and windows, each unit 1 room wide and 3 to 5 rooms deep with no interior hallway. Shotgun doubles usually have a front roof overhang and may or may not have a front porch providing shelter from the elements. The Camelback Shotgun is essentially a Shotgun single or a Shotgun double, with a second story rising at the rear portion of the building. The second story originated as a vertical addition to increase living space, but was later built as a part of the original house. The Sidehall Cottage and Side Gallery Shotguns are very similar in form. Their front façades usually are 3 bays wide with two windows and a front door. Similar to Shotguns, they are each 1 room wide and 3 to 6 rooms deep. Unlike Shotguns, both Sidehall and Side Gallery Shotguns include a passageway that runs most of the length of the house. The difference between the Sidehall Cottage and Side Gallery Shotgun types is that the side passage in a Sidehall Cottage is a conventional hallway, while in the Side Gallery Shotgun it is a narrow covered side porch. A hybrid of these two types can be found in which the front door opens onto a side hall 1 room deep, and then onto a side gallery. Shotgun type buildings can be found with façade decorations, windows and doors, and front porch designs reflecting every architectural style popular in New Orleans from 1830-1950. In addition, there are many humbler, purely utilitarian Shotgun type buildings that have little to no stylistic embellishment.” - City of New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission

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Make it Right 69.

“Founded by Brad Pitt, in effforts to rebuild New Orleans’ Lower 9th ward the Make it Right is based on Pitt’s belief that he “could build safe, sustainable homes in the most devastated part of New Orleans, we would prove that highquality, green housing could be built affordably everywhere. Led by GRAFT architects, the organization convened 21 world-renowned architects to design climate-adapted, eco-friendly homes, informed by William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle design principles. Over the course of many months, Pitt and the architects, who volunteered their time and work, met with Lower 9th Ward homeowners and community leaders to talk about their rebuilding needs and collaborate on home designs. Make It Right kicked off initial fundraising efforts with the Pink Project in December 2007 and broke ground on the first homes with President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative in March 2008. Construction began in June 2008 and the first six homes were completed in August 2008.” - Make it Right Foundation

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