Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans

The PRC preserves New Orleans' historic architecture, neighborhoods and cultural identity through collaboration, empowerment and service to our community.

The PRC is New Orleans' premier nonprofit focused on the preservation and revitalization of our city's historic architecture and neighborhoods. The PRC celebrates the cultural heritage of the people who bring our buildings and communities to life.

PRC restores.
Since 1974, the PRC has renovated more than 1,500 buildings, helping to restore historic neighborhoods. In 2024, PRC completed the restoration of the 1820s Perseverance Hall in Tremé.

PRC revitalizes.
The PRC offers classes and programs to teach hands-on information for renovating historic buildings, maintaining old houses in New Orleans, and more. It provides funding for home repairs to help low-income homeowners, helping to keep generational homeowners in place and neighborhoods intact.

PRC preserves New Orleans' authenticity.
With the addition of Save Our Cemeteries in early 2025, PRC continues the work of preserving the city's iconic historic cemeteries. We hold more than 140 easements on significant buildings across the state, ensuring their protection forever. And we advocate against unnecessary demolition of historic buildings and for policies that enhance quality of life in historic neighborhoods.

Testimonials

The PRC is helping just regular people, especially the ones that are seniors. It was getting to be scary the way I was seeing things around my house that there was nothing I could do about, and I couldn't find anybody to help me. Just the idea of the PRC contacting me and doing the work they did, even that just gives you hope and makes you feel so much better, because we all know so many people who lost their homes or were priced out of their homes in all kinds of ways. Darlene Jones, homeowner