Construction and design are like a good book: New chapters come alive through details. It is the details that now are turning the once dormant Louisiana Children’s Museum location in a historic and now trendy New Orleans neighborhood into a revived 120,000-sq-ft residential and social space. This chapter of the building’s story, a structure that dates to the mid-19th century, connects its historic aspects with a five-story addition now underway.
The dual components of the project, referred to as Memoir and Common House, are located on Julia Street in the city’s storied Warehouse District. Often called Gallery Row, the area is witnessing a major revitalization. The former museum structure dates to the 1840s as a private home, later serving as a warehouse operated by the Port of New Orleans.