News Professor Eugene Cizek receives grant award.
Professor Eugene Cizek is the recipient of the 2008-2009 Historic Preservation Fund Award, which is presented by the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation. Professor Cizek, the Richard Koch Chair in Architecture is the founder and director of the Preservation Studies Program since 1997. Professor Cizek has made significant contributions to historic preservation in the state of Louisiana, and this award will support the Historic Jackson Barracks HABS project. The grant was awarded from the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (CRT) to produce an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) for the Historic Area of Jackson Barracks, built in the 1830s as protection against foreign invasion following the Battle of New Orleans. It is one of the largest collections of Greek Revival Architecture in the United States. The preservation studies program works directly with historic sites, neighborhood improvement associations, critical condition situations such as Katrina damage and other non-profit community organizations. In 1977, Cizek co-founded the Education Through Historic Preservation Program that utilizes historic resources as learning environments. Each year the program addresses a critical issue site, and assists in the restoration activities for the site. During the Spring 2009 Semester, the program will develop a cultural resource and economic development plan for the Historic Jackson Barracks, which suffered significant damage from Hurricane Katrina, along with its adjacent historic neighborhoods of Holy Cross in New Orleans, and Arabi in St. Bernard Parish which also sustained major damage.
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