January 14th • History of OGM
Speaker: Diane Finley & Rae Williams
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
February 11th • Lincoln the Politician
Speaker: Gov. Buddy Roemer
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
February 16th • Lagniappe Tours Day Trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
On Fat Tuesday, February 16th, Foundation for Historical Louisiana members and friends will once again swing on down to the Big Easy to celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans! A deluxe motorcoach will travel from Baton Rouge to the Crescent City, leaving from the parking lot at the Mall of Louisiana (near Macy’s) at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
Call 225.387.2464 for reservations.
March 25th • Lunch & Learn: Housing Typologies and Styles
Presented by: Erin Michelle Brush
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion at Noon.
March 25th • “It Takes a Village to be Sustainable”
Various Adaptive reuse project by H/S Architects in Historic Downtown Hammond
Speaker: Jeffrey Smith, AIA
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion at 6:00pm
April 22nd • “Winding Through Time: The forgotten history and present-day peril of Bayou Manchac”
Speaker: Mary Ann Sternberg (book signing too)
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion at 6:00pm
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May • National Preservation Month
May 4th • Eat & Drink for Preservation!
In support of the Community Fund for the Arts Bistro Byronz Baton Rouge is hosting benefit nights for the 14 CFA partner organizations.
The Foundation for Historical Louisiana’s night is Tuesday, May 4th.
20% of your food and beverage purchases will be donated to the Foundation for Historical Louisiana
May 25th • Historic Preservation: Tax Incentives 101
Speaker: Alison Saunders
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
Time: 5:30pm to 6:30pm
May 26th • "Within and Beyond the Walls of the Old St. Gabriel Church"
Speaker: David Broussard
Furniture Conservator, featuring an exhibition on the early church
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
Time: Refreshments at
6:00pm, Lecture starts at 6:30pm
The Old St. Gabriel Church appears on its face as a fairly typical late 19th century Gothic Revival wood frame church, but what lies beneath its surface is a rare 18th century early Creole Colonial structure that is the oldest church structure in the Mississippi Valley.
David presents historical background and details that describe the building of the church in the 1770's by the Acadian settlers of the St. Gabriel and the Spanish colonial government. And I will provide physical evidence from within the walls of the building as the basis for determining what the church looked like when first built in 1776 and how that original form is a rare example of the earliest Creole architecture of the Louisiana.
David Broussard: Furniture Conservator, featuring an exhibition on the early St. Gabriel Church
David Broussard has worked in the field of historic preservation for the past 33 years as a building restoration craftsman and as a furniture conservator. In 1989, he was awarded preservationist of the year by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana due to his restoration of a 1799 Creole house from St. John the Baptist parish. In the 1970s and 80s, he was involved in numerous historic building projects while working for historic building contractor Sid Gray. Broussard also began his furniture making career in the late 70s and eventually was also doing furniture conservation work.
Broussard has become renowned for his conservation work with early Louisiana furniture particularly the Louisiana armoire. He has worked on over one hundred Louisiana armoires. He has also worked for numerous museums, historic tourist attractions, and private furniture collectors.
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June 3rd • "Island in a Storm" Preservation Salon
Speaker: Dr. Abby Sallenger
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion at 6:00pm
A Heritage Lecture featuring author Abby Sallenger in a discussion on his book “Island in a Storm: a Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World.”
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June 5th - 8th • Preservation Leadership Training by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
July 15th • "Bayou Bijou: Movies Made in Louisiana"
Speaker: Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne
Location: 502 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Old Governor's Mansion
Free to FHL members; $10 guests
Refreshments compliments of Calandro's Fine Cellars, 6 p.m.
Lecture at 6:30 p.m.
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July 22nd • 34th Annual Preservation Awards Banquet
The event will feature and honor individuals named as the 2010 Preservation Award recipients. Those chosen by the FHL Preservation Awards Committee this year are:
- Lenore Feeney and Randy Walsh, creators of the popular cemetery drama, Magnolia’s Memories
- Christina Vella of New Orleans, teacher, author and scholar.
- Davis Rhorer, Executive Director of the Downtown Development District, Van Mayhall, Jr. Commission Chairman, Commissioners and staff for their efforts and advocacy to create a Third Street Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places earlier this year
- James LeBlanc , Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections and Andy Simon, Baton Rouge restoration contractor, for their wood window restoration project for trustees.
- The LSU Press on its 75th anniversary and its record of volumes related to Louisiana’s heritage.
- The Roosevelt Hotel of New Orleans for restoration excellence and re-opening in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
- FHL Volunteer of the Year.
Reserved tickets for the event are $75 per person for FHL members and $85 for guests. A reservation for a table of ten is $750. The event will be held in the 10th floor ballroom of the Hilton Capitol Center, formerly the historic Heidelberg Hotel, a building FHL has championed for many years. Cocktail Hour with a cash bar will begin at 6 p.m. Dinner and the program will follow at 7 p.m. with Leo Honeycutt emcee.
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July 29th • Heritage Lecture "The Wetlands"
Speaker: Don Davis
Location: 502 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Old Governor's Mansion
Free to FHL members; $10 guests
Refreshments compliments of Calandro's Fine Cellars, 6 p.m.
Lecture at 6:30 p.m.
DONALD W. DAVIS has been involved in Louisiana coastal-related research for more than forty years. Davis relocated from California to South Louisiana in 1967 to attend Nicholl's State (Ph.D., 1973). Davis served as a Professor of Geography at Nicholls State University for many years before returning to LSU in 1990. Davis also administered the Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program and the Governor’s Applied Coastal Research and Development Program. Davis’ research has resulted in over one-hundred publications in books, journals, monographs, proceedings, and contract surveys. In all of his work, he has emphasized the importance of humankind in landscape evolution and change. Davis is currently administering a Louisiana Sea Grant project to develop an extensive oral history of the Louisiana Wetlands.
August 7th • Battle of Baton Rouge Commemorative Ceremony
Location: Historic Magnolia Cemetery
August 12th • "Mold Remediation"
Speaker: Claudette Reichel, Ed.D
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
This program is made possible in part by a Local Project Assistance Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, funded by the Mayor-President and Baton Rouge Metro Council.
August 28th • “Long’s Assassination”
A collaborative event with Secretary of State’s office and the Old State Capitol
This program is made possible in part by a Local Project Assistance Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, funded by the Mayor-President and Baton Rouge Metro Council.
October 12th - 17th • Southeastern Museum Conference in Baton Rouge
Location: TBA
October 21st • 12th Annual FHL Gala
Theme: TBA
Location: Old Governor's Mansion
October 26th - 30th • National Preservation Conference
Location: Austin, TX
November 9th •“Little Pink House”
Speaker: Jeff Benedict
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion at 6:00pm
This program is made possible in part by a Local Project Assistance Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, funded by the Mayor-President and Baton Rouge Metro Council.
December • Holiday Open House
Location: Old Governor’s Mansion
