Working on getting National Historical Status

Paper can be used in many ways. It can be used to expend your discourse with someones attitude or show your gratitude towards someone.  It can display your achievements in this world or can summons you to court, in any case this time it is being used to plead with the National Historic Register to put my building on their very important list of buildings of importance to history.  It would seem it is not too much to ask and almost should be automatic, but without the proper paperwork and a good amount of it, your building may go on unoticed. 

After taking pictures of the exterior, the interior, each side and the architectural elements the photos are ready.  Research for the history is another story and not as easy as you would think with today's internet.  All historical pictures as far as I can find out have been lost in Katrina.  The history has been questionable with conflicting stories as to who and when it was built. 

First of all, I can not find the architect who built the church.  I was told it was the same person who built the St. Joseph's church on Tulane Avenue.  I can not find anything to support this at all.  I do know now it is an example of Queen Anne Revival architecture but that is where the story ends on the architectural history. 

The Church was first St. Johns Evangelical German Lutheran Church and second Grace United Methodist Church.  Both churches have since moved over to larger buildings on Canal Street just blocks away.  Neither church seems to know the history of the church themselves either. 

Well, the first part of the long process of the NHR is complete and being mailed today to see if they will consider my building as one of historical significance enough to be listed.