2023 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award: TEP Center
Channel: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Date: 2023-11-16

Tate, Etienne, and Prevost (TEP) Center | New Orleans, Louisana
The McDonogh No.19 Public School was one of two schools first desegregated in New Orleans and across the Deep South. Leona Tate, one of the “McDonogh Three” who attended the formerly white-only school on November 14, 1960, now co-owns the renamed Tate, Etienne & Prevost Center. McDonogh was redeveloped into an adaptive reuse space that includes an interpretive center dedicated to teaching New Orleans’ history of school desegregation and the broader Civil Rights Movement, an anti-racism educational and training space, and 25 affordable apartments for senior households.

Presented at PastForward 2023 in Washington, DC. Learn more at https://savingplaces.org/conference