Episode 1 of 10 of The This Old House New Orleans Project premiered on WYES-TV Thursday, January 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Watch the New Orleans episodes Thursdays at 7pm through April 2008. Each episode is 30 minutes long, with Ask This Old House following.
The New Orleans episodes will repeat on Saturdays, beginning February 9th at 8:30am.
From left to right:
General contractor Carl Hithe, architect Rick Fifield, homeowner Rashida Ferdinand, This Old House master carpenter Norm Abram, and host Kevin O'Connor.
This Old House (TOH) travels to New Orleans to tell a multi-faceted story about the recovery and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina.
Producers of TOH worked with the City of New Orleans and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu's office to find potential candidates for this project. In June 2007, TOH producers met with more than 35 New Orleans-area homeowners, many of them Historic Building Recovery Grant program recipients in the neighborhoods of Mid City, Broadmoor, Lakeview, Uptown and Holy Cross. After a thorough review process, Rashida Ferdinand was selected.
Thirty-two and single, Ferdinand is a fourth generation New Orleans resident. Her home is a c. 1892 Creole-style shotgun single located in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward. She is an accomplished ceramicist with degrees from both Howard and Syracuse Universities .
The This Old House New Orleans project focuses mainly on the renovation of Ferdinand's home, but the ten brand new episodes also feature the story of the Musicians Village , an endeavor in the Upper Ninth Ward designed to both construct a community and preserve a culture.
This is the Emmy Award-winning series' second venture to New Orleans . In 1991, TOH renovated an 1895 Shotgun Double in
Algiers Point.
This THIS OLD HOUSE New Orleans Project is generously sponsored by:
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Photos taken by WYES Promotion Manager Aislinn Hinyup on 12-17-07. The remodeling seems to be moving along really well. The production team was at a stand-still on the day we visited the set, due to the fact that the crew's luggage was lost.
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