A COZY START: At home in the Holy Cross neighborhood in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, Tracy Nelson has combined historic sensibility with energy efficiency in restoring the shotgun home ...

Two years ago, Renee Hernandez bought what she thought was her dream home from the Preservation Resource Center in Holy Cross. Chris Granger/The Times-PicayuneRenee Hernandez still needs to wear a ...

Over the decades, it has preserved dozens of homes, including shotguns in the Holy Cross neighborhood in New Orleans' Ninth Ward.

Holy Cross is full of indigenous New Orleans architecture, from shotgun houses to bungalows. But residents have been unable to survey damage since Katrina struck (though some have sneaked back in ...

“Shotgun” houses — typically narrow, rectangular, one-story structures featuring doors on each end with a straight “shot” from one to the other — are closely associated with New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS – Global Green USA will highlight the progress of the Holy Cross Project, a “green” community being built in the Lower 9th Ward, at 1 p.m. Wednesday at 409 Andry St. The first model home ...