NCPTT joined Tulane School of Architecture, Preservation Trades Network and Save our Cemeteries to host “Cities of the Dead: Above-Ground Cemetery Preservation, Conservation, Documentation Methodology and History,” July 13-31, in New Orleans, La.
Topics included appropriate treatments for 19th century above-ground tombs, lime-based building technology in plaster, mortar, limewash, and masonry applications, architectural history, preservation technology, landscape architecture, funerary iconography, and the history of New Orleans Cemeteries.