The front of 1001 Carondelet/The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.

1001 Carondelet Apartments / Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

This transformational historic renovation in the heart of New Orleans’ Warehouse District converted a former law firm into luxury apartments, office space, and the new home of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. After having spent the last several decades operating out of a tiny summer camp near Utica, Mississippi, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience now occupies the bottom two floors of the building, which is appropriately situated in the city’s well-trafficked Warehouse District within blocks of the National WWII Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Arts Center, the new Culinary and Hospitality Institute, and the Southern Food & Beverage Museum.

The scope for this project consisted of the restoration of existing wood windows, repairing existing stucco and masonry, metal panel wall systems, removing/replacing the existing parking lot, and installing new underground utilities, in addition to two new elevators, sprinkler, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and fire alarm systems. Landis completed the museum build-out on the first floor, tenant apartments on the second through fourth floors, and a community space and rooftop terrace on the fifth floor with little to no disruption to the surrounding roadways or buildings, including the headquarters of WDSU News located directly behind the construction site.

The COVID-19 Site Specific Safety Plan that Landis submitted for this project was absolutely fantastic – the most in-depth, detailed I have seen thus far throughout this pandemic. Landis continues to go above and beyond while most other general contractors simply saying they’re ‘following CDC guidelines.’ Thank you to the entire Landis project team for their continued commitment to the safety and well-being of their staff, partners, and surrounding community.

— Norbert Lathan, ESC Safety Consultants

Historic Preservation, Hospitality, Multi-Family Residential
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Civic
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Education
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Healthcare
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Historic Preservation
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Hospitality
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Industrial
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Multi-Family Residential
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Office/Retail
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Sustainability

Square Footage 34,084

Completion October 1, 2020

Architect Duplantis Design Group, PC

2021 Excellence in Construction Award (New Orleans Bayou) from ABC
Louisiana Landmarks Society Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation
An aerial shot of 1001 Carondelet / The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.
The back door of 1001 Carondelet, with a modern facade and a cheerful flowerbed full of pink, white, and purpble flowers.
The front of 1001 Carondelet/The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.
Aerial drone shot of the 1001 Carondelet building.
An exhibit at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, showing a wedding dress and shoes in a display case, and, further into the room, a wooden cart.
An exhibit at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience showing a store shelf with a sign reading "Seligman's", a wooden cart with a crate beside it, and in the background, a wedding dress.
An exhibit at the Museum of the Southern Jewish experience, with a wall timeline labeled "Entering a New Era".
An exhibit in the Museum of the Southern Experience with a wall plaque labeled "Foundations of Judaism". Artifacts like a tall menorah are displayed down the center of the hallway, with a wall-height screen in the back playing a video, and above the exhibit several square stained-glass artworks are suspended from the ceiling on wires.
An exhibit at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience with wall plaques labeled "Words and Sounds of Judaism" and "Jewish Beliefs and Practices". In the display cases are a Torah scroll, a Torah mantle with yellow fringe, and a shofar.
An exhibit space in the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, with a wall plaque reading "The Mezuzah Society" beside a piece of art with many mezuzot (plural of mezuzah) tiled together.
An open space decorated in black, white, and gray hexagons with wood flooring and exposed brick walls. A gray marble sink and countertop sit in the middle of the space.
A kitchen and dining room space, with exposed brick walls and white cabinets.
A kitchen space with a gray marble sink and exposed brick walls.
A living room with a comfortable chaise and abstract art hanging above it. A plant sits next to the open window.
A bedroom with exposed brick walls and a modern ceiling fan with 3 triangular blades.
A bedroom with exposed brick walls and two large windows. Art hangs above the bed.
A closet with white doors and a small bench and shelving set into a corner between it and the exposed brick wall, which has large windows.
A sunny rooftop patio space with wooden furniture and planters.

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