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EMERGENCY UPDATE: Auction Date Set for Courthouse!
http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2015/04/carrollton_courthouse_school_a.html#incart_river
As predicted, OPSB is going to try to auction our beloved Courthouse off before anyone can notice and have set the tentative sale date as sometime in mid to late May which means we are potentially less than 30 days away from losing this important part of history forever!
Please share. Please tell your friends and recruit their support toward sharing with their friends as well.
Yard signs are available and can be requested via the Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/carrollton/
via the Louisiana Landmarks Society's Courthouse page:
http://louisianalandmarks.org/preserve/save-carrollton-courthouse
Or, you can just email me directly drew.ward@gmail.com
Please help share the history of this important building!
Volunteer, donations, or media enquiries please contact me directly at drew.ward@gmail.com or via my cell (504) 638-8058
Thanks as always,
--drew
Drew Ward
Executive Director
The Carrollton Trust
New Orleans
Update: the photo below is a screen shot from OPSB's internal website from today. It includes the statement in red that auctions are soon and that means our time is short, so please get the word out!
New Orleans' most endangered historic property, the old Carrollton Courthouse, original home of Ben Franklin HS and the sole remaining public building from Carrollton's days as an independent city is in immediate danger of being auctioned by the school board, demolished, and replaced with another city block full of condos.
Please consider donating to support our efforts to save this important piece of our history, restore it to its original form (as pictured above), and to permanently protect it and preserve it as a public space for generations to come.
This, our first fundraising campaign has a goal of $5,000 as this is the minimum it'll take to get our main campaign and publicity effort going with yardsigns, banners, a website, and minimal printed materials along with covering the costs of establishing the nonprofit trust needed to attain ownership of the courthouse property from the school board. Your contributions will be used for funding the legal, public relations, marketing, and administrative costs this effort requires. Time is short, so please do what you can. Donations will be tax deductible so just ask if you need information on that.
Any non-monetary donations such as goods, services, or volunteer efforts are of course always welcome as well.
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