Transcript: New Orleans School Among World Endangered Sites

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
10-06-2009
New Orleans School Among World Endangered Sites

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 20:00-21:00 PM


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The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School in New Orleans is in trouble. Built in 1954, the modernist school is elevated on large steel trusses, its playground directly below the classrooms. The school has been closed since Hurricane Katrina and it's slated for demolition. Well, today, Phillis Wheatley Elementary got a boost. It made it onto a watch list of endangered cultural sites put out by the World Monuments Fund.

John Klingman is a New Orleans architect and professor at the Tulane School of Architecture. And he's trying ...

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