About the Program

The Preservation Resource Center's Operation Comeback promotes the purchase, renovation and sale of vacant historic properties. Started in 1987, as a focused effort to revitalize the Lower Garden District, Operation Comeback rapidly expanded and now works with dozens of neighborhood associations and community development corporations citywide. By acquiring and renovating blighted and adjudicated properties, most would consider hopeless, Operation Comeback provides homes for first-time and repeat homebuyers, serving as a catalyst for the rebirth of New Orleans’ historic neighborhoods. In the effort to put as many properties back into the hands of families as possible, Operation Comeback has developed several ways for many to become involved. The OC Revolving Fund, Adopt a House program and the Rebuilding Communities Programme / Building Crafts Apprentices all allow individuals, organizations, foundations and corporations to aid in the renovation or construction of homes through donations and volunteering, and education.

Adopt a House

On July 1, 2008, Operation Comeback launched the Adopt a House program in an effort to give an individual, organization, foundation, or corporation an opportunity to aid in providing a newly constructed or renovated home to a potential homebuyer, at an affordable price, in one of New Orleans' targeted historic neighborhoods, through donations and volunteer efforts.

The Prince’s Rebuilding Communities Programme / Building Crafts Apprentices

The Prince's Rebuilding Communities Programme is a nine-month apprentice programme of applied study offering building craftsmen the opportunity to enhance and advance their design knowledge and experience in traditional and sustainable building crafts, through work placements with master craftspeople in New Orleans and similar work placements in the United Kingdom, culminating with the presentation of a certificate in the UK. Apprentices will receive a monthly stipend for the duration of the programme, which his intended to cover the costs of all accommodation, travel and subsistence.

Program Contact

• Maryann Miller, Assistant Director
  504.636.3046
  mmiller@prcno.org