Discover what local news outlets are saying about BK House & Gardens. Explore recent stories, features, and coverage highlighting the house, its history, and its role in the French Quarter community.
Façade restoration brings dramatic change to Beauregard-Keyes House
By Ann Masson, Preservation in Print
A façade is the face that a building presents to the world, and like human faces, façades change over time. Age and weather, fashion and taste, changing materials and new ideas all contribute to the on-going metamorphosis of a familiar face. But if that face changes abruptly, the new appearance can be startling.
Such is the case at the Beauregard-Keyes Historic House, where a complete façade restoration has resulted in a dramatic change of color that transforms the French Quarter building from handsome raised villa to miniature Greek temple.
The Beauregard-Keyes House restoration: the tip of the iceberg phase
By Ellis Anderson, French Quarter Journal
Historic building restorations and icebergs have one thing in common: what’s visible to the human eye is just a tiny percentage of the whole.
So while French Quarter residents and visitors have been able to see the exterior of the Beauregard-Keyes house undergoing extreme changes during the last two weeks, they’re only witnessing the eighth phase in a long-term restoration plan that began in 2013.