She grew up on a sugar estate in Guyana, where the houses were often painted green and white. Pounder painted the siding green as a reminder of her home country. The exterior siding remains on the interior walls. The vase on the kitchen island is by Milo Andersen with Ashby Studio.Ģ: The dining room is a former porch that was enclosed many years ago. The sculpture on the kitchen island is by artist Woodrow Nash, whose sculptures also are on view at Whitney Plantation. “I remember thinking, ‘I can fix you,’ ” Pounder said.ġ: CCH Pounder kept some of the original kitchen cabinets and painted them a mossy green. Walking through this house, that notion of home resonated. One day, “I was flying back to New Orleans, and someone said, ‘You’re flying home,’ and I said, ‘Yes.’ And I thought, ‘I guess this is home.’ ” “I had been living this bicoastal lifestyle (between Los Angeles and New Orleans), which sounds glamorous until you can’t figure out where your papers are or you can’t find the shoes you want to wear because they’re in the other city,” she added, laughing. “On the spiritual end, because I lost my husband, I thought if I find a house and fix a house, I will fix myself. An experienced renovator who had brought four historic homes back to life - including a 1912 center hall in Los Angeles - she knew how to see beyond the flaws. A dead rat was on the second floor.īut Pounder wasn’t intimidated. A grand staircase in the center hall led up to a space that was essentially an unfinished attic. The bathrooms, kitchen and other areas were outdated. I said, ‘You have a lovely home,’ and she nodded.” “The owner was here, and she was elderly. “When I approached it, this house was big and chunky, and it didn’t have a real paint job - well, just the front had been painted,” Pounder recalled. Some of the works, including a pair of 9-foot-tall Anubis statues, just wouldn’t work with short ceilings. It also had plenty of large rooms with 12-foot ceilings, a must for Pounder, an avid art collector, patron and former gallery owner, whose personal collection numbers from 500 to 600 pieces. Walking through the rooms, she felt an immediate connection to the house, with its spacious center hall, decorative plaster work, original pocket doors, double parlors and raised basement. Pounder had been house hunting for more than a year when she pulled up in front of the Faubourg St. Averaging nearly 11 million viewers each week, NCIS: New Orleans is now in its sixth season. Loretta Wade on the popular CBS television show. For several years, she had been jockeying between her home in Los Angeles and a rented condo in New Orleans, where she plays coroner Dr. Pounder, the Emmy-nominated star of NCIS: New Orleans, was widowed in 2016 when her husband of 26 years, anthropologist Boubacar Koné, passed away. So, too, was its new owner, the actress CCH Pounder. Once a proud, grand structure, the home, riddled with termite damage and a bad roof, hadn’t been renovated in decades. The stately Arts and Crafts-style house, built circa 1925 in the Faubourg St. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered to your door monthly? Become a member of the PRC for a subscription! National Archives or DVIDS.This story appeared in the November issue of the PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. This website is developed as a part of the world's largest public domain archive,, and not developed or endorsed by the U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain. National Archives and DVIDS is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. All of these materials are preserved because they are important to the workings of Government, have long-term research worth, or provide information of value to citizens.ĭisclaimer: A work of the U.S. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service provides a connection between world media and the American military personnel serving at home and abroad. There are approximately 10 billion pages of textual records 12 million maps, charts, and architectural and engineering drawings 25 million still photographs and graphics 24 million aerial photographs 300,000 reels of motion picture film 400,000 video and sound recordings and 133 terabytes of electronic data. NARA keeps those Federal records that are judged to have continuing value-about 2 to 5 percent of those generated in any given year. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt. National Archives and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. The objects in this collection are from The U.S.
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