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The Junkyard Cafe is a mixed-use development in Lacombe, Louisiana. The JYC, as it is lovingly called, will be part cafe, part consignment shop, and part community center.

MKS is handling permitting coordination and site planning, consultant coordination with civil engineering and landscape architecture, and will be supporting the project as an architect during construction.

Project Partners:

Marais Consultants // Civil & Stormwater Management

Dana Brown & Associates // Landscape Architecture

A historic house travels to an unknown land and is now nestled within a 60-acre farm and creative campus in the Cajun prairie.

MKS will be the architect of record for this project which bends the future of historic preservation into off-grid compatibility.

This project is currently in progress. Check back for updates.

Tante Huppe was constructed in 1823 along the Cane River in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The property was designed for use as a "town house" and had a prior life most recently as a bed and breakfast.

This gorgeous relic of early American architecture is now preparing to undergo interior renovations with the help of historic tax credits. MKS is providing design, historical interpretation, curatorial support for the future house museum, and preparing the materials for historic tax credit applications.

This iconic building was once home to the infamous Chris Steaks, which then became the original location of Ruth's Chris Steak House in New Orleans in the 1920s. The building was constructed circa 1890 and is located within the Esplanade Ridge Historic District.

MKS is handling historic tax credit applications for the interior renovations to the building.

MKS was contracted by the GSA to complete testing for varying types of graffiti removal treatments at the United States Custom House in New Orleans. The project team included Cypress Building Conservation, who performed a Rotec-Vortex crushed glass treatment in addition to chemical methods. Work is currently in progress.

MKS prepared the materials and documentation necessary to nominate historic Lincoln Beach to the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was unanimously approved at the local level and approved at the state level. The nomination is currently in the hands of the National Park Service reviewer.

MKS was contacted to complete existing conditions drawings of the remaining church pinnacle and preliminary shop drawings to reconstruct new pinnacles belonging to the Historic St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church located at 222 North Roman Street in New Orleans, LA.

The St. James A.M.E. Church was originally constructed in 1848 by members of the congregation under the direction of Reverend Charles Doughty and was remodeled in 1903 by architects Diboll and Owen. The Church building is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a prominent example of the Victorian Gothic Revival Style, with significant features including the following:

1. Pointed Arch Fenestration

2. Stained Glass Windows

3. Blind Arcading

4. The Corner Pinnacles

5. The Central Open Spire

The St. James A.M.E. Church is significant under Criteria C at the state level and is considered the most stylistically ornate A.M.E. Church in Louisiana.

Lincoln Beach is a historic African American waterfront park in New Orleans East that was once a segregated beach and amusement park. MKS is the historic preservation consultant to Sasaki Associates for the Lincoln Beach Redevelopment Master Plan on behalf of the City of New Orleans.

Our role is to support planning efforts with the library of research our office has collected since 2000, including photographs, newspaper articles, ephemera, and documentation from various public and private collections.

Mount Zion Lutheran Church in New Orleans was established in 1878 and is considered the oldest Black Lutheran church congregation in the United States. Though the church's home has evolved in response to manmade and natural interventions, the church still retains its original bell, and the current MZLC building is a well-preserved example of late midcentury modern architecture by local architect JC Frantz.

MKS is proud to partner with Mount Zion Lutheran Church to provide historic preservation and architectural services to plan for the ongoing care of this significant sacred place.

Mixed media sculpture. Please contact the studio for more information.