The mission of Southeast Preservation is to provide exceptional architectural conservation and preservation services to individuals and organizations in Louisiana and the southeastern United States. As part of this mission, Southeast Preservation endeavors to use flexibility, creativity, and careful planning to make these services accessible to a wide range of clients who reflect the great variety of our architectural heritage. In conjunction with providing these services, it is a primary goal of Southeast Preservation to spread the understanding of our built heritage through public education.
Behind this mission is the belief that people are deeply affected by their built environment and that our historic structures are imbued with qualities that positively affect us both subconsciously through site and touch, and rationally, by the lessons they teach and the stories they tell. Therefore, Southeast Preservation is dedicated to the history, craft, and science of our built environment. Southeast Preservation is owned and operated by Laura Ewen Blokker. Laura has been working in the field of preservation since 1998. Her professional experience includes employment in both the for-profit and the non-profit sectors in the positions of Architectural Staff, Conservation Assistant, and Preservation Manager. From 2015 to 2022, she was a Preservation faculty member of the Tulane School of Architecture and served as Assistant Director and Interim Director of the Master of Preservation Studies Program. Through each of these positions, she has gained excellent and varied experience in the documentation, assessment and treatment of historic structures, monuments and sites. After more than two decades in the field of historic preservation, Laura Ewen Blokker remains continuously fascinated by how our built environment has been shaped and what we can learn from it about who we are and where we have been as a people. She holds a Master of Preservation Studies from the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana and a B.A. in Creative Writing with an individually designed minor in Architecture from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Laura’s complete resume is available upon request.