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Lakefront Airport landmark's sad story gets happy ending

But instead of a wake, a celebration is being planned.

Thanks to a special pool of Federal Emergency Management Agency money earmarked for historic restorations, the terminal's concrete tomb has been stripped away to reveal the original beige aggregate skin and nearly 150 windows that were bricked over five decades ago.

Next on the to-do-list are interior renovations scheduled to begin in August that include the removal of a massive slab that sealed off the second-floor balcony overlooking the grand lobby, which wowed visitors when the building opened its doors in 1934.

Lakefront Airport has one of only a handful of art deco terminals still standing in America.

Advocates of the ongoing $17 million restoration say the opportunity to save it, while staying faithful to the original design, is nothing short of a miracle.

"Preservationists never say die,'' said Carolyn Bennett, head of the Foundation for Historical Louisiana. "We're often there at the eleventh hour. But with this building, it was at the 11:55 hour.''

The project has been a labor of love for Alton Ochsner Davis, who leads the architectural team hired by the state.

"As an architect, there's very few buildings that you see in this good a shape that are this old with this much decorative material,'' said Davis, who returned to his hometown in 2008 to take on the job after a 25-year career in the Northeast.

"They just don't build them like this any more. To be able to work on a prize like this is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's the Super Bowl of architecture in a lot of ways.''

Until the unusual excavation got the green light two years ago, the terminal was often referred to as the "big monolithic block'' on the airport's southernmost boundary.

Today, a refurbished exterior lights up the landscape, its exquisite details once again in plain view. Just below the roof line, more than three dozen ornamental sculpture panels that ring the building have been painstakingly rehabilitated.

When the building was enclosed in the mid-1960s, architects from the Cimini and Meric firm installed a large metal grid on the building's exterior to hold the new exterior in place. In order to anchor it, workers had to shear off the top third of the 9-foot-high cast-relief panels that depict images of aircraft, birds, workers and geometric shapes.

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Solid Steel Construction

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