In the decades of his professional career, Robert Cangelosi Jr., a celebrated architect, historian, author, and Tulane University professor of historic preservation, has never known a day removed from the grasp of the needy and demanding mistress that is the Beauregard-Keyes House.

“It is nonstop,” Cangelosi, president of Koch & Wilson Architects, said of the 1826 Greek Revival center hall located in the French Quarter neighborhood where he grew up in the 1950s.

“It is a balancing act between addressing restoration, fixing past mistakes, and meeting the requirements of VCPORA (Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents, and Associates), and trying to move on capital improvements — such as the installation of an elevator at the rear.

"The battle is to keep it from falling into rack and ruin.

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