Property Guide Municipal Collections

Municipal Records for Property Research

Use SWB house connection records to confirm date of construction if your property was built between 1907-1960.

Board of Zoning Adjustments, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, and the City Planning Commission.

Orleans Parish Tax Assessment records and tax registers.

Index to building plans held in the City Archives.

Records of messages recieved and sent, monthly fire reports, and alarm telegraph corps.

Correspondence, record books, plans, and maps from the City Surveyor and City Engineer's Office.

Minutes from the VCC and the VCC Architecture Committee, along with a link to the Vieux Carre Survey.

Slides and Surveys of designated historic districts.

Civil Court records including successions and sheriff's sales of property