New Orleans and Its Environs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Orleans and Its Environs write by I. W. Ricciuti. This book was released on 1938. New Orleans and Its Environs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
New Orleans and Its Environs
New Orleans and Its Environs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Orleans and Its Environs write by Italo William Ricciuti. This book was released on 1938. New Orleans and Its Environs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Building Antebellum New Orleans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Antebellum New Orleans write by Tara Dudley. This book was released on 2021-08-10. Building Antebellum New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have been focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.
Historic Resource Study, Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Historic Resource Study, Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Resource Study, Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve write by Jerome A. Greene. This book was released on 1985. Historic Resource Study, Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Majesty of the French Quarter
The Majesty of the French Quarter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Majesty of the French Quarter write by Kerri McCaffety. This book was released on 1999-12-31. The Majesty of the French Quarter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "�highly recommended for architecture, photography, and history collections everywhere." --Library Journal "McCaffety knows how to capture the fleeting beauty of a moment." --Times Picayune For many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carr�? Truman Capote wrote, "Of all secret cities, New Orleans . . . is the most secretive. . . . [Its] architecture deliberately concocted to camouflage, to mask, as at a Mardi Gras Ball, the lives of those born to live among these protective edifices." Through striking photographs and polished prose, The Majesty of the French Quarter opens the locked door and invites readers to discover a multitude of hidden marvels. Among the discovered gems is the 1828 Bourbon Street mansion of Lindy Boggs, U. S. ambassador to the Vatican and former congresswoman. Pictured are many such homes' secret, overgrown gardens where, noted Capote, "mimosa and camellias contrast color, and lazing lizards, flicking their forked tongues, race along palm fronds." Also featured are rare glimpses of the antique-filled and artfully decorated interiors of some of the Quarter's most majestic homes, including that of New Orleans novelist Julie Smith. While this series has examined New Orleans as a whole and the city's Garden District in particular, the French Quarter has quietly kept her secrets to herself-until now.
