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Historic Preservation
Dr. Robert M. Craig defines the two distinct styles emerging between the 1920s and the 1960s-Art Deco and Modern Classic. A convincing commentary on these unique structures that have come to grace Atlanta. Hardcover.
The Cabildo, one of the monumental buildings flanking St. Louis Cathedral, is an important historic building in the United States, and undoubtedly the most important surviving monument of the period of Spanish domination in Louisiana. This volume traces the history of the Cabildo, from its construction in 1769 and reconstruction in 1795 to its restoration in 1969. Paperback.
Architect, scholar, and civil leader, Samuel Wilson, Jr. was the founding president of the Louisiana Landmarks Society, which advocates historic preservation in New Orleans. A complement to Learning From Samuel Wilson, Jr., this second volume offers new information on historic preservation.
Telling the story of its growth by analyzing its architecture, Historic Buildings of the French Quarter traces the history of the Quarter from its origins to the present. Over one hundred illustrations describe the building types and styles of each historical era and highlight some sixty individual buildings of particular importance. Similar in format to Vogt’s previous books, Historic Buildings of the French Quarter is designed to be an easy-to-use, definitive guide to New Orleans’ most unusual neighborhood. Hardcover.
This photographic narrative showcases more than 250 historic landmarks across New Orleans. Divided by geographic areas of the city, the book covers establishments in the Garden District, the Central Business District, Algiers, and Esplanade Ridge, among others. Historical overviews with corresponding images illustrate such structures as homes, churches, colleges, and commercial buildings.
An important part of Mobile history lies in the foundations of its realty. Each of the city’s 1800s structures has a story to tell and all are included in this collection of more than sixty profiles. Enhancing each building’s character are additions, renovations, and residents’ personalities. The addition of Lewis Carroll’s (the author of Alice in Wonderland) iron gates to a cotton broker’s 1859 mixed-style brick townhouse or the eastern side-parlors constructed on the 1868 Revival-style cottage after it was sold to a schooner captain are only a few of the transformations that give Mobile’s older homes such specific personalities.
From the New Orleans Arena to the Cotton Mill, this pictorial compilation of contemporary architecture highlights eighty of the best projects completed during the past fifteen years. Entries provide the name of the architect or firm and the year that the establishment was created. In addition to offering the history of the building, detailed descriptions cover the unique architectural components. Sections cover office and commercial buildings, schools and university facilities, and dwellings.
Focuses on one of the most comprehensive 19th-century Greek Revival communities. Paperback.
Concentrates on the bustling business district and is designed to serve as a guide for renovation and restoration. Paperback.
In New Orleans, cemeteries are known as “cities of the dead.” New Orleans families, organizations, and benevolent societies build lasting monuments, from the simple to the ornate, to their loved ones. Many of the more lavish monuments are known throughout the city as landmarks. Like all New Orleans architecture, the cemeteries capture the unique character of the Crescent City. Paperback.
The fourth volume of the acclaimed series captures in more than 400 photographs and text the distinctive architecture of the six creole faubourgs, or neighborhoods, of the modern city of New Orleans. Paperback.
The award-winning history of the entire length of one street from the Mississippi River to Bayou St. John is now in paperback format. New Orleans Architecture, Volume V: The Esplanade Ridge, compiled by the Friends of the Cabildo, a leading preservation organization, focuses on the unified type of architecture along the 3.3 mile length of majestic Esplanade Avenue. Paperback.
Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road, one of the historically significant areas of early New Orleans, today ranges from North Rampart to North Broad Street and from Canal to St. Bernard Avenue. This area, first inhabited and largely developed by affluent gens de couler libres, freed persons of color, is the focus of the sixth volume of the award-winning New Orleans Architecture Series. Paperback.
This volume in the authoritative New Orleans Architecture Series focuses on Uptown New Orleans. The city of Jefferson, bounded by Freret Street, Toledano Street, Joseph Street, and the Mississippi River, was an independent town from 1850 to 1870 and still forms the core of the Uptown section. From the ubiquitous shotgun-style cottages to the monumental mansions of St. Charles Avenue, the Jefferson City area is a treasure-trove of nineteenth-century architecture. Paperback.
This section of Uptown New Orleans is named for the various colleges and universities that have existed within its boundaries. The architecture in this area ranges from the Gothic buildings of Tulane and Loyola universities to the grand mansions that also line St. Charles Avenue to the modest shotgun homes and cottages that are scattered around the perimeter of the section. Paperback.
Ornate statues and raised tombs make New Orleans’ cities of the dead a phenomenal sight that draws thousands of tourists every year. The striking images in the New Orleans Cemeteries Postcard Book capture the beauty and magic of these historic New Orleans treasures. Postcards.
Just as residents of New Orleans have long held a reputation as individuals who are vibrant and full of life, so has the city’s architecture been revered for its intimate detail and grandeur. From the popular buildings of the French Quarter to the lesser-known gems of the Bywater, the Crescent City is filled with exquisite historical structures that families have lovingly tended and proudly called home for centuries.