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The wide swath of homes that are considered part of Uptown in New Orleans holds some of the most opulent and unique architecture in the city, and the homes in the Garden District are quintessential examples of both. However, within this 19-block stretch—running St. Charles Avenue to Magazine Street and Jackson Avenue to Toledano Street—more ...
Discover a portal into New Orleans history by touring the homes, drawing rooms, gardens and courtyards of some of the nation’s oldest original French, Spanish and American architecture. Whether you’re visiting a Creole cottage in the Treme or a grand plantation home, these homes are living memories of lives lived and lessons left behind ...
Sep 8, 2015 · On the FX series “ American Horror Story: Coven, ” this grand old house is known as “Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies” (aka witches ). In real life, it’s a three-story, 20,000-square-foot landmark in New Orleans from the 1850s called Buckner Mansion.
May 26, 2017 · WPA photo from the 1930s. The entry in the LOUIS database is amusing for the Lafitte reference: B&W photo, date unknown. An Antebellum mansion in the New Orleans, Louisiana Garden District. Also known as the “cornstalk fence” house.
Stritch was born on February 2, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest daughter of Mildred (née Jobe), a homemaker, and George Joseph Stritch, an executive with B.F. Goodrich. She had two older sisters, Georgene and Sally. [4]
Jul 17, 2014 · When health problems forced Elaine Stritch to leave New York in 2013 and head for her home state of Michigan, James Barron, writing in The New York Times, explained in one sentence what...
The building’s finest feature, and one unusual for New Orleans, is the light gray granite pedimented Doric portico; its severity makes a splendid foil for the lacy cast-iron decoration. The house is set back slightly from the property line and enclosed by a cast-iron fence and granite gateposts.
