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Sep 10, 2018 · The two Queen Anne-style mansions located near the corner of St. Charles and Nashville avenues were both built in 1889 and designed by architect Louis Lambert. Next-door neighbors, the houses started out looking almost like twins.
Oct 24, 2019 · From the several homes passed down for generations that fill the Garden District, to house museums located in the French Quarter, there is no shortage of visual history in New Orleans.
Louis Armstrong was born in a poor section of New Orleans known as “the Battlefield” on August 4, 1901. By the time of his death in 1971, the man known around the world as Satchmo was widely recognized as a founding father of jazz—a uniquely American art form.
Part of the Lower Pontalba Building on Jackson Square, this rowhouse represents mid-nineteenth-century life in New Orleans. Visitors encounter the stories of the Baroness de Pontalba—the remarkable woman who oversaw construction of the building—and the people who lived here in the 1850s, including enslaved workers and Irish immigrant servants.
Jan 21, 2018 · A New Orleans newspaper reporter paid a rare visit to the so-called Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans a century ago this month, providing an outsider's take on what had.
In the plaza of the New Orleans Traffic Court and police headquarters, a historical marker designates the site of the modest wooden house where Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 (not, as he was known to claim, on July 4, 1900). In 1964, to make way for the court and police complex, the […]
Sep 17, 2019 · In Uptown New Orleans, Lillian Hellman spent her early years at 1718 Prytania St. and at 1829 Valence and Grace King’s home at 1749 Coliseum St. was the site of a literary salon where writers such as Mark Twain visited.
