This is Uptown New Orleans in a nutshell. A house doing O.K. next to a house doing great next to a house with a FEMA trailer. Some were prepared while others weren’t. originally posted / written 21 Dec 2008
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New Orleans will give the Painted Ladies of the Northwest a run for their money any day. These look more like houses in Haiti, though. For the record this house is about 1100 square feet and likely going for $350,000.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Accurately described by my bride as a “fallen cake”, this is likely not a candidate for rehab. One must understand that New Orleans looked like this BEFORE Katrina and Rita. The city has been neglected for 35 years. And it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dude has one wall and a roof. HELL YES we’re going to restore instead of tear-down/rebuild! My cynical side guesses that this was done because it allowed for a more obtainable loan as opposed to a new construction loan. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Often, I will have to make a call as to which album I should place a photo. Of course all architecture is art. My focus here is the Fence, which I will lump in with architecture. I should do the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have dozens of “favorite houses” in New Orleans, but this lovely Victorian is up in the top 3 or 5. It’s at Prytania and Marengo. Our house is on Marengo, so I get to drive by it a lot.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bet you didn’t know New Orleans has a World Trade Center. They do and it has a website. The Plimsoll Club , on the 11th floor of the Westin Canal Place Hotel -a private dining facility for WTC members and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may want to right-click (or your appropriate analogue) and “view image”. I don’t want to shrink this. The catwalk is one of my favorite architectural elements that is very common in New Orleans. To me, it’s up there with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a little house on General Pershing St. in which I lived very briefly in 1999. The neighborhood was pretty rough-it’s the only place I lived where stuff was stolen out of my yard. But the big problem was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not every domicile in New Orleans is an ancient, decrepit Victorian. Some clever people are able to build new homes (or even renovate old ones) that are unique and beautiful and don’t insult the lovely venerable homes next to which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…