Research Catalog

Title

New Orleans streets : a walker's guide to neighborhood architecture / R. Stephanie Bruno ; foreword by Walter Isaacson.

Author

Bruno, R. Stephanie

Publication

Gretna : Pelican Pub. Co., 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Isaacson, Walter

Description

174 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 18 x 23 cm.

Summary

"One block at a time, this guidebook offers an expert?s perspective on the architectural diversity and details of New Orleans? unique neighborhoods. A walk through the streets of the city takes one down brick sidewalks and past the ancient Creole cottages in the Vieux Carr?, stately townhouses in the American Sector, Garden District center-halls, and ubiquitous shotguns. The walker passes along avenues lined with homes draped in the ornamentation typical of the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Craftsman styles, and through neighborhoods distinguished by milled brackets, arched-top windows, and clean, horizontal lines. New Orleans is a city of extraordinary variety and style, and this volume enables the casual tourist and lifelong resident alike the opportunity to walk down her blocks and appreciate the extraordinary architectural backdrop. With authority and verve, architectural historian and popular columnist R. Stephanie Bruno guides each reader through the brightly colored and diverse streets of New Orleans as she explores step by step the architectural details of the houses and the individual choices their owners have made to change each one during the course of renovations. In each neighborhood, Bruno highlights variations in architectural details and identifies elements of each house, allowing readers to recognize different architectural styles and even decide what type of house they would most like to inhabit." -- from publisher's website.

Subject

• Architecture > Louisiana > New Orleans > Guidebooks
• New Orleans (La.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Guidebooks
• New Orleans (La.) > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-170) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1. Upriver of Canal Street: Garden District -- Lower Garden District -- Irish Channel -- Central City -- Uptown -- Carrollton -- Old Jefferson -- section 2. Downriver of Canal Street: Vieux Carré -- Tremé -- Faubourg Marigny -- Faubourg St. Roch -- Bywater -- Holy Cross -- Arabi -- section 3. Across the river: Algiers Point -- Old Gretna -- section 4. Along the ridges: Gentilly Ridge -- Esplanade Ridge -- Metairie Ridge -- section 5. Back in town: Mid-city -- Broadmoor -- Ninth ward.

ISBN

9781589808744 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010024076

OCLC

• 630478869
• SCSB-11614017

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library