In New Orleans, architecture is about survival and not just beauty. Would your house hold up in our heat?Keeping cool in New Orleans, where the summer heat can become intense, is about survival. The city’s architecture plays a crucial part in this.
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For this installment of Field Trip Fridays, I went back to the Historic New Orleans Collection to view a very special exhibit. Back in May […]
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Single and Double Shotgun (1830 – 1940) Shotguns are called shotguns because they were developed so that all the doors line up – “you can […]
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Favorite Building Friday! This week to celebrate our annual French Quarter Fest, we headed back down to New Orleans’ most famous neighborhood to pick out […]
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Happy Birthday Benjamin Latrobe! On this day in 1764, Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was born, near Leeds, England. He was educated as an architect and […]
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For Women’s History Month, I’d like to share with you a paper I wrote for a Colonial Louisiana Class in 2013, about the mark that […]
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Today we continue with the second part of post about free people of color and their contributions to architecture in New Orleans. If you missed […]
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For Black History Month I thought I would learn a little more about contributions made by free people of color in the architecture of New […]
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Favorite Building Friday! For this week’s Favorite Building Friday, I want to share the not only one of my favorite buildings, but it is also […]
Learn MoreThis weekend the Williams Research Center held its 21st annual symposium at the Hotel Monteleone. The title and focus of the seminar was: Perspectives on […]
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