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Keeping Cool in New Orleans: How Architecture Helps Battle The Summer Heat

07/12/2023 | Local History |

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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Gaston Pontalba

Field Trip Friday! The Seignouret-Brulatour Building

01/30/2020 | Field Trip Fridays!, Fun stuff |

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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