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The Garden District of New Orleans (Hardcover, New)
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The Garden District of New Orleans (Hardcover, New)
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The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and
visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately
white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried
Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West
Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely
images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures.
Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and
architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and
chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the
neighborhood.The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter,
evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American
architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans.
Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a
startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African
American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians,
Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of
America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods.
Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as
Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin
Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading
Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and
Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe ""King"" Oliver and Nate ""Kid"" Ory;
champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King,
George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare;
architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton
magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A.
Morris.In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the
unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues,
politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation
shaped the incomparable Garden District.
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