An essential reference guide to one of New Orleans's most iconic
Uptown neighborhoods, New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX documents
the remarkable architectural history of the former city of
Carrollton, once the seat of Jefferson Parish and now listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. Following the format of
previous volumes in the series, Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. divides the
study into three sections. He begins in the early eighteenth
century by chronicling the area's development as one of the many
upriver communities just west of New Orleans. Its fields and
plantations afforded early homesteaders tillable farmland and easy
access to the Mississippi River. Later, during the War of 1812,
American troops led by William Carroll encamped there, and the area
was subsequently named for the general. In 1831, developers
purchased the land, subdivided it, and began construction of a road
and a canal linking the area to New Orleans. Local officials
reorganized Carrollton in 1845 - by then a village of about 1,000
residents - as a town in Jefferson Parish, and in 1859 a charter
officially incorporated it as a city. Just fifteen years later, the
City of New Orleans annexed Carrollton - now replete with schools,
public gardens, and brick-paved streets - as the Seventh Municipal
District. The volume's second section consists of a ""Building
Index,"" which gives the original owners, dates of construction,
costs, designers, and builders for many of the structures erected
in Carrollton since its founding. In the ""Selective Architectural
Inventory,"" the book's final section, Cangelosi explores the
history of nearly 420 historic homes and buildings in Carrollton,
and shares thumbnail photographs, detailed sales records, and
information on a variety of architectural styles. New Orleans
Architecture: Volume IX serves as a valuable resource for the
city's Historic District Landmark Commission and the State Historic
Preservation Office, as well as home owners, real estate agents,
guides, historians, and tourists.
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