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The Karnofsky Tailor Shop–House (also known as the Karnofsky Shop) was a historic, two-story building in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, that played a significant role in the early promotion of jazz when the neighborhood was known as "Back of Town". [1] It was destroyed by Hurricane Ida in 2021.
Gallier House is a restored 19th-century historic house museum located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.. It was originally the home of prominent New Orleans architect, James Gallier Jr. Construction began in 1857 and he moved in with his wife and children in 1860.
The Hermann–Grima House is a historic house museum in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The meticulously restored home reflects 19th century New Orleans. It is a Federal-style mansion with courtyard garden, built in 1831. It has the only extant horse stable and 1830s open-hearth kitchen in the French Quarter.
In 1938, General Lewis Kemper Williams [4] (1887-1971), a World War I veteran, Brigadier General in World War II, [5] [6] businessman, and honorary Consul General of Monaco in New Orleans, [7] and his wife, Leila Hardie Moore Williams [8] (1901-1966) bought two properties in the French Quarter, the Spanish Colonial Merieult House on Royal Street and a late 19th-century residence next to the ...
The shotgun house is a narrow domestic residence with doors at each end. This style of architecture developed in New Orleans and is the city's predominant house type. The earliest extant New Orleans shotgun house, at 937 St. Andrews St., was built in 1848.
St. Augustine Church in 1858. When free people of color organized in the 1830s and received permission from Bishop Antoine Blanc to build a church, the Ursuline Sisters donated the property, on the condition that the church be named St. Augustine, after one of their patron saints, Augustine of Hippo. The church was dedicated on October 9, 1842.
Located in 617 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70130 [9] Brennan's: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1795 Residence Former bank, now a restaurant in the French Quarter, located at 417 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 [10] The Cabildo: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1795-1799 Government Located in Jackson Square [11] Pitot House: New Orleans, Louisiana: 1799 ...
Passing by the Faubourg Treme neighborhood, Esplanade goes through the area known alternatively as Faubourg St. John or Esplanade Ridge, near the New Orleans Fairgrounds. The house where Edgar Degas stayed during his time in New Orleans is in this section. [2] [3] Just past Carrollton Avenue is the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art. [1]