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Poydras Street in 1962 before it was widened and before De Soto (Le Pavillon) Hotel renovation. The street is named for Julien de Lallande Poydras, who helped Louisiana achieve statehood, [1] served as the first President of the Louisiana State Senate, [citation needed] and Delegate from the Territory of Orleans to the United States House of Representatives, Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809 ...
The Poydras Market also known as the Poydras Street Market, was an early market area in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a public open-air market. Poydras Market in 1905; painting by William Woodward. Poydras Market was built in 1837 through a land relinquished by Carrollton Railroad Company in order to sell goods transported by the rail system.
The Poydras Center is a 28-story, 300 feet (91 m)-tall skyscraper located at 650 Poydras Street at the intersection with St. Charles Avenue in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Pan-American Life Building, located at 601 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 28-story, 322 feet (98 m)-tall high-rise building. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , it was built in 1980 as the headquarters for the Pan-American Life Insurance Co .
Poydras was first settled in the 18th century by Isleños when Louisiana was a Spanish colony.Presumably, the town is named for Julien Poydras.. Albert Estopinal, Jr., a St. Bernard Parish district attorney, judge, and sheriff, was born in Poydras in 1869 to later U.S. Representative, Albert Estopinal, Sr. [2]
930 Poydras is a 21-story, 270.31-foot (82.4 m) residential skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana. Located on Poydras Street , the main thoroughfare in the city's Central Business District (CBD), it is the tallest building completed in the city in the 2010s and the first residential skyscraper completed in the city following Hurricane Katrina .
During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...
Julien de Lallande (Lalande) Poydras (April 3, 1740 – June 23, 1824) was a French American merchant, planter, financier, poet, educator and political leader who served as Delegate from the Territory of Orleans to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811.