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John Churchill Chase (1st Edition was published in 1949.) (1997).Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition.Touchstone. {{}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9
He named the streets after French royal houses and Catholic saints. He paid homage to France's ruling family, the House of Bourbon, with the naming of Bourbon Street. [5] New Orleans was transferred to Spain in 1763 following the Seven Years' War. The Great New Orleans Fire of 1788 destroyed 80 percent of the city's buildings. The Spanish ...
Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans. Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately 5 miles (8.0 km).
Rampart Street (French: rue du Rempart) is a historic avenue located in New Orleans, Louisiana. North Rampart Street tiles, Marigny neighborhood The section of Rampart Street downriver from Canal Street is designated as North Rampart Street , which forms the inland or northern border of the French Quarter (Vieux Carre).
Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana.It runs the length of the city, about 9.5 miles (15.3 km), beginning at the Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues under different names in both directions.
Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street , St. Charles Avenue , and Claiborne Avenue , it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River . The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located in this vicinity during the 18th-century colonial period.