Building Antebellum New Orleans

Author : Tara A. Dudley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781477323038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Antebellum New Orleans written by Tara A. Dudley and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 PROSE Award Winner in Architecture and Urban Planning The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) 2022 Summerlee Best Book Prize The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city?s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres?free people of color?in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souli?s, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.

Author : Tara Dudley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323023
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Antebellum New Orleans written by Tara Dudley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have been focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.

Author : Eberhard L. Faber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400873525
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Land of Dreams written by Eberhard L. Faber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, Building the Land of Dreams is the narrative biography of a fascinating city at the most crucial turning point in its history. Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. The change in authority, from imperial Spain to Jeffersonian America, transformed everything. As the city’s diverse people struggled over the terms of the transition, they built the foundations of a dynamic, contentious hybrid metropolis. Faber describes the vital individuals who played a role in New Orleans history: from the wealthy creole planters who dreaded the influx of revolutionary ideas, to the American arrivistes who combined idealistic visions of a new republican society with selfish dreams of quick plantation fortunes, to Thomas Jefferson himself, whose powerful democratic vision for Louisiana eventually conflicted with his equally strong sense of realpolitik and desire to strengthen the American union. Revealing how New Orleans was formed by America’s greatest impulses and ambitions, Building the Land of Dreams is an inspired exploration of one of the world’s most iconic cities.

Author : Jan Arrigo, Laura McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616731229
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans written by Jan Arrigo, Laura McElroy and published by . This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina ravaged much of New Orleans in 2005, but thankfully the city’s most treasured historic homes survived. Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans is a poignant tribute of these storied mansions, whose architectural beauty brings a unique flair to the Big Easy’s most famous neighborhoods. From the French Quarter and Garden District to Uptown, Marigny, and Bayou St. John, many of New Orleans’ grandest old homes and nearby plantations are featured in this book, showcasing the massive brick columns, intricate cast-iron balconies, wide verandas, sumptuous parlors, and humble servants quarters that give this area its charm. Open these pages and you’ll travel to Destrehan, the oldest plantation house in the Mississippi Valley, originally built of hand-hewn bald cypress timber using briquette entre’pateaux, mud (clay, river sand, and Spanish moss) between post; the homes artist Edgar Degas and author William Faulkner lived in during their New Orleans’ stays; and the 1850 House located in the Lower Pontalba building on Jackson Square. Learn about the building’s namesake, a baroness with a tumultuous family life who managed to escape murder and was also responsible for building the American embassy in Paris. With lavish photographs of exteriors and rooms of special interest, gardens and curiosities, and detailed information about New Orleans’ diverse architecture and history, this book is both a perfect guide for visitors and natives alike and an enchanting visual tour of one of the greatest cities in the United States.

Author : Friends of the Cabildo
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Architecture written by Friends of the Cabildo and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans is one of America's richest architectural possessions ... these architecture books lay a solid foundation in the field, are a gift to general historians, and, as the authors hoped, have contributed immeasurably to the maintenance of extant architectural treasures.Simple cottages, urban mansions, and amalgamations of Creole and Anglo-American-type homes blend together to form one of the few distinctively antebellum New Orleans neighborhoods remaining.

Author : William Darrell Overdyke
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Plantation Homes, Colonial and Antebellum written by William Darrell Overdyke and published by Crown. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vogt, Lloyd
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455614530
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Young Person's Guide to New Orleans Houses written by Vogt, Lloyd and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the varying styles of houses found in New Orleans and how they evolved.

Author : Thomas Kelah Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of the South written by Thomas Kelah Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lloyd Vogt
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455624669
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Houses written by Lloyd Vogt and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecturally unique, New Orleans has been called the greatest outdoor museum in the world. Glimpses of history can be found in the balconies, arches, and stained-glass windows of its homes, from simple Creole cottages to suburban ranch houses. Written as a house-watchers guide, New Orleans Houses enables the layperson to estimate the date of a houses construction, within ten to fifteen years, and to place it in a historical time frame by studying its architectural details. The author discusses each building style in the context of the major events, personages, and issues of the period during which the buildings were erected. Over 100 illustrations, including drawings of existing New Orleans homes as well as composite sketches, highlight the characteristics commonly associated with certain types of homes, making New Orleans Houses as much an art book as it is a reference guide. A glossary clarifies the sometimes-confusing terminology used in discussing architecture. It also defines words peculiar to New Orleans architecture such as Creole and faubourg.

Author : Juliane Braun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813942339
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creole Drama written by Juliane Braun and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city's early years, French-speaking residents used the theatre to assert their political, economic, and cultural sovereignty in the face of growing Anglo-American dominance. Beyond local stages, the francophone struggle for cultural survival connected people and places in the early United States, across the American hemisphere, and in the Atlantic world. Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. Juliane Braun draws on the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of documents from both sides of the Atlantic, to explore the ways in which theatre and drama shaped debates about ethnic identity and transnational belonging in the city. Francophone identity united citizens of different social and racial backgrounds, and debates about political representation, slavery, and territorial expansion often played out on stage. Recognizing theatres as sites of cultural exchange that could cross oceans and borders, Creole Drama offers not only a detailed history of francophone theatre in New Orleans but also an account of the surprising ways in which multilingualism and early transnational networks helped create the American nation.