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New Orleans - French Quarter: 1200 Decatur Street

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:15:37 -0800

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1200 Decatur Street, a 3-story building, features a large 1,732 square foot balcony that wraps around Governor Nicholls and French Market Place.

Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)

New Orleans - CBD: Bank's Arcade

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:54:12 -0700

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These buildings on Magazine Street at the corner of Natchez Street were once part of the notable block-long structure, Bank's Arcade, erected in 1833 by Thomas Banks and designed by architect Charles F. Zimpel. A glass-roofed arcade extended from Natchez to Gravier Streets, the upper stories of this corner building contained John Hewlett's restaurant. On October 13, 1835, a committee of New Orleans Friends of Texas met in Banks' Arcade to plan operations to aid the Texas Revolution. These buildings restored in 1941 by J. Aron & Co., Inc., Emilio Levy, architect, and again in 1999 by St. James Hotel, L.L.C. and Trapolin Architects.

New Orleans - CBD: Bank's Arcade

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:54:06 -0700

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New Orleans - CBD: United States Custom House

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:09:14 -0700

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The U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana, also known as the Old Post Office and Custom House, was built starting in 1848 and constructed over a period of 33 years to house multiple federal offices, notably the main post office and federal courts, and store goods. The building was designed by Alexander Thompson Wood, who was replaced in 1850 and succeeded by eight different architects, each of whom modified the original design.

The partially completed building was first occupied in 1856 when the U.S. Customs Service moved into the first floor. The post office followed in November 1860, and the building served as the city's main post office through the remainder of the 19th century. Although construction was suspended during the Civil War, the building was occupied briefly by Confederate forces and then by the Union Army after New Orleans was occupied in 1862. It was also used to house captured Confederate soldiers, reportedly up to 2,000 men at one time. Construction resumed in 1871, with the upper floor and roof plan and sections substantially revised under the direction of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Alfred B. Mullett.

The immense four-stor building, sheathed in gray granite, occupies the full trapezoidal downtown city block bounded by Canal, North Peters, Iberville, and Decatur Streets.Each of the four facades is similar in design. In the center of each facade is a projecting pavilion consisting of four round, fluted, modified Egyptian, engaged columns. The first floor of the structure is faced with rusticated granite stonework. The cast-iron entablature contains widely spaced triglyphs in the frieze and dentils in the cornice, and supports a triangular pediment above the central portico on each facade. Near both ends of each facade is a slightly projecting bay composed of four modified Egyptian pilasters supporting the entablature. On the first story of the exterior of the U.S. Custom House are a series of vacant niches, originally intended these to hold heroic statues of famous Americans.

The floor plan is arranged around the Greek Revival Marble Hall, ornamented with Corinthian columns that depict the heads of the mythological god Mercury, guardian of boundaries, commerce, and roads, and the goddess Luna, whose crescent moon-shaped brow symbolizes the city's location at the crescent bend of the Mississippi River. The columns support a full classical entablature with an ornamented cornice and floral cresting. A deep cove above the cornice supports a sophisticated geometrically composed skylight. Over the entrance at the North Peters Street end of the hall are sculptures depicting founder of New Orleans, Sier de Bienville; General Andrew Jackson; and the pelican, the traditional symbol of Louisiana.

National Register #74000938 (1974)

New Orleans - French Quarter: 1300 Chartres Street

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:37:05 -0800

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New Orleans - French Quarter: 1234 Chartres Street

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:37:00 -0800

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Le Richelieu Hotel, at 1234 Chartres Street

New Orleans - French Quarter: 1023 Chartres Street

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:24:00 -0800

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New Orleans - French Quarter: Felton Arms

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:24:07 -0800

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Felton Arms, 1127-1129 Chartres Street

New Orleans - French Quarter: 900 Royal Street

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:15:44 -0800

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Vieux Carré Historic District National Register #66000377 (1966)

New Orleans - CBD

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:35:37 -0800

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New Orleans - CBD: Half Shell Restaurant & Lenny's Piccadilly Lounge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:35:26 -0800

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Lenny's Piccadilly Lounge, at 113 University Place, is a cozy nightspot with a dark wood-and-brick interior.

The adjacent Half Shell Restaurant ofers a full home-style menu.

New Orleans - CBD: St. Charles Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:07:50 -0700

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New Orleans - CBD: Restaurant August

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:34:30 -0700

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Restaurant August, at 301 Tchoupitoulas Street, was opened in a four-story French Creole building dating from the 1800's in 2001 by native John Besh, who was named "Best New Chef" by Food & Wine in 1998.

New Orleans - CBD: Restaurant August

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:34:24 -0700

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New Orleans - CBD: Restaurant August

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:34:18 -0700

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New Orleans - CBD: 610 Tchoupitoulas

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:34:11 -0700

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610 Tchoupitoulas, the "First Renaissance Building", was built in 1843 and occupied in the 1930's by Southern Coffee Mills Ltd, coffee producers for Café du Monde.

New Orleans - CBD: Confederate Memorial Hall - Mobile Bay canon

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:53:23 -0700

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This 8 inch columbaid cast of Alabama iron by the Confederates at Selma, Alabama was mounted in Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay.

Confederate Memorial Hall, today known as the Civil War Museum, at 929 Camp Street, opened to the public on January 8, 1891. The oldest museum in Louisiana, it houses the second largest collection of Confederate Civil War items in the world, behind the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. It contains over 5,000 historical artifacts including the personal effects and uniforms of Confederate generals Braxton Bragg, P.G.T. Beauregard, and Franklin Gardner as well as 125 historical battle flags from the Civil War.

Confederate Memorial Hall was established in 1891 by New Orleans philanthropist Frank T. Howard to house the historical collections of the Louisiana Historical Association. The museum quickly accumulated a vast collection of Civil War items, mostly in the form of personal donations by veterans. In 1893 the museum hosted a wake for the exhumed body of Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended by over 60,000 mourners before it was transported to Davis' permanent tomb in Richmond. A reunion held at the building attracted 30,000 Civil War veterans - one of the largest of such gatherings ever held.

New Orleans - CBD: Harrah's Casino

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:53:10 -0700

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Harrah's New Orleans, located near the foot of Canal Street a block away from the Mississippi River, is a 115,000 ft² casino that with approximately 2,100 slot machines, over 90 table games and a poker room. Opened on October 30, 1999, it is the only land based private casino in the state by Louisiana law. The casino shut down in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 but reopened in the midst of Mardi Gras on February 17, 2006.

The Last Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is the largest gaming company in the world, with yearly revenues around $7.11 billion. Founded by William F. Harrah in Reno in 1937, it is currently owned by Hamlet Holdings.

New Orleans - CBD: James Matthew Davis Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:09:32 -0700

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New Orleans - CBD: Spanish American War Monument

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:09:07 -0700

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The Spanish American War Monument, also known as the Hiker or the Trooper, was originally dedicated on May 30, 1939 at Canal and Claiborne but has since been moved to its current location at Loyola and Poydras Streets. The 8-foot tall bronze sculpture, which depicts a male military figure atop a 14-foot granite base with an emlem relief depicting a kneeling woman before a soldier and sailor was funded by the Louisiana Spanish American War Monument Commission, whose members included Judge Rufus E. Foster, James W. Godbery, and Fred W. Matthews. The monument was erected by Albert Weiblen Marble Granite Works. The artist is unknown, but it may be by or a copy after Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's "The Hiker."