New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-12

vided BY large windows, and single door
opens on the right into vestibule, through
which, at all hours of the day, the sunlight
will flood-a great advantage in business
houses. These are already rented
The northwest corner of Baronne and
Gravier streets, once occupied by shanty,
one of the oldest buildings in the city, now
is appropriately flied by a rwostory brick
store, iron and stuceo front, and done up in
solid style. Up Baronne street, toward the
south, passing the solid four-stery struc-
ture also recently erected, instead of the old
family dwelling on the southwest corner;
passing on the right buildings that have
within two years been SO thoroughly reno
waited, their old shape even is lost, one
comes to the foundations that are rising on
the site of peculiar looking brick house
which once stood with bow front. These
foundations and part of the first story,
already solid, show the commercial use for
which this is intended.
Further on up Baronne, leaving this inn
proving northwest corner of Baronne and
Union, one sees renewed evidence of i'm
provement and renovation. The recently
built stores vis-a-cis the National Theatre,
the principal one being occupied by Kern g.
Fellman. are already old; and still further
up one getsinto region where livery stables
are thick and horse traders plenty. But
the well lined street laid with two tracks of
cars has, in the new and solid structures
that have risen within five years, given
more evidence of rapid Improvement than
any other thorougLfare in the city in pro-
portion to the length. At present there
seems to be no room for improvement on
Carondelet street, between old Hevia or
new Lafayette and Canal streets, but the
time Is not by any means tar back when
this distance of the broad commercial mart
was lined with rickety shanties, cotton
yards and cotton presses. In city like
Paris, twenty years would be considered re-
cent; here it is old. A retrospective glance
down this street to Canal, from the corner
of Hevia, and the tall, stately structures
that now wall in the street from where Dav-
idson's Court modestly opens to the one-time
private residence that rises on the corner of
Canal; all these melt away, and in their
stead number of low-browed wooden
shanties give it the appearance Of main
street" in some little village in the interior
of Louisiana. Baronne is in rising con-
dition, and improving at the same rate as
Carondelet street, years since, showing the
goaheaditive disposition of things in this
direction.
The recent Improvements in the vicinity
of the Pile Market, the National Hall, the
handsome stores, are already old, as far as
news is concerned. But. in place of the
small store burned short time ago on Poy-
dras, near Carondelet street, pretty
structure, neat and substantial, with
double front, has already risen, and it is
believed rented. There is no lack of proof,
if one were disposed to find it, that the
city's commercial quarter has widened and
deepened every year since the close of the
war; that new warehouses, covering in some
instances an area of several acres, have gone
up; that the trades are "breaking out in new
place." that Bourbon street in the Second
Baronne street in the First, both present
evidence of the steady increase of our bust,
ness, which is swallowing up small dwell
ings and Insignificant streets in every
direction.