New Orleans Architecture, Volume 1
Subtitle: The Lower Garden District
Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc
Published: June 1971
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780911116519
Subjects: U.S. Architecture - South; Louisiana; New Orleans (La.); Buildings, structures, etc; Architecture; Buildings; New Orleans
First sentence: When Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville founded New Orleans, he claimed for himself all the land above the site he selected for the new city, extending up to about what has long been known as "Nine Mile Point," then referred to as "the bend above the Chapitoulas."