Southern comfort
Subtitle: the Garden District of New Orleans
By: S. Frederick Starr ; photographs by Robert S. Brantley and Jan White Brantley.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: The Flora Levy humanities series
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Dwellings -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Architecture, Domestic -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Garden District (New Orleans, La.) -- History; New Orleans (La.) -- History; Garden District (New Orleans, La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc; New Orleans (La.) -- Buildings, structures, etc; Garden District (New Orleans, La.) -- Biography; New Orleans (La.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: City and suburb; title: Uptown and the americanization of New Orleans; title: The patrons; title: Antebellum style; title: James Robb, magnate and patron; title: Architects and builders; title: Architects of opulence; title: The culture of comfort; title: Slaves, servants, and retainers; title: A neighborhood war, 1861-1865; title: Men and mansions of the postwar bubble; title: End of an era.