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Creole townhouses were built after the Great New Orleans Fire (1788), until the mid-19th century. The prior wooden buildings were replaced with structures with courtyards, thick walls, arcades, and cast-iron balconies. The façade of the building sits on the property line, with an asymmetrical arrangement of arched openings.
A. Hays Town (June 17, 1903 – January 6, 2005) was an American architect whose career spanned over sixty-five years. While Town designed commercial and governmental buildings in the style of modern architecture for the first forty years of his career, he became best known for his residential architecture, which was heavily influenced by the Spanish, French, and Creole history of Louisiana.
In the U.S. south, a creole cottage is a type of vernacular architecture indigenous to the Gulf Coast of the United States.The style was a dominant house type along the central Gulf Coast from about 1790 to 1840 in the former settlements of French Louisiana in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Personal touches abound, like her favorite photo displayed on a table right inside the front door. It’s of her dad, from New Year’s Eve, 1980, taken at the Embassy Suites in Kansas City. He ...
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The Carter Sparks-designed mid-century modern home in Fair Oaks, California, has floor-to-ceiling windows looking in from the backyard. The atrium leads to the front door of the California modern ...
The state of Louisiana is home to 54 of these landmarks, spanning a range of history from early to modern times. The most recently designated is the St. Charles Streetcar Line, designated during August 2014. Three listings have had their designations withdrawn.
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