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Looking up Bourbon Street toward the New Orleans Central Business District Tile mosaic explaining that the name of the street was Calle de Borbón when New Orleans was capital of the Spanish Province of Louisiana from 1762 to 1803. Bourbon Street (French: Rue Bourbon, Spanish: Calle de Borbón) is a historic street in the heart of the French ...
Bourbon Street, New Orleans, in 2003, looking towards Canal Street New Orleans contains many distinctive neighborhoods. The Central Business District is located immediately north and west of the Mississippi and was historically called the "American Quarter" or "American Sector". It was developed after the heart of French and Spanish settlement.
The Presbytère is an architecturally important building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It stands facing Jackson Square , adjacent to the St. Louis Cathedral . Built in 1813 as a matching structure for the Cabildo , which flanks the cathedral on the other side, it is one of the nation's best examples of formal colonial Spanish ...
New Orleans, Louisiana: ca. 1722-1732 Blacksmith shop/bar Located on Bourbon Street, where it is currently a bar. Built prior to 1803 Louisiana Purchase made New Orleans part of USA [1] Parlange Plantation House: Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana: 1750 House French colonial antebellum mansion [2] Old Ursuline Convent Museum: New Orleans ...
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans.
Across Decatur Street, the Ward includes a 4 by 6 block section of the old French Quarter, including the old U.S. Customs House and some of the most popular businesses on Royal Street and Bourbon Street, some of the blocks most frequented by out-of-town visitors to the city. [7]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in ...
John Churchill Chase (1st Edition was published in 1949.) (1997).Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition.Touchstone. {{}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9