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Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana.It runs the length of the city, about 9.5 miles (15.3 km), beginning at the Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues under different names in both directions.
Designed by William Nowland Van Powell and Henry Ehrensing [2] as the Claiborne Towers apartment building, construction started in April 1950 at a cost of $10 million. [3] The building was the largest apartment complex in the city upon opening in 1951, [4] containing 1,036 air-conditioned apartments, [3] and was built on land leased from Tulane University [3] by the developer Paul Kapelow.
A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: MLK Boulevard, South Claiborne Avenue and the Pontchartrain Expressway to the north, Magazine, Thalia, Prytania and Felicity Streets and St. Charles Avenue to the south and Toledano Street, Louisiana Avenue and Washington ...
Camden Academy (1895–1970) was a private school for African Americans in Camden, Alabama, the county seat of Wilcox County, Alabama.It served elementary school students, secondary school students, and boarders.
The Claiborne Avenue Bridge, officially known as the Judge William Seeber Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana over the Industrial Canal.It was built by the Louisiana Department of Highways (later renamed the Department of Transportation and Development) and opened to vehicular traffic in 1957.
The small section from Canal Street to Lee Circle was the first part restored. The section continuing up to Napoleon Avenue was re-opened for service on November 11, 2007, and on December 23, 2007, was extended up to Carrollton Avenue, near the line's original terminus in 1833.
From Claiborne to Carrollton Avenue it has one traffic lane in each direction, a dedicated bicycle lane, and a smaller neutral ground. The segment from the River to Rampart Street separates the French Quarter from the Faubourg Marigny. Near the river on the French Quarter side is the old New Orleans Mint building. [1]
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