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D. H. Holmes was a New Orleans department store and later a New Orleans–based chain of department stores. The company was founded in 1842 by Daniel Henry Holmes , after whom it is named. [ 1 ] In 1849 he moved his headquarters to Canal Street , where he developed his first department store.
Lake St. Catherine (French: Lac Sainte-Catherine) is a brackish-water lake that is located in eastern Orleans Parish, within the city limits of New Orleans, between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne in Louisiana. [1] [2] Between Lake St. Catherine and Lake Borgne was the original Town of Lake Catherine. Established between Unknown Pass and ...
Joseph Dorignac, Jr. first opened a grocery store in 1947 on Jackson Avenue in the Lower Garden District before relocating in 1963 to Veterans Highway and Focis Street, near the Orleans parish line. [2] Joseph Dorignac III took over the business after his father passed. It is owned and currently being operated by the family,
Langenstein's was founded in New Orleans in 1922 by Michael Langenstein and his two sons, George Langenstein and Richard Langenstein, with the original store located at 1300 Arabella Street in Uptown New Orleans. [3] In 1954 the store moved to a larger building at 1330 Arabella Street. [4] Beginning in 1994, Langenstein's opened satellite ...
Canal Street in the 1950s. For more than a century, Canal Street was the main shopping district of Greater New Orleans.Local or regional department stores Maison Blanche, D. H. Holmes, Godchaux's, Gus Mayer, Labiche's, Kreeger's, and Krauss anchored numerous well-known specialty retailers, such as Rubenstein Men's Store, Adler's Jewelry, Koslow's, Rapp's, and Werlein's Music, as well as ...
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition. Touchstone. {}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9; Elaine Lacoste (1997). Street Names & Picayune Histories of New Orleans. Ho'olauna Hawaii, Ltd. ISBN 0-9656409-0-6
Exchange Place, also known as Exchange Alley and Exchange Passage, is a pedestrian zone that was created in 1831 originally as a small street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Its original name was Passage de la Bourse, or Exchange Passage. [1]
Arabella Station, is a historic building on Magazine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1996. It is now a Whole Foods for Uptown New Orleans. It has also been known as Arabella Carbarn and as Upper Magazine Station/Carbarn. It was a carbarn for storage and parking of streetcars.