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NOLA reference material, historical background of buildings? FQ mainly.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:13 am
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:13 am
The thread about the idiots wanting to take down the Jackson Square statue got me off on a side tangent. I've been on this before. Just wondering if there is a reference to the history of what each significant building in the FQ was, who owned it, years, timetable.
Not just Lafittes or shite like that. Or Brenners. I mean what was Cats Meow? Or Razoos? Each has courtyards and carriage ways. What's the lineage, I guess, of each? I know that Pat O's was a theater or outdoor theater?
I guess looking at a reference book or website that tells the story/history of each building. There is a thread on the food board asking for recs on breakfast places. It got me thinking of the Coffee Pot. Cool old spot and you can tell when you walk in that it was a home at one point a century ago. Outdoor patio that was a courtyard. Indoor bar that used to not be there and you are eating in an old primitive dining room. Or when you are at Razoos and drinking beer in the courtyard. You walk up to a beer tub girl, she has to go to the back room or the bar back comes out of the room. It looks like it was slave quarters or later servants quarters 200-100 years ago.
I know New Orleans burned down many (3 I think) times. But shite like that fascinates me. Especially with a couple pops in me. I start looking around. "What the hell was this?" Who lived here?" Any old city does this, but New Orleans is the best and has to be the most well documented example. That I have been to.
Anybody have any good reference material?
Not just Lafittes or shite like that. Or Brenners. I mean what was Cats Meow? Or Razoos? Each has courtyards and carriage ways. What's the lineage, I guess, of each? I know that Pat O's was a theater or outdoor theater?
I guess looking at a reference book or website that tells the story/history of each building. There is a thread on the food board asking for recs on breakfast places. It got me thinking of the Coffee Pot. Cool old spot and you can tell when you walk in that it was a home at one point a century ago. Outdoor patio that was a courtyard. Indoor bar that used to not be there and you are eating in an old primitive dining room. Or when you are at Razoos and drinking beer in the courtyard. You walk up to a beer tub girl, she has to go to the back room or the bar back comes out of the room. It looks like it was slave quarters or later servants quarters 200-100 years ago.
I know New Orleans burned down many (3 I think) times. But shite like that fascinates me. Especially with a couple pops in me. I start looking around. "What the hell was this?" Who lived here?" Any old city does this, but New Orleans is the best and has to be the most well documented example. That I have been to.
Anybody have any good reference material?
This post was edited on 10/1/16 at 11:21 am
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Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:15 am to LSU alum wannabe
They were all whore houses and slave quarters at one time or another.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:19 am to LSU alum wannabe
The New Orleans Architecture series by Pelican Publishing has some great volumes, but I don't know if they have one on the quarter specifically.
Pelican Publishing.
Pelican Publishing.
This post was edited on 10/1/16 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:19 am to LSU alum wannabe
Muriel's restaurant was a slave exchange. You can walk into the hallway where all the slaves were packed into before being auctioned off.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:24 am to LSU alum wannabe
The fires were in the late 18th century, so most of it was built (St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo) when the Spanish were in charge. But within ten years Jefferson would purchase it.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:24 am to tgrbaitn08
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They were all whore houses and slave quarters at one time or another.
Any homes that old and that wealthy (at the time) had slaves or servants.
Probably 50/50 that it was a whorehouse. I laughed at a documentary on the "vice district" that was where the housing project is now. North of Rampart by THE cemetery.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:26 am to TigerintheNO
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The fires were in the late 18th century, so most of it was built (St. Louis Cathedral, Cabildo) when the Spanish were in charge. But within ten years Jefferson would purchase it.
What else survived other than Lafittes?
I know it's the "oldest bar in the US" but is it the oldest surviving structure in the FQ?
Posted on 10/1/16 at 11:31 am to LSU alum wannabe
You will also find that many of the buildings were also medical clinics for tuberculous, syphlis etc. Jailhouses, bars and gambling houses.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 1:11 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Try the Historic New Orleans Collection based on Royal St. Their website says they have digital records on the history of all the FQ buildings.
HNOC
HNOC
Posted on 10/1/16 at 1:29 pm to LSUBFA83
Also, I think The Cabildo has an online archive with a bunch of information. I know the licensed tour guides in New Orleans work from there generally
Posted on 10/1/16 at 1:33 pm to tgrbaitn08
The monuments to slave-owning whores must be torn down.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 1:36 pm to TFS4E
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Cabildo
Love that place, go every year or so as well as WWII and the Confederate Museum on Camp. Good shite.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 2:24 pm to LSU alum wannabe
It was called Storyville. Louis Armstrong's roots.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 2:49 pm to mauser
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was called Storyville. Louis Armstrong's roots.
Yep.
Seen it a million times around the FQ. But not until the documentary I saw did I know it was no longer a building or area. Bulldozed to make horrendous projects. Talk about, pick your poison, projects and crackheads or whorehouses and whores?
Posted on 10/1/16 at 3:22 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Ever seen "Pretty Baby" with Susan Sarandon? I think it was set in the whorehouse district as it was being closed down. Also has naked boobies.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 3:30 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Google Sanborn maps. I collect early 1900s baseball cards that were issued by NOLA companies. I used the maps to figure out where some of these tobacco factories and bakeries were located. Quite a few of them are still standing.
ETA - you can access the Sanborn maps online... I don't remember the website though
ETA - you can access the Sanborn maps online... I don't remember the website though
This post was edited on 10/1/16 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 10/1/16 at 7:19 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Latrobe has an interesting history.
Posted on 10/1/16 at 7:40 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 8:00 am
Posted on 10/1/16 at 8:04 pm to TheIrishFro
fricking love these threads
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Posted on 10/1/16 at 8:14 pm to OWLFAN86
You already know what a whorehouse looks like.
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