21/01: Garden District
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
After the Louisiana Purchased was signed, Americans moved to the New Orleans area. Instead of settling in the French Quarter, they built homes on what were plantations. Many of the lavish homes still stand today in the area is known as the Garden District. Today we did a self-guided walking tour of the Garden District. Being an older area there are lots of mature trees and being a wealthy area there are lots of fences. Both these items prevented us from getting a lot of good photos.
It was another warm (high 60s) sunny day today.
Seeing flowering bushes and a few flowers in gardens made it feel like spring is on the way. Too bad it'll still be winter when we go home.
Except for a small section near the top of the building partially hidden by the tree, the entire front of the building is covered with ivy.
We had heard the Nicholas Cage had owned a home in the Garden District of New Orleans, so we had a running joke trying to guess where he had lived. We were surprised when we came across this house with a sign that indicated that Nicolas Cage had owned this house.
The photo on the left: The home that Nicolas Cage had owned was originally a Catholic Chapel -- Our Mother of Perpetual Help. The photo on the right is a post in a fence.
The cornstalk fences can be found at three homes in New Orleans. The story goes that Short’s wife missed the cornfields in her native Iowa, so he bought her the cornstalk fence. But a revised explanation has the wife requesting it because it was the most expensive, showy fence in the building catalog.
Anne Rice lived in this house once. The roots of the live oak trees come up to the surface and fill the area between the sidewalks and the roads.
Many of the homes have beautiful balconies on the side of the house. Today they overlook neighbours yards but when they were built they were over beautiful gardens.
It was another warm (high 60s) sunny day today.
Seeing flowering bushes and a few flowers in gardens made it feel like spring is on the way. Too bad it'll still be winter when we go home.
Except for a small section near the top of the building partially hidden by the tree, the entire front of the building is covered with ivy.
We had heard the Nicholas Cage had owned a home in the Garden District of New Orleans, so we had a running joke trying to guess where he had lived. We were surprised when we came across this house with a sign that indicated that Nicolas Cage had owned this house.
The photo on the left: The home that Nicolas Cage had owned was originally a Catholic Chapel -- Our Mother of Perpetual Help. The photo on the right is a post in a fence.
The cornstalk fences can be found at three homes in New Orleans. The story goes that Short’s wife missed the cornfields in her native Iowa, so he bought her the cornstalk fence. But a revised explanation has the wife requesting it because it was the most expensive, showy fence in the building catalog.
Anne Rice lived in this house once. The roots of the live oak trees come up to the surface and fill the area between the sidewalks and the roads.
Many of the homes have beautiful balconies on the side of the house. Today they overlook neighbours yards but when they were built they were over beautiful gardens.