New Orleans City Park (Images of America) - Softcover

Campanella, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738587583 ISBN 13: 9780738587585

Publisher: Arcdia Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Join author Catherine Campanella as she recounts the history of one of the country's largest city parks located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

City Park's 1,300 acres cradle the largest collection of mature live oaks in the nation. Established in 1854, it is one of the country's largest urban parks (457 acres larger than New York's City's Central Park and two years older) and contains the highest earthen elevation in New Orleans. City Park has welcomed as many as 11 million visitors per year who walk among 50 species of trees, including bald cypress, southern magnolia, and pine, and the thousands of ancient southern live oaks. At one mile wide and three miles long, the park's 11 miles of lagoons (the largest in the shape of Lake Pontchartrain) are stocked with a variety of fish. Neoclassical, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts and Crafts, Mission, and modern architecture complete City Park. It is a precious and beloved jewel.

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Campanella is the author of Lake Pontchartrain (2007) and Metairie (2008), both in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Photographs of City Park through its long history have been gleaned from the New Orleans Public Library, the Louisiana Digital Library, the Library of Congress, and D.C. "Infrogmation" May's beautiful photographs of his hometown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcdia Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738587583
• ISBN 13: 9780738587585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128