NEW ORLEANS ARCHITECTURE, VOLUME VII: JEFFERSON CITY, TOLEDANO STREET TO JOSEPH STREET, CLAIBORNE AVENUE TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

By The Friends of the Cabildo and Associates of the Louisiana State Museum. Dorothy G. Schlesinger, Robert J. Cangelosi, Jr., and Sally Kittredge Reeves (compilers, editors). Bernard Lemann, Samuel Wilson, Jr., Sally Kittredge Reeves, and John E. Walker (contributing authors). Walter B. Moses (photographer).

ISBN 10: 0882896687 / ISBN 13: 9780882896687

Published by Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company and The Friends of the Cabildo, May 1989., 1989

About this Item

First edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice) SIGNED BY ALL COMPILERS, EDITORS, AUTHORS, AND PHOTOGRAPHER. xvi, 192 pages. Hardcover: H 30cm x L 23.5cm. White dust jacket lightly soiled and rubbed; light brown stain at top edge of rear panel with two short closed tears at bottom edge; short closed tear at top edge of front panel; dj now presented in a mylar protector. Dark aquamarine colored cloth boards; top corners bumped with bottom corners nicked; spine head bumped with slight chip to cloth at heel. 1860 plan of the City of Jefferson on both sets of light blue endpapers. Frontispiece; essay titled "The Uptown Experience" by Bernard Lemann; chapter on the early history of Jefferson by Samuel Wilson, Jr.; b/w photographs; illustrations; maps; plans; elevations; Bibliography; Index. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with the signatures of Schlesinger, Cangelosi, Reeves, Lemann, Wilson, Walker, and Moses on the title page (dual editor and author Reeves' single signature is to the immediate right of her editor/compiler citation rather than at her author citation). Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. ISBN 0882896687.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NEW ORLEANS ARCHITECTURE, VOLUME VII: JEFFERSON CITY, TOLEDANO STREET TO JOSEPH STREET, CLAIBORNE AVENUE TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
• Publisher: Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company and The Friends of the Cabildo, May 1989.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882896687
• ISBN 13: 9780882896687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Regional

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Synopsis

Traces the development of Uptown New Orleans. A thoroughly researched history of the area tells how the land was transformed from the sprawling plantation to an agricultural suburb and finally to the elegant residential city of the 1870s and after. A complete architectural inventory lists all noteworthy buildings of the neighborhood.

About the Author

The Friends of the Cabildo is a nonprofit volunteer group that provides support to and furthers the educational programming of the Louisiana State Museum.