New Orleans

Its Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings

“The composite face of New Orleans is an old face and a young face, worn, and some think repellent, in places, but fair and sweet and good to look upon in others. But whether worn or fresh it is an interesting face, a face of charm and character.” So wrote Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis in New Orleans: Its Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings, his influential documentary study of New Orleans’ historic building typologies that was published in 1933. less

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