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Category Archives: History
Krewe of Boo tonight
Parade’s formation location: Elysian Fields and Decatur St Formation time: 5:00pm
Starting time: 6:00pm
The parade will form on Elysian Fields Avenue and North Peters Street. It will
turn right onto North Peters Street in an uptown direction on North Peters Street (against traffic against the flood wall). Upon reaching Dumaine Street the parade will continue in an uptown direction with the normal flow of traffic on Decatur to N. Peters, to Canal Street, where the parade will turn right onto Canal Street to Dauphine Street where it will u-turn to the opposite side of Canal Street to Tchoupitoulas Street where it will turn right on Tchoupitoulas Street to St. Joseph Street turn left onto St. Joseph Street to Convention Center Boulevard, and make a right turn against traffic onto Convention Center onto Henderson., and proceed to Mardi Gras World for disband.
NO PARKING ZONES:
On the river bound side of Elysian Fields Avenue between N. Peters and Royal Streets from 12:00pm, until 8:00pm.
On both sides of N. Peters Street between Esplanade Avenue and Conti Street from 4:00pm until 8:00pm.
American Horror Story: Coven Location Guide
Great overview of the locations for this series and, really, just some great houses and sites around New Orleans to visit for any reason.
American Horror Story: Coven Location Guide | Deep South Magazine – Southern Food, Travel & Lit.
A serious renovation begins on Royal Street house
(original post from 2013)
This is a nice little house in the 1000 block of Royal Street between Ursuline and St. Philip. The family that owned for the last 80 years sold it after using it as rental property for much of that time. The new owner is reportedly from New Orleans and is moving back to live in this house, once renovated.
Literally, the house has been taken down to its front and side outside walls and will be expanded over the next year or more. That back house has been empty forever and they will deal with it after the front house is done.
Stay tuned for more pictures over the next few months….
The front of the house as of 10-18-2013
looking into the house from the courtyard
The long abandoned house at the back of the property in the courtyard.
Not seven hills, just seven districts in our history
Another practical history lesson from Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture and a Monroe Fellow with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, is the author of “Bienville’s Dilemma,” “Geographies of New Orleans,” and the forthcoming “Bourbon Street: A History” (2014). He may be reached through rcampane@tulane.edu or @nolacampanella on Twitter.
Until just a few years ago, each of the seven districts elected its own assessors, who staffed their own offices and assessed taxes independently — a system unique in the nation. It took civic intervention after Hurricane Katrina to finally consolidate those political redundancies.
Plantations, faubourgs, Creoles, Anglos, competition, expansion, drainage, politics, taxes: embedded in that seemingly mundane map are sundry episodes in the human geography of New Orleans, going back 200 years.
French Quarter block by block 
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