Architecture
Emile Weil
Known for the vast range of buildings he designed, Emile Weil played an important role in Louisiana';s architecture in the first third of the twentieth century.
Known for the vast range of buildings he designed, Emile Weil played an important role in Louisiana';s architecture in the first third of the twentieth century.
Plaquemines Parish architecture
A portion of Louisiana was once the western extremity of colonial Florida
The Fontainebleau State Park bears the name of Bernard de Marigny's sugar plantation, which formerly occupied this site and was itself named after the estate of the French king Francois I.
The geodesic dome was pioneered by architect Buckminster Fuller in the mid-twentieth century, and used in several notable Louisiana landmarks.
The architecture of Glencoe Plantation in Louisiana is unusually elaborate and resembles an illustration from a child's fairy-tale book.
Organized in 1827, Grace Church serves Louisiana's second oldest Episcopal parish.
The massive Greek Revival plantation house is a modern replica of the original structure at Greenwood which burned to the ground in 1960.
The Gretna City Hall building is conventional in its Beaux-Arts forms, but, squeezed onto its narrow site, it is a compact composition with a vertical emphasis.
The Barrow family built Highland Plantation in antebellum St. Francisville, Louisiana.
New Orleans's French Quarter was an early testing ground for preservation measures, and it continues to be one today.
For the first sixty years of its existence, the Hotel Bentley was the social hub of Alexandria.
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