Architecture
Charles and James Dakin
Louisiana architects Charles Dakin and James Dakin designed the Old State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, as well as the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, among other projects.
Louisiana architects Charles Dakin and James Dakin designed the Old State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, as well as the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, among other projects.
The architectural firm Curtis and Davis designed the Superdome, Rivergate, and other notable buildings in New Orleans and throughout the state.
Entry covers the life and work of New Orleans architect James Freret.
Twentieth-century Louisiana architect John Jacob Desmond pioneered a style of regional modernism.
Renowned Chicago architect Louis Henry Sullivan designed only one building in Louisiana, Union Station in New Orleans.
The National Archives of France in Paris is an important resource for scholars of early Louisiana architecture.
The shotgun house, prevalent in New Orleans architecture, is typically a long, narrow house facing the street, with a roof ridge that runs perpendicular to the front entrance.
Since 1850, the St. Louis Cathedral’s impressive three-steeple facade has become the city’s most recognizable building.
This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.
The architectural firm of Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth is best known for designing public buildings in the 1930s, many of which were commissioned by Governor Huey Long.
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