Architecture
Lakefront Airport
In order to accommodate seaplanes as well as land-based craft, New Orleans's Lakefront Airport was built on land dredged from Lake Pontchartrain to create a site that projects into the lake.
Late-20th Century
Late-20th Century Index
Sports & Recreation
Larry Gilbert
Larry Gilbert played major-league baseball, including in the 1914 World Series, before managing the New Orleans Pelicans.
History
Late Twentieth-Century Louisiana
Louisiana entered the 1960s behind the national curve in postwar development but poised for dramatic progress.
Architecture
Laurel Valley Plantation
In the early twentieth century, Thibodaux's Laurel Valley Plantation was the largest sugar producer in the region and employed as many as 450 workers.
Architecture
Layton Castle
Layton Castle, a rambling, maze-like brick home built in 1814, is an architectural landmark in Monroe, Louisiana.
History
Lea Joyner
Methodist pastor Lea Joyner, the only ordained woman in the Methodist Church in mid-twentieth century Louisiana, was one of the most popular pastors in the state.
Government, Politics & Law
Leander Perez
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
8.15. i. Leander Perez
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
Architecture
LeBeau Plantation
The LeBeau House plantation occupies one of the narrow lots typical of The Island, the area between the Mississippi and False rivers.
Music
Lee Dorsey
Vocalist Lee Dorsey recorded some of the biggest rhythm and blues hits of the 1960s.
Art
Lee Estes
Photographer Lee Estes is best known for his precise and extensive black and white photographic documentation of vernacular subjects, especially architecture.
History
Lee Harvey Oswald
New Orleans-born Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
