Taken from Nola.com, with thanks to Justin Kray who scoured the web to find this map.
Pump Station 24 (at the end of Pritchard Place on the Monticello Canal) uses only 60 cycle power.
Showing posts with label About NorthWest Carrollton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label About NorthWest Carrollton. Show all posts
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
Campanella Map - Carrollton Ridge
NorthWest Carrollton is on the northwestern edge of the Carrollton Ridge
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Arts Market @ Palmer Park - shop local!
http://www.artscouncilneworleans.org/article.php?story=artsmarket.facts
The Arts Market of New Orleans takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the LAST Saturday of every month.
Special Holiday two-day show Saturday December 21 and Sunday December 22nd .
What kind of art is featured at the Arts Market?
The Arts Market features handmade, affordable art from local and regional artists and artisans. Styles of art include Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry, Wood, and Printmaking, plus handmade clothing, soap, and other delights. Between 75 and 135 artists display and sell their wares each month.
Map to the Arts Market of New Orleans in Palmer Park
Corner of S. Carrollton and S. Claiborne Ave.
The Arts Market of New Orleans takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the LAST Saturday of every month.
Special Holiday two-day show Saturday December 21 and Sunday December 22nd .
What kind of art is featured at the Arts Market?
The Arts Market features handmade, affordable art from local and regional artists and artisans. Styles of art include Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry, Wood, and Printmaking, plus handmade clothing, soap, and other delights. Between 75 and 135 artists display and sell their wares each month.
Map to the Arts Market of New Orleans in Palmer Park
Corner of S. Carrollton and S. Claiborne Ave.Friday, October 11, 2013
Municipal Districts.... NorthWest Carrollton in in the 7th
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2013/10/new_orleans_seven_municipal_di.html
Written by 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.
Consider the map on this page. You've seen it many times: the boundaries of the seven municipal districts of New Orleans, those bureaucratic spaces through which real estate transactions and tax assessments are organized. What could be more mundane?
What seems mundane, though, oftentimes reveals more about history and culture than landmarks or museum pieces. What you're seeing in this map is 200 years of tumultuous local machinations.
Let's start with Districts 1, 2 and 3, which are separated by Canal Street and Esplanade Avenue. Into the mid-1800s, the Francophone Creole population generally settled at the riverside end of what are now Districts 2 and 3, that is, the French Quarter, faubourgs Treme and Marigny and some of present-day Bywater.
Most members of the incoming English-speaking Anglo-American population, meanwhile, settled in what is now District 1, which was called Faubourg St. Mary at the time and now is the Central Business District.
Cultural differences between the Creole and Anglo populations, each of which developed alliances with various immigrant groups, led to economic and political tensions, which in turn led to a draconian solution: instead of learning to get along, why not get a divorce?
New Orleans in 1836 thus divided itself into three semi-autonomous municipalities, each with its own council, police, schools, port, services and amenities, ostensibly united under a single mayor and a general council. Each even had its own seal.
Because Canal Street roughly separated Anglo and Creole neighborhoods, it became the logical dividing line for the two new municipalities. The mostly Creole area from Canal and Esplanade was labeled the First Municipality, while the Anglo-dominated area from Canal to Felicity (New Orleans' upper edge at the time) became the Second Municipality.
Locals semi-jokingly described the spacious Canal Street median as a "neutral ground" between the rival ethnicities, borrowing an old colonial-era term for disputed regions between imperial claims. The term caught on and is now used to describe medians citywide.
Because Esplanade Avenue divided the Creole area into two roughly equal halves, that wide thoroughfare became the line between the First and Third municipalities. Farthest from the urban core and downstream from its pollutants, the Third Municipality found itself on the losing end of most local maneuverings and the recipient of several unflattering nicknames: "The Old Third," "The Poor Third," "The Dirty Third," and, sarcastically, "The Glorious Third."
The municipality system was a spectacularly terrible idea. It wasted resources, pitted neighborhoods against each other, confused visitors and wreaked havoc on the city's bond rating.
"Had the Legislature sought, by the most careful efforts, to create a war of races, to make distinction between Creole and American, they could not have chosen a better means...than the present division," wrote the Third Municipality's Daily Orleanian in 1849.
The municipality system finally was abandoned in 1852, and the city was reunified -- but only after the Anglo contingent had established alliances with German and Irish immigrants and, as the new electoral majority, started winning elections.
The 1852 reunification entailed some confusing renaming: the old First Municipality became the Second Municipal District, the Second Municipality became the First, and the Third remained the Third.
Also that year, New Orleans successfully annexed the neighboring City of Lafayette out of Jefferson Parish, an expansion that pushed Orleans Parish's limits from Felicity to Toledano Street. Why there? Because that's where four old French long-lot plantations -- belonging to the Ursuline nuns and the Panis, Livaudais and Delassize families -- had been previously subdivided into streets and parcels. Now as part of New Orleans proper, these lands became the Fourth Municipal District, today's Irish Channel, Garden District and Central City.
Eighteen years later, an opportunity arose for New Orleans to annex Algiers on the West Bank, as well as the east bank City of Jefferson, which is the heart of today's Uptown.
Proceeding in numerical order, Algiers became the Fifth Municipal District and the former City of Jefferson -- between Toledano and the lower line of the old McCarty plantation (hence Lowerline Street) -- became the Sixth.
Finally in 1874, New Orleans annexed the Jefferson Parish City of Carrollton, which pushed the parish line from Lowerline to Monticello (the upper line of the old McCarty plantation), where the city limit remains today. This final expansion made Carrollton the Seventh municipal district.
One major, final change awaited the municipal district map. When first sketched in the mid-1800s, authorities felt little need to extend the district boundaries too far into the back swamp, because hardly anyone lived there.
But after the drainage system was installed in the late 1800s, and its pumps, pipes and outfall canals ejected runoff and lowered the water table, new development spread in the early 1900s. With it came the need to administer thousands of new real estate transactions.
Thus authorities extended the First, Second, Third and Seventh district lines to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, and used existing political or physical boundaries -- the Jefferson Parish line, the New Basin Canal and Bayou St. John -- to separate them.
The Fifth Municipal District on the West Bank, meanwhile, was extended downriver to encompass the rural lower coast of Algiers.
Why not extend the Fourth and Sixth? Because the concavity of the Mississippi River's meander meant that those wedge-shaped districts -- the products of 15 slender, colonial-era plantations -- converged around present-day Gerttown, and never reached any further lakeward.
Thus, our municipal districts trace our urban expansion over the last 161 years. Why, for example, is today's Third District so large? Because the eastern half of the parish was once very lightly peopled, which made delineating all of its meager population into one gigantic district seem like a good idea -- though it no longer does today.
Think how different the metro area would be today had New Orleans not annexed present-day districts Four, Six and Seven out of Jefferson Parish.
Consider also the impact of these lines on modern city life. Each district's autonomous or semi-autonomous heritage fostered the development of a certain level of parochialism, which persisted long after the 1852 unification and the last annexation in 1874.
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.
Written by 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.
(NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
What seems mundane, though, oftentimes reveals more about history and culture than landmarks or museum pieces. What you're seeing in this map is 200 years of tumultuous local machinations.
Let's start with Districts 1, 2 and 3, which are separated by Canal Street and Esplanade Avenue. Into the mid-1800s, the Francophone Creole population generally settled at the riverside end of what are now Districts 2 and 3, that is, the French Quarter, faubourgs Treme and Marigny and some of present-day Bywater.
Most members of the incoming English-speaking Anglo-American population, meanwhile, settled in what is now District 1, which was called Faubourg St. Mary at the time and now is the Central Business District.
Cultural differences between the Creole and Anglo populations, each of which developed alliances with various immigrant groups, led to economic and political tensions, which in turn led to a draconian solution: instead of learning to get along, why not get a divorce?
New Orleans in 1836 thus divided itself into three semi-autonomous municipalities, each with its own council, police, schools, port, services and amenities, ostensibly united under a single mayor and a general council. Each even had its own seal.
Because Canal Street roughly separated Anglo and Creole neighborhoods, it became the logical dividing line for the two new municipalities. The mostly Creole area from Canal and Esplanade was labeled the First Municipality, while the Anglo-dominated area from Canal to Felicity (New Orleans' upper edge at the time) became the Second Municipality.
Locals semi-jokingly described the spacious Canal Street median as a "neutral ground" between the rival ethnicities, borrowing an old colonial-era term for disputed regions between imperial claims. The term caught on and is now used to describe medians citywide.
Because Esplanade Avenue divided the Creole area into two roughly equal halves, that wide thoroughfare became the line between the First and Third municipalities. Farthest from the urban core and downstream from its pollutants, the Third Municipality found itself on the losing end of most local maneuverings and the recipient of several unflattering nicknames: "The Old Third," "The Poor Third," "The Dirty Third," and, sarcastically, "The Glorious Third."
The municipality system was a spectacularly terrible idea. It wasted resources, pitted neighborhoods against each other, confused visitors and wreaked havoc on the city's bond rating.
"Had the Legislature sought, by the most careful efforts, to create a war of races, to make distinction between Creole and American, they could not have chosen a better means...than the present division," wrote the Third Municipality's Daily Orleanian in 1849.
The municipality system finally was abandoned in 1852, and the city was reunified -- but only after the Anglo contingent had established alliances with German and Irish immigrants and, as the new electoral majority, started winning elections.
The 1852 reunification entailed some confusing renaming: the old First Municipality became the Second Municipal District, the Second Municipality became the First, and the Third remained the Third.
Also that year, New Orleans successfully annexed the neighboring City of Lafayette out of Jefferson Parish, an expansion that pushed Orleans Parish's limits from Felicity to Toledano Street. Why there? Because that's where four old French long-lot plantations -- belonging to the Ursuline nuns and the Panis, Livaudais and Delassize families -- had been previously subdivided into streets and parcels. Now as part of New Orleans proper, these lands became the Fourth Municipal District, today's Irish Channel, Garden District and Central City.
Eighteen years later, an opportunity arose for New Orleans to annex Algiers on the West Bank, as well as the east bank City of Jefferson, which is the heart of today's Uptown.
Proceeding in numerical order, Algiers became the Fifth Municipal District and the former City of Jefferson -- between Toledano and the lower line of the old McCarty plantation (hence Lowerline Street) -- became the Sixth.
Finally in 1874, New Orleans annexed the Jefferson Parish City of Carrollton, which pushed the parish line from Lowerline to Monticello (the upper line of the old McCarty plantation), where the city limit remains today. This final expansion made Carrollton the Seventh municipal district.
One major, final change awaited the municipal district map. When first sketched in the mid-1800s, authorities felt little need to extend the district boundaries too far into the back swamp, because hardly anyone lived there.
But after the drainage system was installed in the late 1800s, and its pumps, pipes and outfall canals ejected runoff and lowered the water table, new development spread in the early 1900s. With it came the need to administer thousands of new real estate transactions.
Thus authorities extended the First, Second, Third and Seventh district lines to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, and used existing political or physical boundaries -- the Jefferson Parish line, the New Basin Canal and Bayou St. John -- to separate them.
The Fifth Municipal District on the West Bank, meanwhile, was extended downriver to encompass the rural lower coast of Algiers.
Why not extend the Fourth and Sixth? Because the concavity of the Mississippi River's meander meant that those wedge-shaped districts -- the products of 15 slender, colonial-era plantations -- converged around present-day Gerttown, and never reached any further lakeward.
Thus, our municipal districts trace our urban expansion over the last 161 years. Why, for example, is today's Third District so large? Because the eastern half of the parish was once very lightly peopled, which made delineating all of its meager population into one gigantic district seem like a good idea -- though it no longer does today.
Think how different the metro area would be today had New Orleans not annexed present-day districts Four, Six and Seven out of Jefferson Parish.
Consider also the impact of these lines on modern city life. Each district's autonomous or semi-autonomous heritage fostered the development of a certain level of parochialism, which persisted long after the 1852 unification and the last annexation in 1874.
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.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Historic Homes... quality construction
Great article on the value of purchasing an older home... they are built to withstand what Mother Nature throws at them... much higher quality than what is built with today's material.....
Because the house was .... raised up on brick piers, the surge water hadn’t made it to the high plastered ceilings but had filled the house up with several feet of sea water before finding its way back out through doors and wall openings. Studying the hand-planed, tall single-board trim around the floors and the water mill-sawn framing, it was clear the structure had been built in the very early 19th century. Katrina was clearly not its first hurricane rodeo.
the reality became clear that the best insurance they had was how they were built. The lime-based plaster walls with cypress lathe held up totally intact after an extended period submerged in flood water, compared to homes that had been re-muddled with modern drywall and were covered with wide bands of black mold. The quarter-sawn heart-pine floors were still pristine under a layer of mud, while the modern replacement floor systems were swollen and buckled beyond salvage. The reality that the older homes were built for disasters, decades prior to the introduction of homeowners; insurance in the 1950s, was becoming glaringly obvious. How quickly we forget how and why we should build to withstand the forces of nature. In today’s world, images of neighborhoods demolished by natural disasters are commonplace, but how many people realize that the real reason we see higher and higher damage estimates has largely to do with how substandard so much of what we build today is when subjected to the powerful forces of nature? In truth, building codes were created for the most part to protect mortgage and insurance companies, but why is the bar set so low? As my builder friend John Abrams once said, “When someone says that everything they build meets code, what they are really saying is that if they built it any worse, it would be illegal.”
Because the house was .... raised up on brick piers, the surge water hadn’t made it to the high plastered ceilings but had filled the house up with several feet of sea water before finding its way back out through doors and wall openings. Studying the hand-planed, tall single-board trim around the floors and the water mill-sawn framing, it was clear the structure had been built in the very early 19th century. Katrina was clearly not its first hurricane rodeo.
the reality became clear that the best insurance they had was how they were built. The lime-based plaster walls with cypress lathe held up totally intact after an extended period submerged in flood water, compared to homes that had been re-muddled with modern drywall and were covered with wide bands of black mold. The quarter-sawn heart-pine floors were still pristine under a layer of mud, while the modern replacement floor systems were swollen and buckled beyond salvage. The reality that the older homes were built for disasters, decades prior to the introduction of homeowners; insurance in the 1950s, was becoming glaringly obvious. How quickly we forget how and why we should build to withstand the forces of nature. In today’s world, images of neighborhoods demolished by natural disasters are commonplace, but how many people realize that the real reason we see higher and higher damage estimates has largely to do with how substandard so much of what we build today is when subjected to the powerful forces of nature? In truth, building codes were created for the most part to protect mortgage and insurance companies, but why is the bar set so low? As my builder friend John Abrams once said, “When someone says that everything they build meets code, what they are really saying is that if they built it any worse, it would be illegal.”
Monday, August 19, 2013
Racial Dot Map
Take a look at the Racial Dot Map : http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
Here's the Legend:
Here's it zoomed in as far as it will go on the NorthWest Carrollton Area.
Note:
The cluster of red dots at the Notre Dame Seminary
The blank area of Palmer Park and Walgreens/Roberts and Harrell Park
Here's a broader city view......
Here's the Legend:
Here's it zoomed in as far as it will go on the NorthWest Carrollton Area.
Note:
The cluster of red dots at the Notre Dame Seminary
The blank area of Palmer Park and Walgreens/Roberts and Harrell Park
Here's a broader city view......
Monday, April 15, 2013
Why Apricot, Apple, Fig?
Taken from Tim Garrett's History of Marlyville-Fountainbleau
On July 9, 1894, New Orleans city commissioners did so with the passage of voluminous Act 9411, which further mandated that all of Carrollton’s numbered streets be renamed after hardwood or fruit trees (Maple, Birch, Apricot).
Earhart was originally named 14th Street and was renamed in 1949 to honor
On July 9, 1894, New Orleans city commissioners did so with the passage of voluminous Act 9411, which further mandated that all of Carrollton’s numbered streets be renamed after hardwood or fruit trees (Maple, Birch, Apricot).
Earhart was originally named 14th Street and was renamed in 1949 to honor
Mayor Fred A.
Earhart. Too bad it wasn't to honor Amelia Earhart.
Pritchard Place was originally named Brickyard Street and then Woodruff Street before being renamed in honor of RO Pritchard a local hotelier.
Pritchard Place was originally named Brickyard Street and then Woodruff Street before being renamed in honor of RO Pritchard a local hotelier.
Monday, January 7, 2013
The Louisiana Landmarks Society Most Endangered Sites
New Orleans Nine most endangered sites as presented by Louisiana Landmark Society is dedicated to drawing attention to the significant and threatened sites in our city. The purpose is of the programs is to build awareness of architecturally and historically significant places in New Orleans that are in danger of being lost.
2011 Shotguns
NorthWest Carrollton has these!
Many are for sale. You can buy a piece of history!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwcarrollton/sets/72157632416785981/
2010 Decommissioned Churches
NorthWest Carrollton has this! And it is "for lease".
http://nwcarrollton.blogspot.com/2011/01/church-for-sale-in-northwest-carrollton.html
2011 Shotguns
NorthWest Carrollton has these!Many are for sale. You can buy a piece of history!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwcarrollton/sets/72157632416785981/
2010 Decommissioned Churches
NorthWest Carrollton has this! And it is "for lease".
http://nwcarrollton.blogspot.com/2011/01/church-for-sale-in-northwest-carrollton.html
Saturday, September 29, 2012
8200 block of Nelson Street & Arts Market
Stephanie Bruno was in NorthWest Carrollton again. Thanks Stephanie!
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/09/craftsman_houses_fill_arts_mar.html
Northwest Carrollton, bounded roughly by Earhart Boulevard on the north, South Claiborne Avenue on the south, South Carrollton Avenue on the east and Leonidas Street on the west. The neighborhood is one of four Carrollton Historic District areas that converge at the intersection of Claiborne and Carrollton, the other three being Fontainebleau, Central Carrollton and Palmer Park. Northwest Carrollton is primarily residential but benefits from its proximity to commercial assets on thoroughfares such as Claiborne and Earhart Boulevard.
The area was developed in the early 1900s and showcases a variety of houses built in styles reflecting that era, especially Craftsman. When traveling through Northwest Carrollton, look for old-fashioned corner stores-turned-residences that appear every few blocks. Many still have intact awnings over the sidewalk.
THE BLOCK: The 8200 block of Nelson Street on the odd-numbered, or north, side, between Dublin Street on the east and Dante Street on the west. It's just a block from verdant Palmer Park, where the "fall kick-off" of the Arts Council's monthly Arts Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
THE HOUSES: Nine, including three large two-story houses, most of which appear to date from the early 20th century and have Craftsman styling. One is a double shotgun, but others
are bungalows.
********
When the Golden Rain trees start to bloom yellow, I know that autumn weather is almost here. It's been playing hide-and-seek with us for the past couple of weeks, but temperatures have already moderated to the extent that a late morning or early afternoon visit to the Arts Market of New Orleans at Palmer Park sounds inviting.
Ever curious about neighborhoods surrounding and bordering such events, I set out earlier in the week to find a good block to recommend for Street Walking en route to or after the market. The 8200 block of Nelson Street fills the bill just fine.
Clever Craftsman details highlight to houses on the 8200 block of Nelson Street.
Anatomy of the block
I pass up the multi-level house at the corner of Dante and Nelson in favor of the house to its right, a Craftsman bungalow in dusky shades of taupe with purpley-pink trim. The description sounds awful, but that's because I can't come up with just the right words to convey the hue of the body and trim colors. In person, the colors work very well together.
The house has an asymmetrical facade with the entry porch situated to the left and a bank of windows on the right. The front-gabled roof over the porch intersects a side-gabled roof over the main body of the house, presenting the multiple rooflines indicative of the Craftsman style. Three short, interconnected square posts rest atop brick pedestals and support the porch roof, another Craftsman configuration. Post brackets in the front gable eave, a decorative gable vent cover and exposed rafter tails under the side eaves contribute to the composition.
Two features in particular attract my attention: The low, shed-roofed dormer in the side-gabled roof and the detailing of porch posts. The profile of the dormer is so low that it looks like a sleepy eyelid with just enough energy to lift itself above the roof line. The posts impress for the horizontal wood bars pegged into them, connecting one to the other.
The house I encounter a few paces farther along is partially obscured by ebullient vegetation, but that is part of its charm. I usually complain about not being able to see the facade when unruly plants block the view, but here the peek I get at the porch detailing and gable decor gives me a satisfying taste of what the house is about (plus I am enchanted by the 12-foot-tall red hibiscus that so cheerfully complements the butter-yellow facade.)
Without trespassing, I can enjoy another variation on the theme of clustered-posts-atop-masonry-pedestals. The difference here is that the element that interconnects the three posts is at the top, rather than part way down, and cut in a distinctive stepped pattern. Details in the front-facing gable are plentiful, but easy to miss if you aren't on foot because all are painted the same color. The elaborately configured gable includes a band of stucco with applied wood timbering in the portion closest to the gable peak; lower, a band of clapboards inset with an understated rectangular gable vent, and below that a wide skirt board above the columns.
An appealing Craftsman double -- all in white -- follows, but it's in the shade so I pass it by. Then I walk past what I think is a new house and then reach a peach-colored bungalow with a low-pitched porch roof. Enough modifications have been made to the facade that I am not sure at first if the house is old or new, but a glance down each side convinces me it is the former. Like the house with the red hibiscus, this one has bamboo matting rolled up close to the porch ceiling, ready to be unfurled against the afternoon sun.
A composition in black and white awaits me as I move closer to the Dublin corner. It's a white Craftsman bungalow very similar in configuration and details to the first house I visited (check out the porch posts), but black security iron and screening conceal some of the details. That's OK; I can still appreciate the intersecting rooflines, the now-familiar interconnecting posts atop pedestals, the exposed rafter tails and the clever detailing of the gable vent.
Ah! A two-story, multi-unit Craftsman house with a bounty of details and a highly unusual configuration of entry doors! I have never, ever seen three doors quite like this: One in the center that likely leads to a stair to the second level and one on either side of it, set at an angle of about 45 degrees and offering entry to the two downstairs units. On either side of the doors on the lower level of the house are banks of four casement windows: three set flat in the plane of the facade, but one angled out to meet the edge of the entry door. So interesting!
Of course there are additional Craftsman elements to admire, including the gable-fronted roof on the right intersecting the hipped roof over the main body of the house, the exposed rafter tails in the side eaves, the exceptionally stout battered wood columns resting atop masonry pedestals. But the angled doors and windows take the prize for originality.
Life on the street
About midway through my walk, I realize that there are two men on the porch behind me when I am snapping pictures.
One sits on the steps, another in a chair, both in deep shade. We chat briefly and then I move on.
Just then a car pulls up, a man gets out and then heads toward one of the houses on the opposite side of the street from the men.
"I see ya," the man on the steps calls out.
"I hear ya," the man across the street replies, and continues on his way.
********
R. Stephanie Bruno can be reached at housewatcher@hotmail.com.
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/09/craftsman_houses_fill_arts_mar.html
Northwest Carrollton, bounded roughly by Earhart Boulevard on the north, South Claiborne Avenue on the south, South Carrollton Avenue on the east and Leonidas Street on the west. The neighborhood is one of four Carrollton Historic District areas that converge at the intersection of Claiborne and Carrollton, the other three being Fontainebleau, Central Carrollton and Palmer Park. Northwest Carrollton is primarily residential but benefits from its proximity to commercial assets on thoroughfares such as Claiborne and Earhart Boulevard.
The area was developed in the early 1900s and showcases a variety of houses built in styles reflecting that era, especially Craftsman. When traveling through Northwest Carrollton, look for old-fashioned corner stores-turned-residences that appear every few blocks. Many still have intact awnings over the sidewalk.
THE BLOCK: The 8200 block of Nelson Street on the odd-numbered, or north, side, between Dublin Street on the east and Dante Street on the west. It's just a block from verdant Palmer Park, where the "fall kick-off" of the Arts Council's monthly Arts Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
THE HOUSES: Nine, including three large two-story houses, most of which appear to date from the early 20th century and have Craftsman styling. One is a double shotgun, but others
are bungalows.
********
When the Golden Rain trees start to bloom yellow, I know that autumn weather is almost here. It's been playing hide-and-seek with us for the past couple of weeks, but temperatures have already moderated to the extent that a late morning or early afternoon visit to the Arts Market of New Orleans at Palmer Park sounds inviting.
Ever curious about neighborhoods surrounding and bordering such events, I set out earlier in the week to find a good block to recommend for Street Walking en route to or after the market. The 8200 block of Nelson Street fills the bill just fine.
Clever Craftsman details highlight to houses on the 8200 block of Nelson Street.I pass up the multi-level house at the corner of Dante and Nelson in favor of the house to its right, a Craftsman bungalow in dusky shades of taupe with purpley-pink trim. The description sounds awful, but that's because I can't come up with just the right words to convey the hue of the body and trim colors. In person, the colors work very well together.
The house has an asymmetrical facade with the entry porch situated to the left and a bank of windows on the right. The front-gabled roof over the porch intersects a side-gabled roof over the main body of the house, presenting the multiple rooflines indicative of the Craftsman style. Three short, interconnected square posts rest atop brick pedestals and support the porch roof, another Craftsman configuration. Post brackets in the front gable eave, a decorative gable vent cover and exposed rafter tails under the side eaves contribute to the composition.
Two features in particular attract my attention: The low, shed-roofed dormer in the side-gabled roof and the detailing of porch posts. The profile of the dormer is so low that it looks like a sleepy eyelid with just enough energy to lift itself above the roof line. The posts impress for the horizontal wood bars pegged into them, connecting one to the other.
The house I encounter a few paces farther along is partially obscured by ebullient vegetation, but that is part of its charm. I usually complain about not being able to see the facade when unruly plants block the view, but here the peek I get at the porch detailing and gable decor gives me a satisfying taste of what the house is about (plus I am enchanted by the 12-foot-tall red hibiscus that so cheerfully complements the butter-yellow facade.)
Without trespassing, I can enjoy another variation on the theme of clustered-posts-atop-masonry-pedestals. The difference here is that the element that interconnects the three posts is at the top, rather than part way down, and cut in a distinctive stepped pattern. Details in the front-facing gable are plentiful, but easy to miss if you aren't on foot because all are painted the same color. The elaborately configured gable includes a band of stucco with applied wood timbering in the portion closest to the gable peak; lower, a band of clapboards inset with an understated rectangular gable vent, and below that a wide skirt board above the columns.
An appealing Craftsman double -- all in white -- follows, but it's in the shade so I pass it by. Then I walk past what I think is a new house and then reach a peach-colored bungalow with a low-pitched porch roof. Enough modifications have been made to the facade that I am not sure at first if the house is old or new, but a glance down each side convinces me it is the former. Like the house with the red hibiscus, this one has bamboo matting rolled up close to the porch ceiling, ready to be unfurled against the afternoon sun.
A composition in black and white awaits me as I move closer to the Dublin corner. It's a white Craftsman bungalow very similar in configuration and details to the first house I visited (check out the porch posts), but black security iron and screening conceal some of the details. That's OK; I can still appreciate the intersecting rooflines, the now-familiar interconnecting posts atop pedestals, the exposed rafter tails and the clever detailing of the gable vent.
Ah! A two-story, multi-unit Craftsman house with a bounty of details and a highly unusual configuration of entry doors! I have never, ever seen three doors quite like this: One in the center that likely leads to a stair to the second level and one on either side of it, set at an angle of about 45 degrees and offering entry to the two downstairs units. On either side of the doors on the lower level of the house are banks of four casement windows: three set flat in the plane of the facade, but one angled out to meet the edge of the entry door. So interesting!
Of course there are additional Craftsman elements to admire, including the gable-fronted roof on the right intersecting the hipped roof over the main body of the house, the exposed rafter tails in the side eaves, the exceptionally stout battered wood columns resting atop masonry pedestals. But the angled doors and windows take the prize for originality.
Life on the street
About midway through my walk, I realize that there are two men on the porch behind me when I am snapping pictures.
One sits on the steps, another in a chair, both in deep shade. We chat briefly and then I move on.
Just then a car pulls up, a man gets out and then heads toward one of the houses on the opposite side of the street from the men.
"I see ya," the man on the steps calls out.
"I hear ya," the man across the street replies, and continues on his way.
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R. Stephanie Bruno can be reached at housewatcher@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Bubble Gum Factory
http://ourhousestories.com/american-chicle-company-factory/
Our House Stories asked if we had any buildings that they could do research on and we asked about our beloved Bubble Gum Factory and this is their Wonderful Response about the American Chicle Company in New Orleans which had a surprisingly brief life . The building was constructed in 1911. At its height, the company operated factories in 10 cities and proclaimed, "It is not unusual for shipments to be made to Siberia, Alaska, Hong Kong, and the Samoan Islands."
In the fall of 1900, the American Chicle Company announced their intentions to establish a factory in either New Orleans or Atlanta. Wishing to take direct advantage of the opportunity, a cadre of New Orleans businessmen, sponsored by the Board of Trade, dispatched a letter to the New York chewing gum concern. A Board of Trade committee made the case for New Orleans, arguing not only for the economic and geographic advantages the city offered but stating as well,
"...the unequaled advantage of her mild climate, rendering the cost of living for laborers lower, since they need less clothing, less food and slighter dwellings than in more northern cities, and the further fact that real estate is very low...combine to make this an ideal point for the manufacture of your product" [Daily Picayune, October 11, 1900].
The wheels of industry turned slowly, however. Despite the glowing recommendation from the Board of Trade (read: "We'll do anything...and our workers will subsist on next to nothing"), the company focused its resources on other markets before securing the benefits of the port of New Orleans. An ad from 1912 lists the locations of six factories the company had opened since its founding in 1899. It seems that markets in the east and midwest captured the company's attention before the south.
Another decade passed before American Chicle secured a building permit for their 3-story New Orleans factory, built at an estimated cost of $50,000 [Daily Picayune, December 3, 1910]. The factory employed 300-400 people, a number that does not include the uncounted hundreds who contributed to chicle production - from the Mexican chicleros who harvested the raw chicle, to sailors, dock workers, and draymen in New Orleans who loaded, unloaded, and transported the chicle to the factory. The operation culminated in New Orleans in the state-of-the-art factory pictured below.
When the factory opened for business, the community boasted, "In the building this year of the factory of the American Chicle Company, on a block of ground at Fig and Dante Streets, above Carrollton Avenue, a large institution was added to the city. The building itself is attractive and a point of interest" [Daily Picayune, September 1, 1911].
The satisfaction of business leaders filtered slowly to the workers. According to Martha D. Gould, Orleans Parish Factories Inspector, workers at the American Chicle factory could "enjoy the noon hour with a comfortable lunch and some diversion and recreation" in the company lunchroom [Daily Picayune, September 1, 1913]. Indeed, it seems Inspector Gould took a special interest in the lot of the women and young girls who worked at American Chicle. In the year prior, Gould arranged a dance at the American Chicle Factory attended by workers of that company and the Consumer's Biscuit Company. The "factory dance" was "the first of its kind ever given in New Orleans and perhaps in the South" [Daily Picayune, October 6, 1912].
Our House Stories asked if we had any buildings that they could do research on and we asked about our beloved Bubble Gum Factory and this is their Wonderful Response about the American Chicle Company in New Orleans which had a surprisingly brief life . The building was constructed in 1911. At its height, the company operated factories in 10 cities and proclaimed, "It is not unusual for shipments to be made to Siberia, Alaska, Hong Kong, and the Samoan Islands."
"...the unequaled advantage of her mild climate, rendering the cost of living for laborers lower, since they need less clothing, less food and slighter dwellings than in more northern cities, and the further fact that real estate is very low...combine to make this an ideal point for the manufacture of your product" [Daily Picayune, October 11, 1900].
Advertisement for Adams Pepsin Gum, an American Chicle Company product, 1917
The wheels of industry turned slowly, however. Despite the glowing recommendation from the Board of Trade (read: "We'll do anything...and our workers will subsist on next to nothing"), the company focused its resources on other markets before securing the benefits of the port of New Orleans. An ad from 1912 lists the locations of six factories the company had opened since its founding in 1899. It seems that markets in the east and midwest captured the company's attention before the south.
Another decade passed before American Chicle secured a building permit for their 3-story New Orleans factory, built at an estimated cost of $50,000 [Daily Picayune, December 3, 1910]. The factory employed 300-400 people, a number that does not include the uncounted hundreds who contributed to chicle production - from the Mexican chicleros who harvested the raw chicle, to sailors, dock workers, and draymen in New Orleans who loaded, unloaded, and transported the chicle to the factory. The operation culminated in New Orleans in the state-of-the-art factory pictured below.
Orleans Parish Factory Inspector Martha D. Gould stands at far right, March 1914. Image: KnowLa.org and LoC.gov.
Business declined rapidly for the American Chicle Company in New Orleans during the years following its initial successes. In 1914, Sentaor W.H. Thompson of Kansas included the company in a list of "628 companies which...have wiped out 9877 original companies" [Daily Picayune, September 6, 1914]. The reversal of fortunes forced the company to sell its New Orleans factory. In February 1918, the factory sold to the Marine Paint and Varnish Company for $100,000. The new owners prospered until 1959, when the company dissolved. The factory building itself changed very little through the years. With the succession of owners, the interior likely saw its share of renovations while the distinctive exterior remained relatively unchanged. The photographs below, from the Charles L. Frank and Frank-Bertacci Collection of the Louisiana Digital Library show the building in the 1930s and the 1950s. Today the building is home to the Landis Construction Company.
Photo of the Marine Paint & Varnish Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1930s. The building was built for the American Chicle Company in 1911. Image from Louisiana Digital Libraries.
Photo of the Marine Paint & Varnish Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1950s. The building was built for the American Chicle Company in 1911. Image from Louisiana Digital Library. Image from the Louisiana Digital Library Charles L. Franck and Frank-Bertacci Collection.
Photo of the Marine Paint & Varnish Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1950s. The building was built for the American Chicle Company in 1911. Image from Louisiana Digital Library.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Neighborhood Growing....and recovering
"Nearly every New Orleans neighborhood experienced gains."
Including West Carrollton/Leonidas (includes NorthWest Carrollton)
which grew by 200-300 residential addresses.
See map below from GNOCDC Website.
http://www.gnocdc.org/NeighborhoodGrowthRates/index.html
"All of the “sliver by the river” neighborhoods added households between 2010 and 2012, marking a reversal of trends between 2008 and 2010 for Audubon, Black Pearl, East Carrollton, East Riverside, French Quarter, Garden District, Iberville, Irish Channel, Touro, Uptown, and West Riverside when these neighborhoods actually lost households. However, only five of the elevated east bank neighborhoods (Black Pearl, Central Business District, East Carrollton, Lower Garden District, and Marigny) have reached 100 percent of their June 2005 pre–Katrina number.
And here is the 2010 census data for the Leonidas/West Carrollton Census Tract
Including West Carrollton/Leonidas (includes NorthWest Carrollton)
which grew by 200-300 residential addresses.
See map below from GNOCDC Website.
http://www.gnocdc.org/NeighborhoodGrowthRates/index.html
"All of the “sliver by the river” neighborhoods added households between 2010 and 2012, marking a reversal of trends between 2008 and 2010 for Audubon, Black Pearl, East Carrollton, East Riverside, French Quarter, Garden District, Iberville, Irish Channel, Touro, Uptown, and West Riverside when these neighborhoods actually lost households. However, only five of the elevated east bank neighborhoods (Black Pearl, Central Business District, East Carrollton, Lower Garden District, and Marigny) have reached 100 percent of their June 2005 pre–Katrina number.
And here is the 2010 census data for the Leonidas/West Carrollton Census Tract
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Close to everything... location, location...... location
"... Carrollton and Broadmoor blend a relaxed quality of life with a panoply of architectural marvels and styles that make them great places to call home.
As for location, well — smack in the middle of the map, this combined area is just a quick trip away from just about every part of the greater metro region.
With access to just about anywhere, a rich blend of cultural, educational and commercial outlets, Broadmoor and Carrollton are areas that maintain buyer attention in the housing market."
And this is what 2010's Times Picayune had to say
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Highlight on NorthWest Carrollton's Dublin Street
Stylistic accents stand out on a stretch of Carrollton's Dublin Street.
By R. Stephanie Bruno
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Northwest Carrollton, part of the Carrollton Historic District and bounded roughly by Earhart Boulevard on the north, South Claiborne Avenue on the south, South Carrollton Avenue on the east and Leonidas Street on the west. The Northwest Carrollton Civic Association collaborates with other Carrollton-area neighborhood groups to stage events, such as the annual Christmas caroling in Palmer Park.
PThe group considers itself one of the "four corners" neighborhoods that meet at the corners of Carrollton and Claiborne and also include the Fontainebleau, Central Carrollton and Palmer Park neighborhoods.
Craftsman bungalows and raised-basement houses join a mix of early 20th-century house types and styles to define Northwest Carrollton's visual personality. Businesses along Earhart and South Claiborne serve the neighborhood's commercial needs, while Ye Olde College Inn and Rock 'n' Bowl on Carrollton number among the dining and recreational opportunities.
If you aren't sure where Northwest Carrollton is located, just look for the lion statues atop pedestals that herald the entrance to Pritchard Place, developed in 1913.
THE BLOCK: The 2700 block of Dublin Street on the even-numbered, or west, side, between Apricot Street on the north and Belfast Street on the south.
Notre Dame Seminary and Lafayette Academy can be found just across South Carrollton Avenue.
THE HOUSES: Five early 20th-century houses, including an up-down duplex, a raised- basement double and three single-family homes.
The raised-basement and two bungalows are all in the Craftsman style. Because the house at the corner of Dublin and Apricot has a highly detailed side façade, it almost looks as if the block has a total of six addresses.
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View full sizeCraftsman bungalows and raised-basement houses join a mix of early 20th-century house types and styles to define Northwest Carrollton's visual personality.Invariably I show them areas that are examples of rejuvenation as well as those that still have work to do. I make Northwest Carrollton a featured spot on my most recent tour and trumpet the neighborhood's success in bouncing back after both a hurricane and a tornado.
I deposit my guests at the bowling alley to amuse themselves, and treat myself to a Street Walk in the 2700 block of Dublin Street, where I find interesting houses and friendly people willing to chat.
Anatomy of the block
I'm not sure if the other residents of the block were just super speedy in taking down their Christmas decorations or if few on the block decorated this year, but on the day I visit, only the first house on the block (at the corner of Belfast) still wears its holiday garb in the form of red bows affixed to its ironwork.
Blue with a hipped roof, central dormer and impressive masonry columns, the house is built atop a low terrace, giving it extra height and presence. A central set of steps leads from the sidewalk to the front porch, now glass-enclosed and protected by elaborate security ironwork. The glass is a little too reflective for me to get a good look at the front façade details, but the view from the sidewalk suggests a pleasingly symmetrical composition.
A cheery yellow two-story duplex next door exhibits an array of Craftsman features: Exposed rafter tails, deep eaves, angle brackets, multipaned gable windows, latticed gable vents, full-length battered wood columns on the second floor and shorter ones atop pedestals on the first.
The third house on the block is a Craftsman-style raised-basement house. This one looks especially tall, and I think I know why: Whereas the ground-level ceilings of raised-basement houses are usually a couple of feet lower than those above, here it looks as though the ceiling heights are equal on the two floors. The monumental central stairway adds to the vertical illusion, balanced only in part by the low-pitched horizontal lines of the side-gabled roof. That roof dormer? Low and wide, another stylistic accent.
I walk a few steps farther toward Apricot Street and stop in front of the next house, a spacious Craftsman bungalow with a full-width front porch, low-pitched roof and pairs of short columns atop brick pedestals supporting the leading edge of the roof. Like the first house on the block, this one sits atop a gentle terrace. And just like the raised-basement house, this one has a low, wide roof dormer, maybe even a mega dormer compared to its more understated neighbor.
As I walk toward the fifth house -- the one with the pretty garden and LSU flag -- I notice something embedded in the sidewalk. It appears to be a half-dozen or so coins set in the cement, all in one line. As I look closer, I see that they are foreign coins, maybe a lira, a franc, or something similar. Who set the coins in the sidewalk here? Why did they do it and when? I add this to the list of Street Walk mysteries.
The last house on the block with a Dublin Street address is a sassy Craftsman bungalow with tan weatherboards, white trim and terra-cotta accents. Even though the front porch has been enclosed with jalousie-style windows, the house still has plenty of personality, thanks to its intersecting roof gables, siding pattern (alternating wide and thin), gable vent details and post brackets. Big masses of fluffy blooming alyssum in the front garden tumble over granite boulders (perhaps ballast stones?) used for edging, adding to the house's allure. As is often the case with Craftsman bungalows, the sides of this house are as architecturally detailed as the front, yielding three vistas for consideration.
Life on the street
Cedric Todd is sitting in a car parked at the curb in front of the raised-basement house, chatting with a family member. When he asks what I'm doing, the explanation inevitably leads to a chat about the neighborhood and the block.
"This is our family home," he tells me. "It belongs to my daughter."
As Todd and I talk, another car pulls up, and Maxine Rixner and Derek Rixner, his sister and nephew, respectively, exit.
When Todd asks Maxine Rixner, "What you cookin' today?" she answers, "Great Northerns," and then offers me a brief lesson in beans.
"Great Northern is white bean, like a Navy bean," she tells me. "But the Navy bean is small and the Great Northerns are big. You cook 'em up pretty much the same way you cook red beans."
Derek Rixner joins the conversation and claims to have stuffed a flounder, but Todd laughs him off.
"The only things he knows how to cook are eggs and French fries," Todd says.
The conversation goes on long enough for Todd to ask me which Bruno I am related to, and when I tell him the bar, we discover one of those ancient connections everyone in New Orleans seems to have to one another if we dig deep enough.
In this case, the connection is the corner of Maple and Hillary streets, where Bruno's Tavern is located, where Todd worked at Maple Hill restaurant in the early '70s, and where Maxine Rixner's in-laws lived when they would supply mint to Bruno's for its cocktails.
We talk about X-Ray Cleaners and the Applewhites, Amy's Sno-Crème (which was where Fresco is today) and the Betz Funeral Home.
By the time I leave, I feel like I have just found long-lost family members.
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R. Stephanie Bruno can be reached at housewatcher@hotmail.com
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Polling locations 17-10 & 17-12 return to NorthWest Carrollton!
This is a BEAUTIFUL Picture
for the FIRST TIME since Hurricane Katrina
polling locations 17-10 and 17-12 have returned to the neighborhood.
for the FIRST TIME since Hurricane Katrina
polling locations 17-10 and 17-12 have returned to the neighborhood.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thank You Blake Pontchartrain
Hey Blake,
I was wondering if you had any information on the two large lions on pedestals on Pritchard Place at Carrollton Avenue. Can you tell me when they were placed there and why? Who was Pritchard anyway?
Jenel
Blake responded in the May 31,2011 Gambit... exerpted below.
"Dear Jenel,
The Pritchard Place subdivision was developed in 1913 and was so named because it was an extension of Pritchard Street, which already existed. Pritchard Street was named for R.O. Pritchard, a businessman who developed the luxurious Verandah Hotel in 1838 on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Common Street. The hotel cost $300,000 to build; it was destroyed by fire in 1855.
A large ad in the newspaper in 1913 advertised the Pritchard Place neighborhood and showed a picture of the lions that would be placed at the front entrance to guard it. The Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company was contracted to carve the lions from Bedford stone.
Residential development had taken off in the Carrollton area, and the developers of Pritchard Place, the Hopkins-Rhodes Company, described it as an "ideal location for your home within easy access to the best car line in the city and only fifteen minutes from Canal Street."
About 15 years later the lions of Pritchard Place were famous, at least locally. Folks who had cars loved a Sunday drive, and the newspaper ran an article suggesting places to go on drives around the city. The lions were on the list. They were in the paper again in 1930, but this time they were portrayed as "extreme traffic menaces." The article pointed out that when the lions were placed on their pedestals, there were so few automobiles that no thought was given to a potential traffic problem. However, drivers emerging from Pritchard Place in 1930 were at risk when they tried to turn onto Carrollton Avenue because the giant lions blocked the view of oncoming traffic. Accidents had occurred, with one near fatality.
In 1999, a car crashed into one of the lions and knocked it onto the sidewalk. After much "roaring" from the folks in the neighborhood, then-state Rep. Alex Heaton and Sheriff Charles Foti restored the lion to its pedestal."
I was wondering if you had any information on the two large lions on pedestals on Pritchard Place at Carrollton Avenue. Can you tell me when they were placed there and why? Who was Pritchard anyway?
Jenel
Blake responded in the May 31,2011 Gambit... exerpted below.
"Dear Jenel,
The Pritchard Place subdivision was developed in 1913 and was so named because it was an extension of Pritchard Street, which already existed. Pritchard Street was named for R.O. Pritchard, a businessman who developed the luxurious Verandah Hotel in 1838 on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Common Street. The hotel cost $300,000 to build; it was destroyed by fire in 1855.
A large ad in the newspaper in 1913 advertised the Pritchard Place neighborhood and showed a picture of the lions that would be placed at the front entrance to guard it. The Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company was contracted to carve the lions from Bedford stone.
Residential development had taken off in the Carrollton area, and the developers of Pritchard Place, the Hopkins-Rhodes Company, described it as an "ideal location for your home within easy access to the best car line in the city and only fifteen minutes from Canal Street."
About 15 years later the lions of Pritchard Place were famous, at least locally. Folks who had cars loved a Sunday drive, and the newspaper ran an article suggesting places to go on drives around the city. The lions were on the list. They were in the paper again in 1930, but this time they were portrayed as "extreme traffic menaces." The article pointed out that when the lions were placed on their pedestals, there were so few automobiles that no thought was given to a potential traffic problem. However, drivers emerging from Pritchard Place in 1930 were at risk when they tried to turn onto Carrollton Avenue because the giant lions blocked the view of oncoming traffic. Accidents had occurred, with one near fatality.
In 1999, a car crashed into one of the lions and knocked it onto the sidewalk. After much "roaring" from the folks in the neighborhood, then-state Rep. Alex Heaton and Sheriff Charles Foti restored the lion to its pedestal."
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
% who know name of neighborhood organization
From : http://www.lsu.edu/fweil/KatrinaMaps/index.htm
Click here for some other interesing maps fro Rick Weil @ LSU.
Monday, August 30, 2010
2010 Animated Population Recovery Map - GCR
Article in New York Time showing animated New Orleans repopulation map by GCR & Associates.
"While New Orleans has not fully recovered from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, a local research group, GCR & Associates, estimates that up to 80 percent of the city’s population before the storm has returned. The group analyzed utility, sanitation, mail and voter activity statistics to track the number of people resettling in the city. Click below or on the map to get more details on resettlement patterns in New Orleans or one of four key neighborhoods."
Too bad you can't zoom in to other neighborhoods.
"While New Orleans has not fully recovered from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, a local research group, GCR & Associates, estimates that up to 80 percent of the city’s population before the storm has returned. The group analyzed utility, sanitation, mail and voter activity statistics to track the number of people resettling in the city. Click below or on the map to get more details on resettlement patterns in New Orleans or one of four key neighborhoods."
Too bad you can't zoom in to other neighborhoods.
Friday, July 2, 2010
July 2010 Recovery Data
See this Article from the Times Picayune: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/new_orleans_post-katrina_popul.html
NorthWest Carrollton is probably closer to 80% recovered than 89%.
We still have a significant number of houses that are:
- under repair or
- boarded and not being worked on or
- empty lots.
The empty lots are from:
- houses that have been torn down, many against the opposition of the neighborhood, some because they were allowed to decay beyond all hope of repair before something was done or
- the February 2007 Tornado or
- the Post Katrina fire that took out almost the entire block Carrollton-Fig-Dublin-Pritchard Place.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
4 Corner Neighborhood Websites
The "4 Corner" Neighborhoods that touch Carrollton and Claiborne are:
NorthWest Carrollton
FontaineBleau
Central Carrollton
Palmer Park
Click on the links above to take a look at the websites.
Carrollton Riverbend also has some interesting facts about historic Carrollton on their website.
NorthWest Carrollton
FontaineBleau
Central Carrollton
Palmer Park
Click on the links above to take a look at the websites.
Carrollton Riverbend also has some interesting facts about historic Carrollton on their website.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
We can do it!
And we, NorthWest Carrollton, will continue to make our neighborhood a better place to live... whether it's fighting blight or planting trees or getting S&W repairs highlighted or....simply smiling and waving to our neighbors
See Article on Inspiration for Poster.
5 years ago we were inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to reach out to the neighbors we were so very glad had returned. As we move into the 6th year PostK let's not forget the good that came out our our experiences.
See Article on Inspiration for Poster.
5 years ago we were inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to reach out to the neighbors we were so very glad had returned. As we move into the 6th year PostK let's not forget the good that came out our our experiences.
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