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NEW! TWB Finding Aid
The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently finalized the processing of the Toledano, Wogan and Bernard Office Records. The collection includes certain records of the New Orleans architectural...
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1883 Robinson Atlas
The Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA) and the Tulane University Libraries' Preservation Department recently completed an exciting conservation project. An important New Orleans fire insurance...
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Place Logic
For those undertaking place-based research, the following guides may be beneficial:"Maps & GIS." Architecture Research Guide. Tulane University Libraries. Last updated 11 February 2015."Regional...
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Lost New Orleans
The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently completed the processing of its Toledano and Reusch Office Records. This collection documents the historic Pickwick building, located at the corner of...
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UPhO #9
We are in the process of inventorying a collection of glass plate negatives and came across this one of Leonhard's Casino. We suspect it may have been out at West End, but have been unable to prove it....
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New Year, New Guides
For those of you conducting architecture-related research, we have updated our two Research Guides. Tulane University Libraries employ LibGuides, a content management system developed by the folks at...
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Ben Shahn in the SEAA
In 1949, United States Gypsum Company art director Ione Shriver hired social-realist artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969) to illustrate its promotional journal, Popular Home. The late spring issue was...
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Mapping the Mid-Century CBD
With so much development underway in the Central Business District, it seemed the right time to mention R. Johnston Riker's mid-century map. Referring to the area as the "Coeur d'Or" -- the Golden...
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NEW! Audubon Park Finding Aid
The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently finalized the processing of its Audubon Park Drawings. The collection includes scant architectural renderings – mostly blueprints – and one set of...
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WTC: First Thoughts
Edward D. Stone's early proposal for the International Trade Mart, located at the foot of Canal Street/The Mississippi River (1958). The structure is now known as the World Trade Center, and the city...
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WTC: Concrete's Poster Child
As Edward D. Stone's International Trade Center and Curtis & Davis' Exhibition Center (Rivergate) neared completion, the Portland Cement Association featured the structures in its Fortune magazine...
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KUDOS to the Digital Commonwealth. . .
For digitizing the Norman B. Leventhal Center map collection. The Center, part of the Boston Public Library system, is dedicated to the creative educational use of its cartographic holdings. They have...
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Bungalow Men
As the Southeastern Architectural Archive's Bungalows exhibit enters its closing months, we came across a design for a bungalow real estate office. Represented in entrepreneur Henry L. Wilson's The...
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Brackets
The subject of New Orleans brackets is frequently a hot topic for researchers. Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Preservation Education Foundation, many of the Southeastern Architectural Archive's...
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Street Addresses
We are developing a series of blog posts pertaining to Frequently Asked Questions. In the last post, we addressed finding information about historic New Orleans mill work.With today's post, we want to...
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Hattiesburg Homes
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Aladdin Company -- headquartered in Bay City, Michigan -- maintained regional divisions in the West, Southeast and South central United States. Boasting awards from the...
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Hattiesburg Homes II
The previous post mentioned the Aladdin Company's plant based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1920, Davenport, Iowa's Gordon-Van Tine Company similarly established a southern yellow pine and cypress...
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TBT: 1960's Motel Culture
Cape Coral, Florida will be celebrating its SIXTIETH birthday in 2017. In the spring of 1969, my grandparents stayed at the modernist Nautilus Motel and Garden Apartments.There were other Nautilus...
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New Orleans Business Archive: Lhote Lumber (1847-1910)
In 1904, the Lhote Lumber Company significantly expanded its operations and built a new $500,000 plant in the Second Municipal District along the Old Basin [Carondelet] Canal. Lhote employed over 150...
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BLOG 225K
As of today, the Southeastern Architectural Archive's "Architecture Research" Blog has tallied 1/4 million page views. What was initiated as an attempt to provide a research portal has resulted in...
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