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New Orleans State of Mind (1940)
According to various reports, New Orleans architecture was a big hit in New York during the spring of 1940.Bourbon Street's Old Absinthe House Bar (shown above) was reproduced at the World's Fair in...
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NEW! Rock & Galloway Finding Aid
The Southeastern Architectural Archive has finalized the processing of the Rock & Galloway Office Records.The collection includes correspondence, drawings, photographs, presentation boards, models...
View ArticlePaving Chinatown
The Association of Commerce News Bulletin is a good source for construction announcements dating from 1919-1972. Issues regularly feature a "New Orleans Is Growing" column that itemizes business...
View ArticleAutomobile Reefs
In May 1960, the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce News Bulletin reported that its Board was backing an artificial snapper reef plan developed by the West Bank Council:"The Sports Committee of the West...
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Draining the East
Fifty-five years ago, a group of New Orleans business leaders assembled at the Roosevelt Hotel to celebrate the preliminary draining of the former St. Maxent [AKA Michoud] Tract. Mrs. Joseph Boston...
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Original Rhinestone Cowboy
The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin is undertaking a year-long conservation effort pertaining to a historic Mississippi bungalow. Curator Karen Patterson is soliciting assistance in the...
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OST Hot Spots
Since I attended the Old Spanish Trail Centennial Celebration in Mobile, Alabama last week, I've been thinking about how the Good Roads Movement affected commercial architecture. Tracking down relevant...
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New Orleans Business Archive: Friede & Goldman
The New Orleans firm of Friede and Goldman, Ltd. was established by Jerome L. Goldman (1924-2013, shown left above) and Commander Vladimir M. Von Der Friede in 1949. Friede (1895-1966) had been a...
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New Orleans As Divine Feminine
In 1915, New Orleans bungalow architect Morgan Dudley E. Hite (1882-1959) developed a map titled "New Orleans --Center of the World" (shown above). Mayor Martin Behrman's administration liked the map...
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Merry Travels/Holidays!
In 1939, Laura Mae Gumb of Hope, North Dakota took a long rail journey with her best friend Alice Curtis. They wanted to visit the New York World's Fair and see Washington, D.C. In the process, they...
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NYPL - NEW Digital Resource
The New York Public Library [NYPL] has announced the launch of 180,000 high resolution public domain images through its Digital Collections. The site includes thousands of images of the Gulf South,...
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Displacement
This week is my last at Tulane University Libraries' Southeastern Architectural Archive. I have taken a position as head of the Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections at...
View ArticleNOLA in Kansas
Listening to WWOZ this weekend, I heard Truckstop Honeymoon's "Mardi Gras in Kansas" for the first time. The duo left Ninth Ward New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and settled in Lawrence, Kansas....
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"Everybody Plays Today" 1915
In February 1915, Westfield, New Jersey Methodist Episcopal pastor G. Franklin Ream received a postcard from "F.B.H." The latter remarked that "Mardi Gras" was great, but mentioned that he had...
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NYPL - NEW Digital Resource
Brian Foo with the New York Public Library has developed a great interface for digital content gleaned from NYPL and University of South Carolina resources. With guidance from the Schomburg Center for...
View ArticleMessage in a Building (2016)
A mason replacing damaged limestone on Kansas State University's East Memorial Stadium (1922-28) recently discovered a note written by his predecessors in 1928. Lamenting the plight of the working man,...
View ArticleDIY Architecture (1885)
In 1885, The Weekly Kansas Chief reported on the availability of plans and specification forms that could be easily adapted for frame or masonry construction. Bridgeport, Connecticut architects...
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Builded by the People (1906)
In 1906, Graham County, Kansas reported on its progress. The Reveille Souvenir (Hill City) promoted the western county's alfalfa and hay production, and its 2200 quarter sections of land available for...
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Moulins à Vents
Since moving to Kansas, I've become fascinated with historic windmills. They still populate the landscape, some remarkably intact and others denuded of every moving part. T. Lindsay Baker's American...
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Architect Otho McCrackin
Hutchinson, Kansas architect Otho McCrackin (1893-1962) attended Washington University before serving as a pilot in the balloon division during the First World War. His drawing skills were utilized in...
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