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Metal Caskets
In 1931, the Fuller Company, charged with site clearance for the new Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, began to uncover human remains. When construction operations were initiated, the...
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Exhibit Highlights Superdome
Tulane University’s Southeastern Architectural Archive has announced a new exhibition:In celebration of Super Bowl XLVII and in anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of the Louisiana Superdome, this...
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Lost New Orleans 1906
We recently came across a cache of invoices dated 1906 that feature various wood engravings of New Orleans structures. Each business is identified by street address.From top to bottom:Woodward Wight...
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The Hiker
If you are taking the new Loyola Streetcar or walking near the Energy Center building at the intersection of Poydras Street and Loyola Avenue, you may notice this monument.It hasn't always occupied its...
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Sanborn's FB
For those of you who frequently use Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases, you know that the map keys changed a lot over the years.We were recently fact-checking the location of a historic photograph and came...
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From Louisiana to Minnesota
This blog has previously addressed the use of sugar cane bagasse fiberboard, celotex, as a building material. The Southeastern Architectural Archive houses a growing collection of materials associated...
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Modern House Moving 1906
In 1906, New Orleans businessman George J. Abry (caricature above) published an article in the locally produced journal, Architectural Art and Its Allies. In it, he addressed the science of house...
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NOLA Victory Gardening
In January and February 1944, New Orleanians were thinking about Victory Gardens. US Department of Agriculture Chairman of the Victory Garden committee, H.W. Hochbaum, led a two-day Victory Garden...
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More Building Letterheads
We located another cache of early twentieth-century letterheads and invoices that features New Orleans building representations. From top to bottom they are:American Paint Works424-434 Josephine...
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Metairie Cemetery Souvenir Map
An early souvenir map that shows the locations of the lagoons along the perimeters of Metairie Cemetery. Dug in 1890, these lagoons benefited from proximity to the New Basin Canal, from which gravity...
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Mid-Century Building Letterheads
By 1950, many companies were modernizing their letterhead designs and doing away with building imagery. Some of those who continued to employ such representations were banks, hotels, funeral parlors,...
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NEW! Weiblen Finding Aid
The Southeastern Architectural Archive recently completed the full processing of the Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company Office Records. The collection consists of project drawings, photographs,...
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Segregation Forms
This blog has previously addressed segregated architecture/urban planning schemes with respect to company-style towns. We recently came across the Great Southern Lumber Company's 1911 plan for...
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Red Lead
The New York Review of Books recently featured Helen Epstein's review of Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner's Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. It reminded us in the...
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More Building Letterheads
Here are a few more letterheads that prominently feature buildings:Crescent City Manufacturing CompanyCorner Montegut and Marais Streets1909New Abita Springs HotelAbita Springs1912Gaiennie Company...
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Barataria and Lafourche Canal 1911
Barataria and Lafourche Canal: Locks on Mississippi River, Opposite New Orleans, LA. New Orleans: 1911. Martin Shepard Office Records, Southeastern Architectural Archive, Special Collections...
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B. Rosenberg and Sons
In the summer of 1915, Nat Rosenberg wrote to New Orleans architect Martin Shepard to inquire about converting his 5216 Magazine Street property from the Dorothea Theatre into a double residence. His...
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Graveley's Arch
In 1930, a Tulane University civil engineering graduate named Eugene Cenas Graveley († Costa Rica 1943) patented a welded steel roof construction method. He founded a company based on the technique and...
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad 1916
In 1916, one could take the train from New Orleans to Pensacola. Solid steel Pullman trains operated daily between New Orleans and New York. The Louisville and Nashville R.R. had its ticket office at...
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New Orleans Silica Brick
In 1915, Harry M. Dyett announced the formation of a new venture that would transform Lake Pontchartrain white sand into brick. He sought testimonials from local architects, including Paul Andry and...
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