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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, New Orleans, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags African American Cemeteries NOLA, african american culture, Cemetery Architecture, Cemetery New Orleans, Curator of Shit, folk cemetery, Historic Preservation, Holt Cemetery, memorial headstones, memorials, New Orleans Cemeteries, New Orleans History, NOLA cemeteries, Stonework
Posted by admin on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Federal (Urban), Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Creole Cottage, Curator of Shit, HIstoric Paint, Historic Paint Colors, Historic Wood Houses, House Paint, House Painters, New Orleans Architecture, Paint Colors, Wood Siding
Posted by admin on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Façadism is actually a phenomena in historic preservation that involves demolition of the entire “historic building” with the preservation of the facade, in front of a new building, as a means of mitigating the loss of the building and the continuity of a historic area and/or neighborhood. The photos in this post are actually just [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Buildings, New Orleans, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Facade Preservation, Facadism, New House Types, New Houses, New Orleans New Construction, Prefabricated Homes
Posted by admin on August 9, 2011 · 1 Comment
African American Headstone, Holt Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
This hand carved headstone represents “Jos. Burbridge, Died June 10 1932, Age 52” and “D. Coleman, Died Apr. 14, 1923.” Prior to his death in 1932, Joseph Burbridge (1876/77-1932) lived in New Orleans at 2628 Louisiana Avenue Parkway. Burbridge’s was a full house with his wife Ophelia: their [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, History, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, New Orleans, Public Architecture, Style Section..., Vernacular · Tags African American Cemetery, African American Graves, African American History, Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, Holt Cemetery, Homemade Graves, Homemade Headstones, New Orleans Cemeteries, Social History
Posted by admin on July 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Smallest of the Smallest in Shotgun Houses, New Orleans
Tiny Shotgun Dwelling (Office), 1100 Block of Louisa Street,
St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Smallest of the Small in Context…
This shotgun is truly among the smallest buildings we’ve seen. Perhaps originally built as an office, the building appears to have been converted to a residence at some sad, but [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Folk Culture, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, New Orleans Architecture, Old Buildings, Shotgun Architecture, Shotgun House, Small Buildings, Smallest Building
Posted by admin on July 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A Creole Property of Great Value in Faubourg Tremé
1200 Block of N. Roman St. at Governor Nicholls. Corner Store and Creole Cottage.
1200 Block of N. Roman St. at Governor Nicholls. Corner Store and Creole Cottage. Not far from the rude interruption of I-10, in the Faubourg Tremé of New Orleans, a combination of neglect and [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, French Colonial, Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture, Spanish Colonial (1880-1940ish), Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Creole Architecture, Creole Cottage, Curator of Shit, Green Buildings, Historic Preservation, New Orleans Architecture, True Green
Posted by admin on July 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Omnia Ab Uno: Nicolas Cage’s Tomb Is Not Dumb, You Are!
Nicolas Cage’s Tomb, St. Louis Cemetery, Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
So after only reading ten different rants regarding Nicolas Cage’s bazaar tomb???, we realized that our bloggers and social commentators on celebrities are far dumber than the somewhat defamed actor.
The following quotes prove their idiocy, along [...]
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Category Architectural History, Art (all inclusive), Built Environment, Cultural Landscapes, Eygptian Revival, Gothic Revival (1820-1880), Historic Preservation, History, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Memorial Architectural and Art, misery maven, New Orleans, Oldie But Goodie, Public Architecture, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags Curator of Shit, Egyptian Revival Architecture, Historic Preservation, New Orleans Architecture, New Orleans Cemeteries, Nicolas Cage Grave, Nicolas Cage Grave Pyramid, Nicolas Cage Tomb
Posted by admin on July 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Tiniest Two-Story House In America…New Orleans…
1700 Block of Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
Probably an enlarged shotgun or perhaps an outbuilding, even a servants’ quarters of the nearby corner house? We don’t know, but we do know that it is perhaps the tiniest two story house in America.
Because of the siding, dating the building [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Curator of Shit, Historic Preservation, New Orleans Architecture, New Orleans Vernacular Architecture, Shotgun House, Small House, Tiniest House, Treme Architecture
Posted by admin on July 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
New Orleans’ Creole Style Parking Garage Beats Vacant Lots…
Creole Cottage is a Parking Lot, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
While we always hate to see the interior of anything gutted for modern development or something insensitive and/or inferior to the original, this sort of renovation with preservation of the exterior is optimal to a vacant lot. [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Commercial Architecture, Creole Cottage, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Louisiana, Most Recent, New Orleans, Residential Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Architectural History, Creole Cottage, Creole Cottage Parking Lot, Curator of Shit, French Quarter Parking, Historic Preservation
Posted by admin on July 10, 2011 · 1 Comment
WWII Poster Or Is Jesus Behind Gay Marriage?
New Orleans Procurement, Religious War-related/Service-related Poster, $40, Antique Mall, Magazine Street…
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Category Absurd Mansard, Art (all inclusive), Location Location Location, Most Recent, New Orleans, Procurement · Tags Architectural History, Church and Gay Marriage, Curator of Shit, Gay Marriage, Gays with Jesus, Historic Preservation, WWII Poster
