Walking around Old New Orleans, Louisiana part 1

1820's Federal style Creole Row house with wrought iron balcony

A few weekends ago I was in my favorite city in America, New Orleans! After the loss of my beloved dog Belle and a bad brake up I decided not to go on this trip. My my two friend Shane & Jonathan the most perfect young gentleman in the world drove from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama to pick my butt up so I had to go. I'm so glad I did. Not only because I had the time of my life but with all I was and still going thru this trip was greatly needed.

New Orleans just like Old Europe is a wonderful place to walk around and explore which is great because New Orleans also have the best and richest food in the world. We had a lovely room at the The Royal Sonesta Hotel, a grand hotel in the heart of the French Quarter on Bourbon Street. The Royal Sonesta Hotel New Orleans displays a timeless elegance and refinement reminiscent of its European counterparts. With traditional gabled windows, French doors and wrought-iron lace balconies, the hotel is distinctively European and unmistakably New Orleans.



Enjoy the photo's as you follow in our foot steps exploring the narrow streets of the Quarter, the century's Old Stucco buildings and beautiful intricate cast & wrought iron. My out of state friends wanted to experience New Orleans thru my eyes and now you can see it also.

Old Brulatour Mansion at 520 Royal Street

  French NeoClassical ormolu clock in a shop window  

Royal Street

A Creole cottage

In the Spanish influence most French Quarter walls have broken bottles at the top of walls a early way to keep burglars from from jumping over your wall.

A early 19th century Creole cottage

My best friends house The Musée Rosette Rochon check out his weeb site I did the artwork

http://www.rosetterochon.com/rosette-r2.html

The Musée Rosette Rochon is projected to be a major historic house museum and a vital educational center for the Marigny and adjacent French Quarter, Tremé, and Bywater neighborhoods. It is an early antebellum home built for Rosette Rochon, a free businesswoman of color who amassed wealth and lived to about the age of one hundred. The house also has many remarkable details, being one of the most important early examples in New Orleans of architectural transition between Creole and American styles.

My best friend Don gave me this amazing pair of carved gold leafed wood Alter sticks. They are Portuguese Colonel made in Goa in the early 19th century. They are large at almost 4 feet tall!

Late 18th century Virginia desk possibly Monticello joinery

Late 18th century French bergere covered in silk with down cushion. I'm thinking about getting this chair for my bedroom.

Late 18th century French bergere covered in silk with down cushion. I'm thinking about getting this chair for my bedroom.

Early Creole cottage in Faubourg Marigny

Nice Federal Creole door in Faubourg Marigny

The next set of homes are on Esplanade Ave a street I lived on for 10 years.

Greek Revival

I love the colors on this petit Creole home

A beautiful balcony

The Pontalba Apartment building built 1850 on Jackson Square in New Orleans

While in New Orleans, Latrobe designed the Louisiana State Bank in 1820.

After Latrobe's death from yellow fever in 1820, the bank building was completed by builder Benjamin Fox at a cost of $55000

Creole townhouse circa 1800 built by Barthelemy Lafon for Vincent Rillieux the great grandfather of Edgar Dagas

the Rillieux-Waldhorn House, this is now the home of Waldhorn Antiques (est. 1881). The building was built between 1795 and 1800 for Vincent Rillieux, the great-grandfather of the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. Offices of the (second) Bank of the United States occupied the building from 1820 until 1836 when, thanks to President Andrew Jackson's famous veto, its charter expired. Note the wrought-iron balconies -- an example of excellent Spanish colonial workmanship.

Window shopping on Rue Royal street

1868 Cast-iron building in the French Quarter

1868 Cast-iron building in the French Quarter

Flowers at The Royal Sonesta Hotel

"shotgun double" house

Shane checking things out

I love this balcony

YES!!!

Shane taking a rest, look at the wonderful architecture in this photo it could be in Cuba!

Shane taking a rest, look at the wonderful architecture in this photo it could be in Cuba!

I tried to avoid touristy places like the French Market but the boys found theses cool paper hats there.

I tried to avoid touristy places like the French Market but the boys found theses cool paper hats there.