French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans's Vieux Carré

by Scott Bernhard and Malcolm Heard

In New Orleans, the French Quarter packs itself into a little grid of a colonial town behind the levee of the Mississippi River. Established in 1718, the town received its gridded plan from a French military engineer in 1721. Most of the buildings standing today date from the nineteenth century, with eighteenth and twentieth century structures interspersed.

This detailed architectural handbook describes how to "read" French Quarter architecture...

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878059881
• ISBN13: 9780878059881
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 10.4"