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

by 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496804511
• ISBN13: 9781496804518
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 9.9"