This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
Although it is unclear when this cheval-de-frise was installed, it is still quite shocking to see while walking around the French Quarter. There is a tradition in New Orleans to line residential fences and walls with some kind of barricade (likeā¦
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
These were the slave quarters for the Beauregard-Heyes House. The focus of the tour was not on LeCarpenier, and little to nothing was mentioned of slavery at all.
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
The Beauregard-Keyes House was built in 1826, for the New Orleans slave auctioneer, Joseph LeCarpentier, who lived here until 1835. He was responsible for the infamous Haydel slave auction, on March 24, 1840, in which 62 slaves from Habitationā¦
This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.
The elevated land is one way of providing protection from the tsunamis. The streets will remain the same level which will act as drainage zones for possible flooding.