Sunday, September 17, 2006

New Orleans Architecture: surviving masterpieces


This Queen Anne's style Garden District house is a prime example of one of many pristine properties relatively unscathed by Katrina. Note that although "Queen Anne's" is a misnomer to describe the eclectic, picturesque, free classic style popular here and elsewhere (like San Francisco) in the late 19th century. What are some of the features you notice about this house? Have you seen anything like it anywhere else in or around Europe?

9 comments:

fée rari said...

this house remind me a film: Amytiville. in fact it's exactly the same than in the movie. it's a horror film so this house seems to be filled with ghosts BOUUUUUUUUUUU

Anonymous said...

Masterpieces is a really good word to describe that architecture.

Anonymous said...

Julie/LEA Anglais-Italien/10am

(Old Victorian style...). It's like a strange house which resists everything, the worst things like hurricanes!

Liz said...

...resists everything, even the worst hurricanes...

alexa said...

this house doesn'lok american at all , that's cool to have so many styles in one city

Anonymous said...

I really like New Orleans. It's quite old and it looks very lively. I think that it could be extremely interesting to visit such a town. it looks like old colonial houses and it makes me think of slavey at the first time but also to the type of houses we usually find in horror films.

Anonymous said...

So smart to live in such a house !!
Great to see some houses like that, nice work and it's unusual...
la classe !

Anonymous said...

This type of house reminds me of the ghost house in Dysneyland!!!It is rather creepy and threatning!!

Liz said...

Anybody want to write a story about this house?