Main entry:

Kingsley, Karen.

Title & Author:

Buildings of Louisiana / Karen Kingsley.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Description:

xx, 524 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Buildings of the United States

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-457) and index.
List of Maps, xi Guide for Users of This Volume, xiii Foreword, xv Acknowledgments, xix Introduction, 3 Native American Settlement, 6; European Exploration and Early Settlement, 9; Ethnic Groups, 15; Building (in) Louisiana, 19; Plantation Culture, 30; After the Civil War, 39; The Twentieth Century, 44; Historic Preservation, 50 New Orleans (Orleans Parish) (OR), 55 Vieux Carre, 59; Creole Faubourgs, 74; Esplanade Avenue to City Park, 84; Canal Street, 91; Central Business District, 98; Garden District and Adjacent Neighborhoods, 111; Uptown and Carrollton, 122; Mid-City, 136; Lakefront, 141; Gentilly and East to the Parish Line, 145; Algiers, 147 Delta Parishes, 150 Jefferson (E), 152; Plaquemines (PL), 163; St. Bernard (SB), 164 Lower River Parishes, 169 St. Charles (CH), East Bank, 173; St. John the Baptist (jo), East Bank, 176; St.James (JM), East Bank, 179; Ascension (AN), East Bank, 183; Iberville (IB), East Bank, 187; East Baton Rouge (EB), 188; West Baton Rouge (wB), 213; Iberville (IB), West Bank, 216; Ascension (AN), West Bank, 220; St. James (JM), West Bank, 226; St. John the Baptist (jo), West Bank, 227; St. Charles (CH), West Bank, 230 Bayou and Gulf Parishes, 232 Lafourche (LF), 234; Terrebonne (TR), 238; Assumption (AM), 241; St. Mary (MY), 244; Iberia (IA), 251; Vermilion (vM), 258 Acadian Parishes, 262 St. Martin (SM), 264; Lafayette (LA), 267; Acadia (AC), 278; Evangeline (Ev), 281; St. Landry (sL), 282 Southwestern Parishes, 289 Cameron (CM), 291; Calcasieu (cc), 292; Beauregard (BE), 301; Allen (AL), 302; Jefferson Davis (JD), 303 Central Parishes, 305 Rapides (RA), 307; Vernon (VE), 318; Sabine (SA), 319; Natchitoches (NA), 321; Grant (GR) , 332 Northwestern Parishes, 333 Caddo (CA), 335; Bossier (BO), 363; Red River (RR), 365; De Soto (DS), 365 North Central Parishes, 368 Webster (wE), 370; Bienville (Bi), 372; Claiborne (CL), 372; Union (UN), 374; Lincoln (LI), 375;Jackson (JA), 380; Winn (wi), 380 Northeastern Parishes, 382 La Salle (LS), 384; Caldwell (CD), 385; Ouachita (ou), 386; Morehouse (MO), 393; West Carroll (wc), 394; Richland (RI), 396; Franklin (FR), 396; Catahoula (CT), 397 Upper River Parishes, 398 East Carroll (EC), 401; Madison (MA), 402; Tensas (TN), 403; Concordia (co), 406; Avoyelles (AV), 408; Pointe Coupee (PC), 412; West Feliciana (wF), 419 Florida Parishes, 430 St. Tammany (ST), 432; Tangipahoa (TA), 437; Livingston (LV), 444; East Feliciana (EF), 444; St. Helena (SH), 449; Washington (WA), 450 Suggested Readings, 453 Glossary, 458 Illustration Credits, 484 Index, 485

Summary:

"Buildings of Louisiana provides a comprehensive guide to Louisiana's built environment. Organized by parish, it begins with New Orleans and moves on to cities, towns, and rural areas in each of eleven regions around the state. It encompasses architecture in the broadest sense, from Native American burial mounds to nineteenth-century plantations to the striking twentieth-century industrial landscape along the lower Mississippi." "Buildings of Louisiana focuses on building forms unique to the state and shows others, such as plantation houses, in unexpected variety: early houses influenced by Creole traditions and later ones that fit the columned Greek Revival image. Rosedown in Saint Francisville and Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia are only two of the many lovely antebellum examples that are included. The book covers not only houses in New Orleans's Garden District, the historic monuments of the French Quarter, and the massive Art Deco capitol in Baton Rouge, but buildings not found in standard tourist guides: Shreveport's mansions, architectural gems in small downtowns, and the state's outstanding examples of modern architecture." "Buildings and sites are described and interpreted in some 900 entries illustrated with approximately 350 photographs and keyed to 45 maps. A substantial introduction relates the architecture of the state to its geography, climate, economy, and uniquely diverse history and mingling of cultures."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195159993
9780195159998

Subject:

Architecture Louisiana Guidebooks.
Architecture Louisiane Guides.
Architecture.
Louisiana Guidebooks.
Louisiane Guides.
Louisiana.

Form/genre:

Guidebook
Guidebooks.
travel guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Buildings of the United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 228514
Call No.: NA730.L8 K55 2003
Status: Available