Field Guide
From Creole cottages to Italianate galleries, a guide to the building traditions that define New Orleans—and how to read the city's façades the way an architect does.
New Orleans is a living catalog of American residential architecture. A walk through nearly any neighborhood reveals two centuries of building traditions layered one upon the next.
Stand on any Garden District corner and you will see them side by side: the restrained symmetry of Greek Revival and the exuberant brackets of the Italianate.
The double-gallery house is perhaps the most New Orleans of building types—a raised form with two full galleries that turns the street into a stage.
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