Lost

Lost New Orleans is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside before concerned citizens or the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker''s ball. Organised chronologically, starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved New Orleans insitutions that failed to stand the test of time. Grand buildings erected in the Victorian era that were too costly to be refurbished, or movie theaters that the age of television made redundant are featured. Alongside the city''s iconic and much-missed buildings, Lost New Orleans also looks at the industries that have declined or left town. Sites include:Ursuline Convent Compound; St. Louis Hotel and Exchange; Horticultural Hall; Old French Opera House; New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Old Masonic Temple; Poydras Market; Chess, Checkers, and Whist Club; Charity Hospital; Olivier Plantation House; Washington Artillery Hall; Union Railroad Depot; New Orleans Public Library; Solari''s Delicatessen; Sugar and Rice Exchange; Godchaux''s; Tulane Stadium; Rivergate Exhibition Hall; Lower Ninth Ward; Le Beau House.

About the author

Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane University School of Architecture, is the author of numerous articles and seven critically acclaimed books about New Orleans, including Bourbon Street: A History, Lincoln in New Orleans, Bienville’s Dilemma, and Geographies of New Orleans. The only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella has also received the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the Tulane Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and the Monroe Fellowship from the Tulane's New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. He and his family live in New Orleans.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Campanella, Campanella Richard
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781909815605
• ISBN: 978-1-909815-60-5
• Dimensions: 285 mm x 250 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Lost; Lost; Then and Now
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Photography & photographs, History, TRAVEL / Pictorials, TRAVEL / United States / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, TRAVEL / United States / South / General, Local History, Photographs: collections, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central Southern States, Photography and photographs, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, US South