New Orleans Architecture: The Esplanade Ridge - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

An award-winning author of more than a dozen books, Roulhac B. Toledano is a prominent lecturer and an authority on historical architecture. She is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects International Book Award and works as an artist, writer, and preserver of historic American treasures.

Betsy Swanson earned a bachelor of fine arts degree with distinction in art from Newcomb College in 1959 and was awarded the master of fine arts by Tulane University in 1966. She is a coauthor of New Orleans Architecture Volume II: The American Sector (pb) and a photographer for New Orleans Architecture Volume VI: Faubourg Tremè and the Bayou Road (pb). Ms. Swanson lives in Harahan, Louisiana.

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"New Orleans is one of America's richest architectural possessions. . . . These architecture books lay a solid foundation in the field, are a great gift to general historians, and, as the authors hoped, have contributed immeasurably to the maintenance of extant architectural treasures."
-New Republic

This award-winning volume compiled by the Friends of the Cabildo focuses on the architecture along the length of majestic Esplanade Avenue from the Mississippi River to Bayou St. John.
The Esplanade Ridge represents a treasure-trove of nineteenth-century architecture. Included are French-Colonial and Creole homes, American-style frame and brick townhouses, Louisiana plantation buildings, as well as Italianate Victorian, Second Empire, Edwardian, Mission, and City Beautiful styles. More than 350 modern and archival photographs, paintings, and sketches are reproduced along with a large map of Esplanade Avenue.