Lower Pontalba Building
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Lower Pontalba Building
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Lower Pontalba Building photographed at night with the street lights aglow.
The Pontalba Buildings form two sides of Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Built by the Baroness Micaela Pontalba in the late 1840’s, they are matching red-brick, one-block-long, four story tall Parisian-style row houses. The ground floors house shops and restaurants while the upper floors are apartments. They are considered the oldest continuously rented apartments in the United States; although, the row houses were not converted to apartments until the buildings renovation in the 1930 during the Great Depression. The Pontalba Buildings are also noted for being the first recorded instance of iron railings being used in the city.
The building fronting Rue St. Peter is called the Upper Pontalba Building while the building fronting Rue St. Ann is the Lower Pontalba Building.
They were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 for their early and distinctive architecture.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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August 30th, 2018
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