Richard Campanella


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How a 1960s reconstruction blends into the French Quarter’s most Spanish Colonial streetscape

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What led to the founding of New Orleans in 1718?

The year 2018 marks the 300th anniversary of the foundation of New Orleans. But like most complex, improvised projects, New Orleans actually came together over many years, and each stage involved various levels of indecision, contingency, discord and serendipity.

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‘Fourteenth-Century Gothic’ on St. Charles Avenue

James Freret’s Soaring, Short-Lived Old Masonic Temple

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Four Acres Lost

Motivating Demolitions of the Early 1900s.

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“Ornaments to the City”

Late Victorian Architecture in New Orleans

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The Louisiana Sugar & Rice Exchange, 1884-1963

Two key commodities had warehouse homes on the riverfront from 1884 to 1963.

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Bywater Before Bywater

The Olivier Plantation House, 1820s-1949

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The Re-importation of Richardsonian Romanesque

The aesthetic of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, a native Louisianan, had world-wide impact, including in New Orleans.

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A “French Chateau Style of Architecture”

Thomas Sully’s Long-Forgotten Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Building

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Before Foodies, There Was Solari’s

A history of New Orleans’ first gourmet grocery.

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“The Aesthetic of Luxury:” Italianate Architecture in New Orleans

A look at Italianate architecture in New Orleans.

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The New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 1871-1964

A look back on the buildings where cotton reigned king in New Orleans’ downtown “Cotton District.”