Pictures of Louisiana

Pictures of Louisiana from Cajun Country to New Orleans


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New Orleans French Quarter


Cabildo: 1799. Erected by Spanish government to house town council. Louisiana Purchase papers signed here in 1803.	St. Louis Cathedral: 1794	Statue of Major General Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square. Hero of Battle of New Orleans and 7th President of the U.S.	Charm Gate blessed by Queen Isabel	Louisiana Supreme Court Building: 1910


Beauregard-Keyes House	Café du Monde for the quintessential café au lait and beignets	French Market 1813	Peppers at the French Market	Donkey and Carriage


Jax Brewery 1891	Tujague's Restaurant 1856	Joan d'Arc	Old U.S. Mint. Only mint to coin both U.S. and Confederate money.	Old Ursuline Convent

Ironwork in the French Quarter


Iron Balcony	Iron Balcony	Corn Stalk Fence	Iron Balcony	Iron Balcony

Mississippi Riverfront


Barges and bridges on the Mississippi	Cajun Queen	Audubon Aquarium of the Americas	Creole Queen paddle boat	Riverfront Streetcar

City Park and New Orleans Museum of Art


Lily in City Park	New Orleans Museum of Art 1911	Henry Moore "Reclining Mother and Child" 1975. Sydney & Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden	"Wedding Cake House" St. Charles Avenue	"Wedding Cake House" St. Charles Avenue

New Orleans St. Louis Cemetery "Cities of the Dead"

Because New Orleans is built below sea level, the dead must be buried in above ground family tombs. When the shelves are full, the bones are taken from the casket and pushed to the back so it can accept the new casket.

Longue Vue House and Gardens

Longue Vue houses the Edith and Edger Sterns collection of American and English antiques and decorative arts. The Classical Revival house is set on 8 acres of formal gardens including the Walled Garden by Ellen Biddle Shipman.


Longue Vue Oak Alley	Longue Vue House front elevation	Longue Vue House back elevation	Gardens	Gardens

Great River Road: Houmas House from the Great Sugar Empire of the 1800's

The name derives from the Houmas Indians, the original owners of this tract of land. Once the largest sugar plantation in American, Houmas House (1805-1829) sits among oaks believed to be up to 500 years old and is surrounded by 12 acres of gardens and ponds (of the original 3000,000). It has been featured in films such as "North and South" by William Russell and "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis.


Symmetrical Hexagonal Garconnieres housed adolescent sons of owners. Unique to LA plantations.	Houmas House	Oaks estimated to be up to 500 years old	Fountain	Ponds

Great River Road: Oak Alley Plantation

Named for the 28 Live Oak Trees planted in 2 rows sometime in the early 1700's. The house was built in 1839 by Jacques Telesphore Roman, a Créole suger planter for his bride.

Laura: A Créole Plantation

Tours are based on 200 years of real stories of owners and slaves of this sugar plantation from French documents and Laura's "Memories of the Old Plantation Home." West-African folktails of Compair Lapin, known in English as "Br'er Rabbit" were recorded in the cabins here.


Burn damaged plantation home is being restored and will be returned to its original bright yellow.	Original brick foundation construction protecting from floods and providing cooling air circulation	Orange trees in formal French parterre	Slave Cabin	Slave Cabin

San Francisco Plantation "La Belle Époque"

A galleried house built in 1856 by Edmond Bozonier Marmillion in the old Creole open suite style with the main living areas up off the ground. The name is said to be derived from French slang "Sans Fruscins" meaning "without a penny in my pocket" probably referencing it's high cost.


San Francisco Plantation House in bright Bavarian colors	Cistern. Water was collected, stored and pumped into the house	Ventilated roof, brackets, Gothic windows, ornate grillwork and Gingerbread trim	1840's Schoolhouse	1830's Slave Cabin

Sugar


Sugar Cane	Single Row Soldier Sugar Cane Harvester	Sugar Cane Syrup Pot (to boil down sugar cane syrup)

Rosedown Plantation and Oakley Plantation

Rosedown was built by Daniel Turnbull, one of the richest men in the nation before the War Between the States, on land purchased between 1820 and 1840. At it's largest, Rosedown Plantation comprised 3,455 acres most of which was planted in cotton. During the peak production years, there would have been as many as 450 slaves for upkeep and agriculture. The house was built by Wendell Wright based on the Carolina Tidewater or extended I-House form. It has a neoclassical columned facade and double front galleries. The French formal gardens were developed about the same time as the home by Martha Turnbull, and grew to 28 acres. She experimented with exotic plants introducing azaleas and camellias to the southeast.


Rosedown Plantation: 1835, St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish.	Rosedown Plantation main house.	Rosedown Plantation Oak Alleé.	Fountain at Rosedown Plantation gardens.	Rosedown Plantation gardens.

Oakley Plantation is a beautifully simple home in a West Indies style with galleries that allow cool breezes and keep out rain and sun. John James Audubon arrived in 1821 to tutor the daughter of the owners. In the 4 months he stayed, he completed or began 32 of his famous Birds of America series.


Rosedown Plantation kitchen	Rosedown Plantation gardens	Oakley Plantation: ca 1806.	Oakley Plantation gardens	Oakley Plantation slave cabins

Cajun Country

Extending over 22 parishes (Louisiana term for counties) north of the Gulf and west of the Mississippi including the Atchafalaya Basin and prairies to the Texas border, the area is called "Acadiana" after the descendants of French colonists who were forced out of Acadia (Nova Scotia) in 1755 when Great Britain took control from France who settled here. The area is known for the Cajun French spoken, highly spiced gumbos, and fiddle and accordion music. St. Martinville was founded in 1756 as a Spanish military outpost, and became a Creole enclave often called "Petit Paris," but is best known for its place in Longfellow's poem "Evangeline," the story of two lovers separated by their eviction from Acadia.


St. Martinville: Church of St. Martin of Tours	St. Martinville Prysbytere	Evangeline oak. Site of the reunion of Evangeline and her lover.

The Tabasco factory in Avery Island, LA, was founded by Edmund McIlhenny to make the famous sauce from capsicum pepper pods shortly after the Civil War. Seeds are started in a greenhouse in January, transplanted in April and hand picked in August when they reach just the right shade of red. Peppers are mashed with Avery Island salt, fermented and aged for three years in white oak barrels. The aged mash is mixed with vinegar, stirred, strained and bottled.