Southern Comfort : The Garden District of New Orleans by S. Frederick Starr (1989, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262192837

ISBN-139780262192835

eBay Product ID (ePID)2056311

Product Key Features

Book TitleSouthern Comfort : the Garden District of New Orleans

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1989

TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), History / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, History

AuthorS. Frederick Starr

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight58.6 Oz

Item Length6.7 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-031899

Reviews"Starr's book is the best yet written on New Orleans or any portion thereof." -Roger G. Kennedy, Director, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal976.3/35

SynopsisThis pioneering study of the opulent Garden District of New Orleans is a fascinating and entertaining account of how immigrant merchants and craftsmen from throughout the United States and abroad combined efforts to create one of America's first and most elegant suburbs, a lavish and enduring symbol of southern comfort in the Victorian era., This pioneering study of the opulent Garden District of New Orleans is a fascinating and entertaining account of how immigrant merchants and craftsmen from throughout the United States and abroad combined efforts to create one of America's first and most elegant suburbs, a lavish and enduring symbol of southern comfort in the Victorian era. Southern Comfortis the first study of New Orleans to relate economic and social movements to the architectural face of the city, unveiling the process by which a predominantly Yankee suburb became a profoundly southern community Using New Orleans' unique notarial archive - a detailed written record of issues relating to real estate and architecture there - Starr skillfully creates an active interchange with the people who built the District. Starr introduces the architects, builders, craftsmen, servants, and retainers and recounts the colorful details of their lives. He provides a highly readable portrait of the intertwined careers of two gifted architects who worked in the Garden District - Henry Howard and Lewis Reynolds - the former among the shrewdest practitioners of the architecture of flattery. And his portrayal of the career and clientage of Thomas Sully presents a series of important discoveries. Southern Comfort shows how Anglo Saxon newcomers to the Crescent City capitalized on the boom of "King Cotton' and the possibilities posed by improved urban transportation to create a semirural village within the teeming Mississippi River metropolis. The text includes evocative photographs by Robert Brantley, as well as documentary illustrations from the rich archives of the Historic New Orleans Collection that are published here for the first time. S. Frederick Starr is President of Oberlin College. From 1982 to 1984 he was Scholar in Residence at The Historic New Orleans Collection, and he is the author of New Orleans Unmasqued. He has also written numerous books in the field of Soviet affairs and on topics ranging from art and architecture to jazz.

LC Classification NumberF379.N56G377 1989