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The Arsenal, New Orleans Louisiana

The Arsenal, New Orleans Louisiana

On February 25, 1836, S, B. White, Governor of Louisiana, approved an Act of the Legislature entitled:
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR TO PURCHASE ARMS FOR THE USE OF THE STATE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
which among other things enacted:
That the Civil Engineer shall draw a plan and estimate of an Armory, to be built on a lot of ground belonging to the City of New Orleans on the site of the old prison, near the principals and that said building shall be at least two stories high and so constructed as to contain twenty pieces of artillery, and ten thousand stands of arms; and that the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated for that purpose.

Louisiana State Bank Building, New Orleans Louisiana

Louisiana State Bank Building, New Orleans Louisiana

It is on the north corner of Royal and Conti Streets, which was once the financial center of the Old City. The Bank of Louisiana, 1826, was diagonally opposite, while the Banque de la Louisiane, 1804, the first bank established in the Mississippi Valley, was just down Royal Street in the same block. The Louisiana State Bank was Incorporated with a capital of $2,000,000 by an Act of the State legislature in 1818 to endure until December 31^st, 1870. It was the first bank established after its admission to statehood. A careful search of the notarial records reveals that the property on which the bank was erected was acquired by Pierre Cenas; the rear portions from Miss Victoire Griffon, February 21^st,

The Cabildo, New Orleans Louisiana

The Cabildo, New Orleans Louisiana

Originally the City Hall under Spanish Rule, this has been a Museum Since 1911

The present name of this building is derived from the governmental body for which it was built, the Illustrious Cabildo. At the time of its construction, during the Spanish Rule of Louisiana, it was referred to as the Casa Capitular, to house the meetings of the local Spanish government. After the Louisiana Purchase, the building became the City Hall of New Orleans. The Cabildo was constructed between the years 1795 and 1799. According to the minutes of the Cabildo meeting of January 16^th, 1795, an offer to rebuild a structure on the site of the original Casa Capitular and the separate Corps de Garde structure which were destroyed in the fire of 1788 was made

Commercial Building at 104 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

Commercial Building at 104 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

This building housed a variety of commercial tenants over its lifetime, reflecting the vitality of Monroe Avenue as a location for business. A saloon occupied the ground floor from 1901 until 1907, followed by King's Tea Store in 1906-1917. A pawnbroker and a kosher restaurant shared the first floor from 1918 through 1923. From the mid-1920s until the late 1970, when the building was vacated, a restaurant or lunchroom occupied one of the retail spaces, while a clothing store or shoe outlet occupied the other space. The Detroit City Directories did not list the tenants occupying the upper floors, so they cannot be identified. The structure is four stories tall, plus basement. It is rectangular in layout and measures 20 feet

Commercial Building at 100 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

Commercial Building at 100 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

Originally built as the Star Theater in 1907, this building served as the home of the Theatre Royale and the Royal Theater between 1905 and 1922. This was one of first theaters to open in Detroit's Monroe Avenue theater district and enjoyed the benefits of a prominent corner location in one of Detroit's busiest commercial districts. The structure is four stories tall, plus basement. It is rectangular in layout and measures 20 feet wide and 100 feet deep. The most prominent feature on the Monroe elevation is the grouping of large windows that fill the facade at the third and fourth stories and are topped by a segments! arch. In addition to a single stone sill, the windows are outlined by

Commerical Building at 74 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

Commerical Building at 74 Monroe Ave Detroit Michigan

The building was originally virtually identical to the adjoining commercial building at 70-72 Monroe Avenue, with cast iron sills and lintels on both the Monroe Avenue and Farmer Street facades. The building at 74-78 Monroe was, however, set back another four feet from Monroe. In the early 1870s, the building was extended forward about four feet to achieve the same setback as the adjoining buildings This building was the location of a wide variety of businesses, on both the Monroe and Farmer frontages. The Monroe frontage had two tenants, typically a saloon and a restaurant between 1888 and 1918. These apparently occupied the entire ground floor, because Detroit City Directories list no separate businesses on the Farmer side of the building

Live Oak Plantation House Weyanoke Louisiana

Live Oak Plantation House Weyanoke Louisiana

This is a two-story brick stuccoed house with attic; a covered porch at the second floor level across both front and rear. The rear porch may be a later addition. On the ground floor across the front, there are four circular brick stuccoed columns, with five square wood columns at the second floor level; originally there may have been round turned wood columns here. The house is approached by an avenue of magnificent live oaks, running fron east to west from a public road toward a bayou in the rear. On each floor, there are in the center of the front two similar doors with transome, each opening into one of the two large front rooms, as there is no hall.

Guardian Building (Union Trust Building), Detroit Michigan

Guardian Building (Union Trust Building), Detroit Michigan

Built in 1928, it was initially known as the Union Trust Building. It later changed hands and was renamed the Guardian Building. It has 40 stories and is 485 feet tall. Features include an elaborate entrance including stone carvings and colorful tiles, and extensive use of terra cotta tiles on the upper tower of the building. Inside there is Unique extensive use of ornamental metal work used on doors, railings, screens, etc. Elevator doors are metal decorated with orange, blue, and black glass manufactured by Louis C. Tiffany of New York. Interior signs also done by Tiffany. The Gorham Company of Providence, Rhode Island manufactured the metal work used for this building. Between the two World Wars, America was engaged in

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Detroit Michigan

The Immaculate Conception Church is significant for its service as a spiritual center for the area's Polish population. The Church was founded in 1919 to accommodate the overflow from St. Hyacinth, a Catholic Church located nine blocks south on McDougall Avenue. In 1920 the parish school was built. The parish first congregated in a converted grocery store. Construction was completed on the Immaculate Conception Church in 1928, when the parish represented 500 families. At that time, over 100 children attended the parish school. In 1970 the Church had a membership of over 500 parishoners. Immaculate Conception served about 40% of the area's Polish community, and a large Albanian population as well. In 1969 the Detroit Common Council recognized Immaculate Conception's tremendous

The Shadows Plantation Weeks Halls House Mansion, New Iberia Louisiana

The Shadows Plantation Weeks Halls House Mansion, New Iberia Louisiana

No plantation house in the state represents so truly the development of Louisiana's architecture, nor is the fine understanding that exists between these old buildings and their surroundings better seen than in this pink brick house, situated on the banks of the Teche in a grove of oaks, whose shadows give it its name; architecturally, The Shadows is the culmination in the 1830s of many different foreign sources which developed into a distinctive type of house that we associate with the Louisiana country. The plan is the old French arrangement of three rooms across the front with a porch and in the rear two smaller rooms separated by an enclosed porch. The stairs to the house are on the west end

Belle Grove Plantation Mansion, White Castle Louisiana

Belle Grove Plantation Mansion, White Castle Louisiana

This was Among the Largest Houses in pre-Civil War Louisiana

Belle Grove was one of the largest country houses built in Louisiana prior to the Civil War. Built in 1857 by John Andrews, a Virginian who came to Louisiana about 1830, Belle Grove was sold in 1868 for $50,000.00 to Henry Ware, in whose family it remained until the gradual break-up of the plantation after 1910. Its architectural interest centers definitely in its leanings towards Victorian thought that was then finding its way into Louisiana and has left a period that is little appreciated and not at all understood. The Greek Revival had culminated in plantations like Maidwood and Woodlawn in Bayou Lafourohe, some fifty miles away, both American versions of Greek Architecture, but in Belle Grove the stately portico of

Woodlawn Plantation Mansion, Napoleonville Louisiana

Woodlawn Plantation Mansion, Napoleonville Louisiana

This used to be a 1,500 Sugar Cane Plantation in Louisiana

The Greek Revival in Louisiana had two major characteristics, first, the development of the old French raised cottage into a more or less square building with a hipped roof and surrounded on the four sides by columns; then a more ambitious planning, prompted by trained architects who were familiar with the works of Asher Benjamin and Minard Lefever. Woodlawn belongs to the latter group. Here two large wings are added to a familiar type of Louisiana house, forming an unusual ornamental composition, pie colonnade of the main house is the Greek Ionic Order from the Ereehtheion. The simple details of the wings, a direct solution of the problem, are on contrast with the elaborate ornament of the central portion, and give

Bull Dog Electric Products Company Plant, Detroit Michigan

Bull Dog Electric Products Company Plant, Detroit Michigan

Also known as Aluminum Castings Company, Aluminum Manufacturers Inc., Mutual Electric and Machine Company, and the Department of Public Lighting. Bull Dog Electric Products Company occupied this manufacturing complex from 1927 until 1971, and most local residents have no memory of the plant before Bull Dog Electric. These buildings, however, initially developed as an aluminum foundry. The Detroit City Directory for 1910 showed the Aluminum Castings Company, Aluminum, Brass and Bronze Founders, at the site (incorrectly identified as Chene Street), the first clear reference to activity there. The Aluminum Castings Company, incorporated on August 13, 1909, became part of Aluminum Manufacturers, Inc. of Cleveland in November 1919. In the late 1910s, about 2,000 men worked at this plant. Mutual Electric and

Chretien Point Plantation Mansion, Sunset Louisiana

Chretien Point Plantation Mansion, Sunset Louisiana

This was Once a Huge 4,000 Acre Plantation

The original grant was given to Hypolite Chretien in 1776. The plantation originally boasted four thousand acres of land and five hundred slaves with fifty brick outbuildings to house them. The slave houses have disappeared. Chretien Point was begun in the latter part of 1831 on a land grant made by Spanish authorities in 1776 to Louis St. Germain and transferred to Joseph Chretien on December 7^th, 1781. His son, Hypolite, inherited the land and his son, Hypolite II, built the house. The contract for its construction, which is on record in the St. Landry Parish Courthouse, specifies that the house was to be completed within fifteen months at a cost of seven thousand dollars. However, the structure took approximately forty-eight

Oaklawn Plantation Mansion, Natchez Louisiana

Oaklawn Plantation Mansion, Natchez Louisiana

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Detroit Steel Products Company Plant, Detroit Michigan

Detroit Steel Products Company Plant, Detroit Michigan

John G. Rumney organized the Detroit Steel Products Company on September 3, 1904, with the modest capital stock of $50,000. The company started manufacturing railroad and automobile springs with twenty employees in a small plant at 91-99 East Fort in Detroit. It was the first American company to produce uniform, high-quality springs from alloy steel. The demand for the product, Detroit Springs, increased so rapidly that the company was forced to seek larger quarters and bought a parcel on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction industrial district. Detroit Steel Products began to move into its new plant in 1907 and by the end of the following year, it had transferred all operations to the new site. By 1910, the company

Abram W Pike House (Grand Rapids Art Gallery), Grand Rapids Michigan

Abram W Pike House (Grand Rapids Art Gallery), Grand Rapids Michigan

Built in 1845 by Abram W. Pike, who came to Grand Rapids in 1844 after being there since 1858, in the employ of the Port Sheldon Company. This was a group of Philadelphia capitalists who endeavored to establish a metropolis on the shores of Lake Michigan and had erected a group of buildings there, among them being a hotel called The Ottawa House and a depot building for the proposed railroad. The design of the hotel was said to have been taken from the United States Bank at Philadelphia. At the collapse of the company's project, Mr. Pike brought four of the six columns from the Ottawa House to Grand Rapids for the front portico of his house. The four small

Basso Building, Detroit Michigan

Basso Building, Detroit Michigan

Located at the southeast corner of Woodward and Horton, the Basso Building is a rectangular, seven-story structure of classic symmetry and proportions, with extensive Beaux-Arts ornamentation. The two principle facades, along Woodward and Horton, are sheathed in white glazed terra cotta blocks, while the building's shields, medallions, moldings, lettering, and other decorative elements appear in green, gold, blue, and red terra cotta. This is a steel-framed building resting on a reinforced concrete foundation. Both of the two main facades are divided vertically into four bays that are set apart by thick shafts. On the Woodward Avenue side, which measures eighty feet in length, each bay contains four windows that are separated by narrow mullions. The second-story mullions are more narrow than

Commercial Building 62 Monroe, Detroit Michigan

Commercial Building 62 Monroe, Detroit Michigan

The structure is a four-story (plus basement) commercial building constructed in brick masonry in 1852. It measures 20' wide and 100' deep. Originally, the design of the structure was similar to that of 58 Monroe. The cornice was removed in 1958 (City of Detroit Building Permit No. 14361). The rear wall was rebuilt in cinder block in 1957 (City of Detroit Building Permit No. 96735). Hiram R. Johnson (1825-1894). a prominant Detroit businessman, bought the real estate where this building stands in 1852 and erected a series of commercial buildings known as the Johnson Block. The architect is unknown. The building housed a furniture store from 1888 to 1901. William H. Klatt opened a cent-odeon, a precursor to the nickelodeon, in

Commercial Building 58 Monroe, Detroit Michigan

Commercial Building 58 Monroe, Detroit Michigan

The structure is a four-story (plus basement) commercial building constructed in brick masonry in 1852. It measures 20' in width and 100' deep on the first three stories, but only about 75' deep on the fourth story. Its design is similar to the building at 52-54 Monroe. The feneatratlon on the second through fourth stories consists of three rectangular, one-over-one windows per story. Each window has a cast-iron sill and a lintel featuring urn and scroll motifs. The widely-overhanging cornice, its brackets, and cornice ornamentation were removed in 1958 (City of Detroit Building Permit No. 14961). Hiram R. Johnson (1825-1894), a prominent Detroit businessman, bought the real estate where this building stands in 1852 and erected a series of commercial buildings

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