Annual Events • June: Carrollton Free Street Festival LIVING WITH HISTORY IN ’ NEIGHBORHOODS Neighborhood Associations • Carrollton Preservation Alliance • Fontainebleau Improvement Association nn • Maple Area Residents Inc. rroollllttoo • Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Inc. CCaarr • Upper Carrollton Residents Inc.

erhaps it’s the tree-shaded streets and spa- cious houses that make Carrollton feel nostalgic, or 1719 Bienville granted lands that include perhaps it is the influence of Tulane and Loyola uni- present-day Carrollton 1723 Bienville divides upriver end of his versities, whose many students, faculty and alumni grant into smaller tracts for sale as Pmake the neighborhood feel like a college town. plantations Established as a rural resort community outside 1781 Barthelemy McCarty acquires of New Orleans in McCarty Plantation 1803 Purchase 1833, the neigh- 1814 Carrollton namesake William Carroll borhood still has a and 2500 troops camp at McCarty laid-back feel, and Plantation en route to Battle of some still refer to it New Orleans : T 1816 & Floods through levee crevasses build as the “The 1832 up land with silt Historic Town of 1833 New Orleans and Carrollton Carrollton.” It’s Railroad (later the St. Charles Ave. also one of the Streetcar) chartered; begins operating in 1835 most ethnically 1833 Investors buy McCarty Plantation, and economically hire Charles Zimpel to map out diverse parts of streets and lots of Carrollton New Orleans. 1845 Town of Carrollton incorporated Published by 1853 New levee built from Monticello PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER , one of Avenue to Fern Street OF NEW ORLEANS Carrollton’s main 1854 Seat of Jefferson Parish moved to 923 K shopping districts, C NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 I

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T still has the look 1875 New Orleans annexes East Carrollton 504/581-7032 A P

Z and feel of the 1950s, while Maple Street offers T

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Centennial Exhibition in present-day Y small stores, numerous coffee shops and a well- R Audubon Park spurs residential A established independent bookstore in converted M building farther uptown Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Center : O has promoted the preservation, restoration T Victorian houses. Good restaurants in all price

1893 St. Charles Ave. Streetcar electrified; O

H ranges are plentiful in Carrollton including Matt line extended from Riverbend to and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic P present-day Willow St. neighborhoods and architecture. and Naddies, which sits across River Road from 1894 City ordinance renames numbered PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS the Mississippi and pleasantly rumbles as trains streets after trees This brochure is made possible by a generous grant INVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE pass along the levee. The only thing Carrollton 1988 Carrollton listed on National from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities IN CARROLLTON WITH ITS COLLEGE TOWN Register of Historic Places CHARM AND RURAL RESORT ORIGINS. lacks, residents say, is a convenient supermarket. Annual Events • June: Carrollton Free Street Festival LIVING WITH HISTORY IN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS Neighborhood Associations • Carrollton Preservation Alliance • Fontainebleau Improvement Association nn • Maple Area Residents Inc. rroollllttoo • Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Inc. CCaarr • Upper Carrollton Residents Inc.

erhaps it’s the tree-shaded streets and spa- cious houses that make Carrollton feel nostalgic, or 1719 Bienville granted lands that include perhaps it is the influence of Tulane and Loyola uni- present-day Carrollton 1723 Bienville divides upriver end of his versities, whose many students, faculty and alumni grant into smaller tracts for sale as Pmake the neighborhood feel like a college town. plantations Established as a rural resort community outside 1781 Barthelemy McCarty acquires of New Orleans in McCarty Plantation 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1833, the neigh- 1814 Carrollton namesake William Carroll borhood still has a and 2500 troops camp at McCarty laid-back feel, and Plantation en route to Battle of some still refer to it New Orleans : T 1816 & Floods through levee crevasses build as the “The 1832 up land with silt Historic Town of 1833 New Orleans and Carrollton Carrollton.” It’s Railroad (later the St. Charles Ave. also one of the Streetcar) chartered; begins operating in 1835 most ethnically 1833 Investors buy McCarty Plantation, and economically hire Charles Zimpel to map out diverse parts of streets and lots of Carrollton New Orleans. 1845 Town of Carrollton incorporated Published by 1853 New levee built from Monticello PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER Oak Street, one of Avenue to Fern Street OF NEW ORLEANS Carrollton’s main 1854 Seat of Jefferson Parish moved to 923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET K shopping districts, C NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 I

Carrollton Ave. R

T still has the look 1875 New Orleans annexes East Carrollton 504/581-7032 A P

Z and feel of the 1950s, while Maple Street offers T

1884-85 World’s Industrial and Cotton www.prcno.org I F

Centennial Exhibition in present-day Y small stores, numerous coffee shops and a well- R Audubon Park spurs residential A established independent bookstore in converted M building farther uptown Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Center : O has promoted the preservation, restoration T Victorian houses. Good restaurants in all price

1893 St. Charles Ave. Streetcar electrified; O

H ranges are plentiful in Carrollton including Matt line extended from Riverbend to and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic P present-day Willow St. neighborhoods and architecture. and Naddies, which sits across River Road from 1894 City ordinance renames numbered PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS the Mississippi and pleasantly rumbles as trains streets after trees This brochure is made possible by a generous grant INVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE pass along the levee. The only thing Carrollton 1988 Carrollton listed on National from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities IN CARROLLTON WITH ITS COLLEGE TOWN Register of Historic Places CHARM AND RURAL RESORT ORIGINS. lacks, residents say, is a convenient supermarket.

n 1833 New Orleans Canal and Banking the annual Carrollton Free Co. purchased half of the McCarty Plantation to WALKING TOURS Street Festival sponsored Carrollton obtain right of way for a planned extension of the by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. . Investors Laurent Millaudon, Numbers indicate We encourage you to use good judgment and Parkway Partners is plan- Senator John Slidell and Samuel Kohn bought the local landmarks common sense in taking these tours. ning a major renovation of Base map provided by Iother half and the square that will City Planning Commission hired planner include construction of an TOUR St. Charles Avenue/Carrollton Avenue Charles Zimpel to (streetcar) As it does with the Garden 1800 square foot shelter create the street District and Uptown, the St. Charles Avenue with facilities. Cross the N e grid. Early settlers A Streetcar offers one of the best overviews of streetcar track to Neron ro n P la concentrated on historic Carrollton. Heading upriver from Lowerline St., Place, part of a comfort- ce the natural levee, note the mix of small businesses and residences typical of able middle class neighbor- around present- the area.The streetcar hood developed in the day Carrollton, turns sharply to follow 1930s.The live oaks here form an arcade that is one Short, Huso, and the bend of the Mississippi River, whose of the prettiest in the city. Fern streets. By levee appears just two A left on Pine St. will bring the 1850s, the blocks away.You’re now you across Claiborne to town had a race- on Carrollton Ave., the Belfast St., then Versailles

track, fine gar- main artery of the old Blvd. with its graceful M

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was largely an enclave of i Sunday breakfasts and v y Charles Avenue—sometimes with an overnight a e w r d late night omelets. Catholic families.Today it’s a stop at Sacred Heart Convent for the Catholic o r more diverse but contin- B Creoles coming Behind it, along Dublin ues to attract families with from the French St., the Riverbend shop- ping area is the succes- children. Quarter and sor to a 19th-century beyond to holiday market in this location.The columned building to your right, in “The Historic now Lusher Elementary School, was built in 1852 to the Town of designs of Henry Howard to house the Jefferson Parish Carrollton.” Courthouse.The Wilkinson-Derby-Zervigon House (c. 1849) The sounds of at 1015 S. Carrollton (to your right) is an unusual example of the river and the a cruciform Tudor Gothic home.The streetcar will take you railroad still color to the terminus of the line and the start of the next tour; life in Carrollton, however, there are stops at both Maple St. and Oak St., though this former where you can alight and sample the neighborhood’s com- resort is now solidly mercial districts close-up. within urban New Palmer Park, Neron Place, Pine St. Orleans. Several TOUR and Versailles Blvd. (walk/bike) neighborhood asso- Palmer Park, at the terminus of the St. Charles ciations work together to fight crime, organize B Avenue Streetcar (Carrollton Ave. at Claiborne local cleanup efforts, and lobby for improvements, Ave.) is a lovely public square with a memorial like the refurbishment of the St. Charles Avenue commemorating both Carrollton’s incorporation and area streetcar terminus. residents who served in World War II. It’s also the site of

n 1833 New Orleans Canal and Banking the annual Carrollton Free Co. purchased half of the McCarty Plantation to WALKING TOURS Street Festival sponsored Carrollton obtain right of way for a planned extension of the by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. New Basin Canal. Investors Laurent Millaudon, Numbers indicate We encourage you to use good judgment and Parkway Partners is plan- Senator John Slidell and Samuel Kohn bought the local landmarks common sense in taking these tours. ning a major renovation of Base map provided by Iother half and the square that will City Planning Commission hired planner include construction of an TOUR St. Charles Avenue/Carrollton Avenue Charles Zimpel to (streetcar) As it does with the Garden 1800 square foot shelter create the street District and Uptown, the St. Charles Avenue with facilities. Cross the N e grid. Early settlers A Streetcar offers one of the best overviews of streetcar track to Neron ro n P la concentrated on historic Carrollton. Heading upriver from Lowerline St., Place, part of a comfort- ce the natural levee, note the mix of small businesses and residences typical of able middle class neighbor- around present- the area.The streetcar hood developed in the day Carrollton, turns sharply to follow 1930s.The live oaks here form an arcade that is one Short, Huso, and the bend of the Mississippi River, whose of the prettiest in the city. Fern streets. By levee appears just two A left on Pine St. will bring the 1850s, the blocks away.You’re now you across Claiborne to town had a race- on Carrollton Ave., the Belfast St., then Versailles

track, fine gar- main artery of the old Blvd. with its graceful M

i dens, a hotel and median and raised s town.To your left, s i

s an elegant train station. New Orleans family lore Mediterranean-style hous- s Camellia Grill is a neigh- i p es. In the 1960s this area p often includes stories of the “long” train ride up St. borhood institution for i

R

was largely an enclave of i Sunday breakfasts and v y Charles Avenue—sometimes with an overnight a e w r d late night omelets. Catholic families.Today it’s a stop at Sacred Heart Convent for the Catholic o r more diverse but contin- B Creoles coming Behind it, along Dublin ues to attract families with from the French St., the Riverbend shop- ping area is the succes- children. Quarter and sor to a 19th-century beyond to holiday market in this location.The columned building to your right, in “The Historic now Lusher Elementary School, was built in 1852 to the Town of designs of Henry Howard to house the Jefferson Parish Carrollton.” Courthouse.The Wilkinson-Derby-Zervigon House (c. 1849) The sounds of at 1015 S. Carrollton (to your right) is an unusual example of the river and the a cruciform Tudor Gothic home.The streetcar will take you railroad still color to the terminus of the line and the start of the next tour; life in Carrollton, however, there are stops at both Maple St. and Oak St., though this former where you can alight and sample the neighborhood’s com- resort is now solidly mercial districts close-up. within urban New Palmer Park, Neron Place, Pine St. Orleans. Several TOUR and Versailles Blvd. (walk/bike) neighborhood asso- Palmer Park, at the terminus of the St. Charles ciations work together to fight crime, organize B Avenue Streetcar (Carrollton Ave. at Claiborne local cleanup efforts, and lobby for improvements, Ave.) is a lovely public square with a memorial like the refurbishment of the St. Charles Avenue commemorating both Carrollton’s incorporation and area streetcar terminus. residents who served in World War II. It’s also the site of Annual Events • June: Carrollton Free Street Festival LIVING WITH HISTORY IN NEW ORLEANS’ NEIGHBORHOODS Neighborhood Associations • Carrollton Preservation Alliance • Fontainebleau Improvement Association nn • Maple Area Residents Inc. rroollllttoo • Uptown Triangle Neighborhood Inc. CCaarr • Upper Carrollton Residents Inc.

erhaps it’s the tree-shaded streets and spa- cious houses that make Carrollton feel nostalgic, or 1719 Bienville granted lands that include perhaps it is the influence of Tulane and Loyola uni- present-day Carrollton 1723 Bienville divides upriver end of his versities, whose many students, faculty and alumni grant into smaller tracts for sale as Pmake the neighborhood feel like a college town. plantations Established as a rural resort community outside 1781 Barthelemy McCarty acquires of New Orleans in McCarty Plantation 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1833, the neigh- 1814 Carrollton namesake William Carroll borhood still has a and 2500 troops camp at McCarty laid-back feel, and Plantation en route to Battle of some still refer to it New Orleans : T 1816 & Floods through levee crevasses build as the “The 1832 up land with silt Historic Town of 1833 New Orleans and Carrollton Carrollton.” It’s Railroad (later the St. Charles Ave. also one of the Streetcar) chartered; begins operating in 1835 most ethnically 1833 Investors buy McCarty Plantation, and economically hire Charles Zimpel to map out diverse parts of streets and lots of Carrollton New Orleans. 1845 Town of Carrollton incorporated Published by 1853 New levee built from Monticello PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER Oak Street, one of Avenue to Fern Street OF NEW ORLEANS Carrollton’s main 1854 Seat of Jefferson Parish moved to 923 TCHOUPITOULAS STREET K shopping districts, C NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130 I

Carrollton Ave. R

T still has the look 1875 New Orleans annexes East Carrollton 504/581-7032 A P

Z and feel of the 1950s, while Maple Street offers T

1884-85 World’s Industrial and Cotton www.prcno.org I F

Centennial Exhibition in present-day Y small stores, numerous coffee shops and a well- R Audubon Park spurs residential A established independent bookstore in converted M building farther uptown Since 1974 the Preservation Resource Center : O has promoted the preservation, restoration T Victorian houses. Good restaurants in all price

1893 St. Charles Ave. Streetcar electrified; O

H ranges are plentiful in Carrollton including Matt line extended from Riverbend to and revitalization of New Orleans’ historic P present-day Willow St. neighborhoods and architecture. and Naddies, which sits across River Road from 1894 City ordinance renames numbered PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS the Mississippi and pleasantly rumbles as trains streets after trees This brochure is made possible by a generous grant INVITES YOU TO EXPLORE THE LOCAL SIDE OF LIFE pass along the levee. The only thing Carrollton 1988 Carrollton listed on National from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities IN CARROLLTON WITH ITS COLLEGE TOWN Register of Historic Places CHARM AND RURAL RESORT ORIGINS. lacks, residents say, is a convenient supermarket.