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Quarterly 1994 47 Summer.Pdf THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS ·~· COLLECTION QUARTERLY nderstanding the spirit colors of each building and a map of the of a place is no easy Royal Street complex. The guide includes matter. How the photographs of architectural elements Collection is perceived and several interiors by Richard Sexton, comes in part from whose work illustrated New Orleans: combined images of Elegance and Decadence. The 24-page fine old buildings, publication, with soft cover and color courtyards, flagstones, illustrations throughout, was designed by carriageways, galleries, and the alluring Michael Ledet. Texts by Louise Hoffman presence of history - things tangible and describe each building. intangible. Front and back covers and the title The Buildings of the Historic New page introduce the theme of walls by Orleans Collection presents some of the using the creamy white bricks of the tangibles in a kind of self-portrait. The Louis Adam carriageway as a design ele­ pictorial guide to the nine structures that ment. The frontispiece, a photograph of house the Collection was published in the Royal Street carriageway, extends an May. Illustrations depict the Merieult invitation to turn the pages of the guide House, Counting House, Maisonette, and to discover each building as it leads Townhouse, Williams Residence, Louis the way to another, and yet another. The Adam House, and Creole Cottage, all walls, exterior and interior, depicted both located on Royal and Toulouse streets; the in photograph and drawing, suggest a new Research Center on Chartres Street; long history. The Buildings of the Historic and the Gallier Warehouse on New Orleans Collection - the bricks and T choupi toulas Street. mortar, stucco, wood, and stone - is an Artist Jim Blanchard, known for his introduction to what may be called the architectural drawings, provided water- spirit of place. "The Merieult House on Royal Street, solidly anchored Cover, carriageway ofthe by its granite pillars, serves as the entrance to the Merieult House by Richard Sexton; above, the Collections buildings on Toulouse Street: (from left) intricate web ofbuiklings and courtyards that Townhouse, Williams Residence, Louis Adam House, and Creole make up the Historic New Orleans Collection. Cottage, watercolor by Jim Blanchard (1993.38.2); right, The Buildings of The house dates from the eighteenth century and the Historic New Orleans Collection was published in May. occupies land that has been in continuous use since the early days ofthe colony in the 1720s." - from The Buiklings ofthe Historic New Orleans Collection 2 3 Left, techniques far polishing silver are included in Preservation Guide 7: Silver; right, the Collection's guide to the Laussat Papers received SILVER an award from the Southeastern Library Association. GUIDE PUBLISHED AWARD WINNER The silver guide - Preservation Guide 7: The Collection received word in the The most recent publications, The Silver - is the latest publication in the spring that A Guide to the Papers ofPierre Buildings of the Historic New Orleans Collection's preservation series. Maureen Clement Laussat, published in 1993, won Collection and Preservation Guide 7: Silver, Donnelly, curator of the Williams an award of excellence in the Southern together with A Guide to the Papers ofPierre Residence, has written an informative Books Competition of the Southeastern Clement Laussat, are part of an on-going text about the "queen of metals." The Library Association. Besides publishing a publications program. The importance of rich black-and-white photographs by brochure listing the winners, the associa­ books - to inform, to inspire, for enjoy­ Jan White Brantley capture the refine­ tion will add Laussat to the permanent ment - was aptly summed up by Richard ment of the metal in such pieces as a collection of the King Library of the Marek, speaker at the winter meeting of the two-handled cup, 1763; a centerpiece University of Kentucky. Another copy Publishers Association of the South: bowl, ca. 1800; and a table ornament, will be part of a traveling exhibit that is "Books are our most miraculous artifacts with ostrich and cupid, ca. 1890. circulated until next year's winners are because they more directly express art and Subjects addressed in the guide are announced. ideas than any other medium." contaminants, handling, cleaning and The book was edited by Jon Kukla The books are available at the polishing ("Because even the finest polish and designed by Michael Ledet. The Shop at the Collection. (See page 15 is abrasive, each cleaning removes a layer Collection has received two previous for more details.) of this very soft metal and results in loss awards in the Southern Books of surface detail"), storage, and environ­ Competition for Bound to Please: Selected ment. Warnings, detailed instructions for Rare Books About Louisiana from the tarnish removal, and practical advice are Historic New Orleans Collection (1982) offered up in this guide for readers who and Southern Travels: journal ofJohn H B. own and appreciate fine silver. Latrobe, 1834(1986). 4 From The DIRECTOR ike fossil-bear­ Ling rock, lan­ guage is embedded with patterns from earlier times. The word development, for example, carries into our age a meaning that was already old when LaSalle disvelopped the Bourbon colors of Louis XIV to lay claim to Louisiana. "Disvelopping," John Guillim advised in the 1660 edition of A Display of Heraldrie, "is the proper term for spread­ ing or displaying of the Martial Ensign." This summer and autumn, friends and visitors will examine the historic development of New Orleans from several perspectives - each reflecting ancient Past and present chairs ofthe Williams Prizes Committee, Florence Jumonville and Jon Kukla nuances embedded in the word. Our summer exhibition, From Bank to Shore, traces the city's growth from 1800 to AN EYE ON TuE PRIZE 1960, first along the high ground up­ river and downriver from the Vieux LORENCE JUMONVILLE, chairman of prevented him from attending the dinner. Carre. Then, like a pennant attached to Fthe Williams Prizes Committee for Usually all goes smoothly. But at last the Mississippi, the city unfurled itself­ the past 12 years, says that the prizes - year's banquet Ann Patton Malone was disvelopped itself - to the shores of one for best publication, one for best surprised to hear her name announced - Lake Pontchartrain. unpublished manuscript - have come of the letter informing her of the prize had In mid-September the Collection age. The highly esteemed awards, initiated gone astray. looks at another kind of development as in 1974, have been around long enough to Her favorite winners? Miss we welcome The Grand American allow several repeat winners: Ed Haas, Jumonville mentions Confederate Neckties Avenue, 1850-1920 from the Octagon Michael Kurtz, and Terry Jones. With · by Lawrence Estaville, Parnassus on the Museum to its first stop on a national the announcement of the 1993 winning Mississippi by Thomas Cutrer, and Earl K tour. The elegant mansions, churches, publication, Righteous Lives, this past Long: The Saga ofUnck Earl and Louisiana and schools of St. Charles Avenue March, Florence Jumonville stepped down Politics by Michael Kurtz and Morgan (and its counterparts in Chicago, Cleve­ as the committee's chair and handed over Peoples. Some authors have submitted land, Los Angeles, New York, and her duties to Dr. Jon Kukla, director of the several entries over the years and finally Washington, D.C.) reached a pinnacle of Historic New Orleans Collection. won. "That has always pleased me - Gilded Age urban development. Thinking back over her tenure, she someone eventually taking a prize home." Prairie and Euclid avenues are now notes several trends. There has been an - Louise C Hoffman virtually gone. Wilshire Boulevard, Fifth increase in the number of publications Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue are about Louisiana, she says, and the win­ drastically changed. St. Charles Avenue ning authors - now more spread out Z. endures. Development suggests homoge­ geographically - often choose to write IM LACY ROGERS received the 1993 nized malls and atriums built on the ruins about the 18th and the 20th centuries. KGeneral L. Kemper Williams Prize in of distinctive regional architecture. The prizes, sponsored by the Louisiana History for her book Righteous Historic neighborhoods in New Orleans Collection in conjunction with the Lives: Narratives of the New Orkam Civil are also threatened by this newest connota­ Louisiana Historical Association, are pre­ Rights Movement (New York: New York tion for our ancient word, because our nar­ sented at the banquet of the LHA annual University Press, 1993). The award was row streets and grand avenues abound with meeting. Miss Jumonville recalls the year presented by Florence Jumonville on architectural treasures worth preserving. she received an orchid corsage from the March 18 in New Iberia at the Louisiana -]on Kukla Williams Prize winner whose illness (Continued on page 6) 5 historic complexity of race relations pro­ the activists described "the subjective moted different perceptions of African­ experience of interracial leadership" and American liberation ... , perceptions "the developmental processes that led [that] were rooted in the strength and them to work for a different racial future diversity of the city's black and white than that dictated by Southern tradition." Creole cultures, in its African-Caribbean The activists recalled their victories, as traditions, and in a mythology of 'harmo­ well as their
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