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Queen of the South:New Orleans in the 1850S “FRANCE AND LOUISIANA: UNE JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE” WILLIAMS RESEARCH CENTER SYMPOSIUM: PAGE 7 Volume XVII, Number 4 Fall 1999 F rom November 2 through April 8, 2000, an exhibition about the golden age of New Orleans history will be on view in the Williams Gallery. The new exhibition takes its inspiration from the Collection’s latest publication, Queen of the South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, The Journal of Thomas K. Wharton. Top, Canal Street view of Custom House, detail, by Marie Adrien Persac (1958.78.1.3); above, St. Charles Hotel in Flames, detail, by J. R. P. (1992.156) QUEEN OF THE SOUTH:NEW ORLEANS IN THE 1850S FILM Queen of the South: New Orleans in the QUEEN OF THE SOUTH: 1850s, a documentary film on New Orleans at the height of its prosperity, will EW RLEANS IN THE S air on WYES-TV 12 on Sunday, N O 1850 November 14, 1999, at 7:00 p.m. The film NOVEMBER 2, 1999 - APRIL 8, 2000 will explore life in antebellum New Orleans. The video will also be on sale in Thomas Kelah Wharton was an accom- Visitors to the Queen of the South the Collection Shop. plished architect who served as superinten- exhibition will see the artifacts and images dent of construction for the New Orleans that reflect the complexity of the period, WHARTON TOUR IN THE Custom House on Canal Street at mid-cen- providing an instructive look backward LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT tury until his death in 1862. He lived at before one looks ahead to the year 2000. The Coliseum Square Association, in Coliseum Square in the neighborhood now “New Orleans in the 1850s,” one of the collaboration with the Historic New called the Lower Garden District, walked introductory essays to Wharton’s edited Orleans Collection will present “At to work down Camp Street, and sketched journal, gives an overview of the South’s Home on Coliseum Place,” a tour on and wrote about what he saw. Samuel most prosperous city in the decade ended by Sunday, December 5, featuring Lower Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A., edited THNOC’s the Civil War. Selections from the essay are Garden District houses and churches publication Queen of the South and printed below. dating from the period of architect Thomas K. Wharton. Ticket sales begin wrote a biographical introduction on During the decade that Thomas in Coliseum Square at 10:30 a.m. and Thomas K. Wharton. The following two Wharton kept his journal, the city was will end at 3:30 p.m. An actor portraying excerpts are from his essay: indisputably queen of the South. It was Wharton will meet visitors there and On October 23, 1848, the day work- an age of fortunes made and multiplied, familiarize them with Coliseum Place as men began digging trenches for the huge of doubling population, of civic beautifi- it was in the 1850s. Tours of the building’s foundation Wharton resumed his cation, of dizzying technological buildings Wharton passed every day will duties at the Custom House. On November advances — while the future smilingly run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 1, he was named clerk and draftsman at a promised more good times ahead. Tickets: $15.00; seniors and students: salary of $90 a month. When the corner- International rather than provincial, this $12.00. The Historic New Orleans stone of the building was laid on least southern of southern cities out- Collection publication Queen of the Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1849, shone its urban rivals in the South, chal- South: New Orleans, 1853-1862, The among mementos placed in the stone were lenging New York as the nation’s greatest Journal of Thomas K. Wharton will be on sale in the square. A rain date is documents, medals, coins, newspapers, and port. A sharp-eyed observer walking the scheduled for December 12. Don’t miss a roll of parchment with a long list of names streets of the city in the 1850s found this chance to step back in time to the beginning with President James K. Polk and much to set down in his journal. 1850s to retrace Wharton’s steps through descending through state, city, and local his neighborhood. officials to “T. K. Wharton, draftsman.” Down the river and its tributaries poured uncountable shiploads of cotton, GALLERY TALKS In addition to his position at the sugar, wheat, corn, lumber, lead, liquor, Gallery talks on New Orleans Custom House, Wharton maintained an building materials, and all the other in the 1850s active architectural practice. A good deal commodities of a burgeoning nation. January 5, 12, 18 and March 15, 22, 29 of his work was done for the Episcopal East-west roads were nonexistent or hor- at 12:30 Church, beginning with his design for the rible: it was cheaper and faster to ship original Christ Church. He designed a downriver. At the port of New Orleans, LECTURES SCHEDULED New Orleans As It Was: The 1850s college in Austin, Texas, for his brother-in- goods were loaded onto sailing ships, at 12:30 in the Counting House law Charles Gillette, an Episcopal priest. their deep holds crammed with cargo for January 26: “The Growth of the City,” Other notable architectural projects the markets of the Northeast or Europe. John Magill include the Methodist Steele Chapel, the February 2: “Architecture,” Seamen’s Home, a Baptist church, several The river was the true main street of Henry Krotzer warehouses, a cotton press, and the splen- New Orleans: the city hugged the banks February 9: “Garden District Lifestyle,” did residences of A. W. Bosworth and Paul of the Mississippi’s sweeping crescent, Speaker to be announced Cook. The Cook residence on St. Charles lined with the smokestacks of steam- February 16: “Yellow Fever Epidemics,” Avenue between Joseph and Arabella, boats and the masts of ships, as thick as Patricia Brady completed in December 1861, was his last floating forests. All the important busi- February 23: “Gardens,” Lake Douglas project and his most impressive. nesses, attorneys offices, warehouses, March 1: “African Americans in the — Samuel Wilson, Jr., F.A.I.A. cotton presses, and retail stores were City,” Donald Devore 2 within a few blocks of the river. There cottage without further ado; wedding clustered the factors, brokers, and trips were only for the wealthy. Emily wholesalers, the middlemen for the Wharton’s mother and little sister flood of trade, as well as the bankers moved in with them, a common who provided loans, currency, letters arrangement for extended families. of credit, and all the intricate financial Within a year, the Whartons’ only son apparatus of trade. was born. By today’s standards the home was quite small for so many inhabitants, In the past, people who didn’t but to the family it was snugly filled own horses or carriages had to hire with every comfort and quite a few them from a livery stable or walk. luxuries. Now horse-drawn coaches called omnibuses (picture a stage coach with The nineteenth century was mal- a door at the rear) followed regular odorous. After all, vehicles were horse- routes through the city, and the age of or mule-drawn, regular bathing was the railroad had arrived. Street rail- uncommon, open gutters clogged with roads with passenger cars, pulled first sewage lined the streets, and garbage by mules and then by small steam was frequently left to fester. No wonder engines, reached out to the shores of sweet-smelling plants — sweet olives, Lake Pontchartrain. Wharton grum- jasmine, gardenias, roses — were plant- bled at their popularity: “an intensi- ed at the entrances to homes, not just fied nuisance rather than a conve- for their beauty, but to counteract the Illustration from one of Thomas K. Wharton’s notebooks showing nience, for at the cheap rate of 5 Cents a view from the top of the Custom House. Courtesy, Manuscripts pungent smells of the street. they are overwhelmed with all the ‘Oi and Archives Division, New York Public Library polloi’ of the City and environs.” In The custom on New Year’s Eve, the 1850s railroads also began to run Wharton noted, was “to keep up a con- from New Orleans to Louisiana and marble — had to be shipped in and that tinual firing of guns, pistols and crackers Mississippi cities not accessible by the the city’s soil was very unstable, shifting all night long on the demise of the old river, a great convenience for travelers. and subsiding, causing buildings much year.” The observance of New Year’s Day smaller than this to settle unevenly and itself was much more to his taste. It was The federal government recognized crack. But the challenges were successfully a day of formal calls ruled by fixed con- the importance of New Orleans to the met, and the massive granite structure is ventions, their exactly graded levels of nation’s economy in the usual manner of today a feature of Canal Street. civility worthy of Chinese mandarins. the day — a grandiose building pro- He was immensely proud of his young gram. A branch of the U.S. Mint on When Wharton married in 1851, wife receiving callers at home while he Esplanade Avenue supplied the South’s he brought his wife home to a small bustled about the city calling on hunger for currency, and a new marine acquaintances at homes and hotels, hospital was begun in 1857 to care for exchanging greetings with other men the thousands of sailors who landed at bent on the same errand, and preening the port in the course of a year.
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