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New Orleans’ Historic Neighborhoods New Marigny, Gentilly Terrace & Edgewood Park

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE N EIGHBORHOOD E VENTS FA L L Gentilly Fest (in nearby Pontchartrain Park) What’s going down All Saints Day family tomb cleaning and blessing at St. Roch Cemetery around here?

YEA R R OUN D St. Claude Second Saturday Art Walk GO DEEPER

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The New Marigny is one of the city’s best residents and business owners packing. The The founding of Gentilly Terrace as a Katrina comeback stories. An area that neighborhood su ered from disinvestment. European settlement happened soon after su ered decline through the late 20th century, Local residents began organizing in the mid- the establishment of the Vieux Carré, or St. Roch, as it is also known, has 1990s to ght the neighborhood’s ills, however, , in 1718. French colonists attracted inspired religious and civic leaders with measurable success. Mathurin and Pierre Dreux selected the in the wake of the devastating storm in 2005. natural levee along Bayou Sauvage as the site The neighborhood has reawakened and is The neighborhood was established as a of their plantation in 1727, which they named repopulating at an impressive clip thanks National Register Historic District in 1994, “Gentilly” after the commune from which to several new developments and thriving and the Faubourg St. Roch Improvement they came. Gentilly was essentially rural, with surrounding historic districts. Association was founded in 1995. Post- a small village located three miles from the Katrina, the revitalization of the historic Vieux Carré, through the 19th century. Part of early settler ’s landholdings in the early 19th century, the Three developers took interest in the area area was rst plotted as a neighborhood at the beginning of the 20th century and in 1810, named after its owner and largely advertised their new neighborhood as a place developed between the 1830s and 1880s by “where homes are built on hills” in 1909. “Hills” French Creoles, German immigrants and Free is an exaggeration, though Gentilly does sit People of Color. Several musicians either grew on some of the highest land (four to ve feet up in the neighborhood or lived here as adults, above sea level) in metro New Orleans and including Sidney Bechet, Manny Perez, Danny many of its lawns, do, in fact, sit atop man- Barker and Paul Barbarin. Ferdinand LaMothe, made hills. Today, the neighborhood contains better known as , used to the largest collection of California Craftsman- sneak away from his Creole grandmother’s style bungalows (built around 1910-1926) in home just o to play the state, as well as English cottages and piano in Storyville, which was, for two St. Roch Market and blighted homes in the Spanish and Mediterranean Revival raised founded in 1935. Gentilly Terrace was decades around the turn of the 20th century, neighborhood, coupled with continued houses from the period of 1910-1940. Twenty- established as a National Register Historic New Orleans’ legal red light district. leadership from local residents and concerned foot setbacks on all lots and the presence of District in 1999. leaders, has seen this neighborhood turn a venerable oaks on major boulevards create a Convenient to both the Central Business corner. Art galleries and new restaurants are park-like setting. This neighborhood was one of the hardest District and the Vieux Carré, with a stock thriving on St. Claude Avenue. Residents enjoy hit in the whole city after , of charming historic homes and grand such diverse amenities as the at-times-surreal The establishment of with the levee failures sending over seven feet boulevards along both Elysian Fields and Saturn Bar and the Circle Food Store, an in 1930 and improvements in drainage of water into the area. For those residents St. Roch avenues, the New Marigny has independent and locally owned grocery that technology further spurred development, who did move back and rebuild, the process all the makings of a desirable was an integral part of life in the neighborhood and as early as 1900, streetcar lines that took years; many did not return. Many of neighborhood. Suburban ight hit this for decades pre-Katrina and reopened several connected the neighborhood with downtown Gentilly Terrace’s original cottages were neighborhood hard in the mid-20th century, years after it ooded in the storm. As real made transportation easy. Residents have unsalvageable, having been ruined by mold and the construction of the I-10 overpass estate prices can attest, the New Marigny is long taken pride and initiative in this and rot. However, those dedicated residents along the then-thriving once again a desirable home for new and old neighborhood; the Gentilly Terrace and with the means to come back have rebuilt the commercial corridor sent countless New Orleanians alike. Gardens Improvement Association was area, thanks in large part to the dedicated EDGEWOOD PARK

Edgewood Park, a neighborhood within the Avenue, and St. James Major Catholic The Edgewood Park Improvement Association larger Gentilly district of New Orleans, is the Church, constructed in 1928. The Craftsman developed the neighborhood in 1909. Its city’s newest addition to the National Register of style is dominant amongst the neighborhood’s modern incarnation, the Edgewood Park Historic Places, having been added in 2014. It was bungalows, shotguns, camelbacks and raised Neighborhood Association, was founded in developed, along with other sections of Gentilly, basement homes, while revival styles such as 2000, and its leadership proved invaluable as a middle-class streetcar suburb in 1909, and Tudor, Mediterranean and Colonial can also be in helping neighbors after Hurricane Katrina is still densely populated by modest cottages found. The former Pierre A. Capdau School, since the levee failure brought water to many with ample setbacks for this urban location. The located at 3821 Franklin Ave., was designed roo ines of one-story homes here. Though triangular neighborhood is bordered on the north by E.A. Christy in 1922 as a landmark for the some buildings were demolished and others by Gentilly Boulevard, on the south by I-610, on neighborhood in the Beaux Arts style. were hastily repaired, the neighborhood still the east by Peoples Avenue, and on the west by has its historic integrity intact. Fairmont Drive.

It was initially developed thanks to a streetcar route along Franklin Avenue that connected Edgewood Park with the downtown. Long a quiet but almost self-contained area, complete with schools, churches, banks, and more, Edgewood Park has many long-time residents. Neighborhood institutions include Bethel Lutheran Church, built in the 1920s on Franklin

neighborhood association, which has organized e orts to keep citizens informed and help beautify the area once more with e orts such as planting trees. Residents also felt con dent settling anew in their neighborhood after the US Corps of Engineers made substantial and lasting improvements to the levee system nearby. Today, Gentilly Terrace has reclaimed its laid-back, almost country feel. Convenient to the Lakefront and the University of New Orleans as well as downtown, it’s attractive to both young families and older people. E P

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L D 1 ST. ROCH MARKET 1875 11 3635 GENTILLY BLVD NEW MARIGNY and turn right, then right again to spy another have plant and fower names.

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12 GENTILLY TERRACE Home of original Gentilly Terrace developer Start at the St. Roch Market (circa 1840) at 4757 Music St. Turn left on Lotus and left again on Lavender E R L O M B A R D S U M P T Built as one of the City’s many open air R.E. Edgar deMontluzin. the intersection of St. Claude and St. Roch to get back to Franklin Avenue. Take a right. 9 markets, this building was in continuous use avenues. It is a rare surviving example of a Get back to Mirabeau Avenue, turn right and Driving towards Gentilly Boulevard, pass the 8 until Hurricane Katrina. It sat empty for years public, covered market that was once found in walk two blocks, then turn right on Venus Beaux Arts style Pierre A. Capdau School at D L O M B A R 16 13 until revitalization brought it back in 2014. BIHLI HOUSE 1912 every neighborhood of New Orleans. Today, and check out number 4611. Proceed to 3821 Franklin Ave. This 1922 building was a

14 12 11 4615 St. Roch Ave the revitalized market, which sat empty and Carnot Street at the end of the block and then school for most of its life, but also served as B L V D G E N T I L L Y blighted for several years after Katrina, has turn right and right again onto Painters Street a senior citizen center. At time of printing, it 19 to pass by the Gentilly Terrace Charter School was closed. On the next block, 3929 Franklin ROUTE ST. ROCH CEMETERY Arguably the fnest California-style bungalow grocery and restaurant stalls to cater to local 2 M A N D O L I N BEGIN AND CHAPEL 1876 house in . Built as the Gentilly residents and tourists alike. at 4720 Painters St., itself a fne example of Ave. is a great example of the Mediterranean W I S T E R I A

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P M I A E Features raised tombs typical for the city, mostly residential boulevard with a wide Return to Mirabeau Avenue, turn right and Mount Tabor Baptist Church (formerly Gentilly

C D T I M L S N A E V E R B E O and a chapel with oferings on view. BAYHI HOUSE 1910 central median. The shotgun houses and continue six blocks to drive past deMontluzin, Methodist Church), at 4128 Franklin Ave., R F S E N A T E N 13 A M T I O Lafayette and Baccich streets — each named is the only Gothic Revival-style building in 4437 Painters St Creole cottages here are representative of the R N M S T G L A D I O L U O neighborhood as a whole. St. Roch Avenue for one of the three developers of Gentilly the neighborhood. It served as a disaster N T OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA Designed by H. Jordan Mackenzie, this was frst an extension of Poets Street in the Ridge, all of whom owned homes in the recovery center for the community after EDGEWOOD PARK N Q U I L Y J O 3 R E 17 T E 1931 two-and-a-half story Crafstman house is , but later renamed after district. A right onto Franklin Avenue at Hurricane Katrina, and also has been a Head M O N N D E R Eastern Street will bring you back to Gentilly Start school. Directly across the street, Bethel L A V E 1835 St Roch Ave unusual in its design, also meriting it a local the magnifcent Gothic Revival 1876 St. Roch N O L T R landmark designation with the Historic District Cemetery and Shrine, located on the right Boulevard. Turn left and proceed one block Lutheran Church at 4127 Franklin Ave., once I I E M L E P W A R R I N G T O N T C L O V E R N A brick structure with ornate paintings, Landmarks Commission. between N. Claiborne Avenue and N. to view the James House, 4423 Franklin Ave., known as Saint Matthew Evangelical Lutheran O 15 M

stained glass and a historic organ inside. Roman Street. a minimalist cube that continued to push the Church, was founded in the 1920s. Today

A C A C I A S T . D E N I S envelope of architecture in this neighborhood there is a Craftsman-style rectory on site, and

JAMES HOUSE 1973 Follow St. Roch Avenue away from the when it was built in 1973. a chapel built in the 1960s. I A E 14 C M Y R T L ROUTE A C A CIRCLE FOOD STORE 1854, 1938 4423 Franklin Ave Marigny to get to St. Roch Cemetery, and END S E R E 4 1522 St. Bernard Ave take some time to explore. During the yellow Drive south and take a left back onto Gentilly Turn right onto Gentilly Boulevard to admire A minimalist design that pushed the envelope fever plague of 1868, Lutheran Reverend Boulevard. Drive one mile to 2601 Gentilly the genteel homes lining the grand boulevard. L A F R E N I E R E S A G E R E This Spanish Colonial Revival-style building, of architecture when it was built. Peter Leonard Thevis of Holy Trinity National Boulevard, the campus of Dillard University, Note the combination of blond brick with D L E complete with an arched arcade and Spanish German Church in the Bywater promised a historically black liberal arts college that was spiral Solomonic columns at 3720 Gentilly B A Y

P L E A S U R E tiled roof, was originally the site of the public to build a shrine to St. Roch, a French saint founded in 1930 when two African American Blvd. St. James Major Catholic Church, a

ROUTE St. Bernard Market, established in 1854. DILLARD UNIVERSITY 1930 associated with infectious diseases, if his colleges (New Orleans University and Straight few doors down at 3736 Gentilly Blvd., was

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ROUTE College), formed many decades before, in built in 1953 in a simple Mid-Century Modern M A N I T Y Circle Food Store opened in 1938 as the frst 2601 Gentilly Blvd congregation was spared. The Chapel to St. H U END

T E 6 1 0 African American-owned grocery store in Roch in the center of the cemetery, which the late 19th century, merged into one school. style with long planes and clean lines. Though I N T E R S T A New Orleans, but it ofered much more than Historic black college founded in 1930. The faces St. Roch Avenue, is often sprinkled The university was named in honor of James relatively new compared to some of the food; acting as the community hub. It fooded beautiful campus features many elegant with ex-votos left by supplicants seeking the Hardy Dillard, a distinguished academician neighborhood’s buildings, the congregation

during Hurricane Katrina and was closed for buildings from the decade of its founding, and saint’s intervention. The walls surrounding the dedicated to educating African Americans. is older, having been established at the turn nine years, and reopened after revitalization, is anchored by a grand oak promenade. cemetery are flled with wall tombs, but if you Park and take a stroll around Dillard’s campus. of the 20th century in a building on St. Roch

in 2014. look closely, you’ll also see 14 small shrines, Its layout, which was crafted by architect Avenue. The school next door, once part of one for each of the Stations of the Cross, Moise. H Goldstein, took into consideration the church’s campus, is now leased to a local BROTHER MARTIN where Catholics come for the Way of the not only building placement, but tree charter school operator. The school, built in 16

HOME OF JELLY ROLL MORTON HIGH SCHOOL 1969 Cross on Good Friday. placement as well. The Rosa Freeman Keller 1928, has handsome decorative brickwork and 5 1441-43 Frenchman St 4401 Elysian Fields Ave Avenue of Oaks in the middle of campus is an a Spanish tile roof. The design of this building Outside the cemetery, the avenue diverges elegant lawn, lined with grand oaks, that was matches many Mediterranean Revival-style

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, better known Top private Catholic, all-boys junior and around Independence Park. Popularly known part of the campus plan from its inception. homes in the immediate vicinity. as Jelly Roll Morton, was a famed pianist, senior high school. as St. Roch Playground, this New Orleans The southern end of the green is fanked F L O R I by two buildings: Rosenwald Hall and Stern Make a U-turn at Peoples Avenue and drive D A composer, bandleader, vocalist, and raconteur. Recreation Department facility has been a

He got his start in Storyville, once New launching ground for neighborhood baseball Hall. Rosenwald Hall was the frst building down Gentilly Boulevard to continue to admire I D E A L

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S K T I S E L 3821 Franklin Ave 100 years old, was founded in 1911. been moved.) Stern Hall, built to house the homes; the Gentilly Ridge was settled early I N O R N . D O R G E N S HOME OF LOUIS BARBARIN school’s Division of Natural Sciences in 1948, by Europeans, and traversed for centuries by 6 1813-15 N. Robertson Designed by architect E.A. Christy, the is an exact replica of Rosenwald Hall on the Native Americans, due to its high elevation. The L A V E N . R O C H E B C O M U S former school features a restrained Beaux GENTILLY TERRACE exterior. The avenue of oaks leads to another boulevard, covered by a canopy of gorgeous Drummer Louis Barbarin lived at this address in Arts style that stood out in the primarily of Dillard’s historic buildings: Kearny Hall, the old-growth oaks, features homes in many

T O N T I 1927, and at 1723 N. Robertson from 1940-1946. residential neighborhood. Start at 3635 Gentilly Blvd., the home student union, constructed in 1937. styles: Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean

0 Along with his brother Paul, Louis formed the of Gentilly Terrace developer R.E. Edgar Revival, Arts and Crafts, Mid-Century Modern, 1 E T A T N . M I R O revived Onward Brass Band in the 1960s. deMontluzin. Its shake shingle-covered Hartzell Hall and Straight Hall, the campus’s even Tudor (3650 Gentilly Blvd.). S R R E E T T MOUNT TABOR exterior matches the Craftsman style of frst two dormitories, are also historic, and N S I 18 A

N 1936 many of this neighborhood’s homes. Tree- were built in the 1930s to match Rosenwald Continuing on Gentilly Boulevard, the grounds G A L V E Z BAPTIST CHURCH N . O

ROUTE M END L HOME OF PAUL BARBARIN 4128 Franklin Ave lined Gentilly Boulevard is an ancient route Hall. Also of note is Lawless Memorial of Brother Martin, a private all-boys high A 7 1724 N. Robertson connecting Bayou Sauvage at the Rigolets Chapel, designed in a L-shape by by F. school, appears on the right. As you approach O N N . J O H N S The only Gothic Revival-style building in (pronounced “RIG-uh-leez,” an eight-mile-long Monroe Labouisse in part to accommodate an Fairmont Drive, the boundary of Edgewood 3 Paul Barbarin was a drummer, composer and the neighborhood. strait that connects Orleans and St. Tammany incredible live oak tree on site, constructed Park, you can see how the landscape changes N . P R I E U R INDEPENDENCE / bandleader who played with Louis Armstrong, Parishes) with Bayou Road and the present- in 1955. dramatically outside of the historic district, ST. ROCH PARK King Oliver and others. day Vieux Carré (French Quarter). It is also with modern strip malls, drive-thrus and

D ST. JAMES MAJOR known locally as Dreux Street in honor of parking lots becoming prevalent. Take a left N . R O M A N N 19

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N R HENRY CUCULLU HOUSE 1912 3736 Gentilly Blvd who established their plantation near here. residences informed by the architectural G N Y T D E R B I A N . E 8 R R F F NEW MARIGNY O N . 4478 Venus St Drive into Edgewood Park after exiting styles prevalent in the neighborhood. 4129 . R P O M T A N S This Mid-Century Modern church was built Follow descending street numbers to Music Highway 610 onto Franklin Avenue. As you Clermont Dr. is a good example of Colonial

A I B O R N E N . C L Important bungalow home designed by for a congregation founded decades before St. and turn right to pass two outstanding approach the sign for Edgewood Park, the Revival style; one street over, 3420 Piedmont Edward F. Sporl in Edgewood Park. The parochial school next examples of Craftsman-style architecture at lanes suddenly are shaded with a canopy Dr., is an example of the Tudor style.

O N N . R O B E R T S door was built in 1928 but is no longer run by 4460 Music St. (note the inlaid pebble details) of old live oak trees. On either side of the 7 the church. and across the street at 4489 Music St. street are modest historic homes in a variety Sites in red are numbered on accompanying 6 5 9 map. Use caution, trust your judgement and 4 N 4490 VENUS ST of styles. Most are Arts and Crafts-style . V I L L E R E A left on Lombard Street, then right onto St. bungalows, though there are also Mid- be aware of your surroundings as you explore

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