INSTRUCTIONS EMERGENCY INFORMATION GETTING OFF THE STREETCAR You can obtain your daily or weekly Jazzy Pass Police—504-821-2222 or 911 Use this book’s maps to decide where you would on any RTA vehicle, bus, or streetcar. Prices are $3 Emergency Medical Service—504-658-2640 or like to get off. Pull the signal cord to stop after for the 1-day pass, $9 for the 3-day pass, and $55 911 passing the previous stop before your destination. for the 31-day pass. The passes can be used on any Touro Emergency Room—504-897-7011 The signal cord is strung along the tops of the Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) windows. In the rear, a signal button is located in streetcar or bus. They save time, and you can avoid BOARDING THE STREETCAR the vestibule. the hassle of having the exact fare ready every time After signaling, move to the rear door. On the you board. The streetcar stops only at car stops as shown in old, green, Perley Thomas streetcars on St. Charles, If you do not wish to use a Jazzy Pass and do the key on page 17. you must push the door when the green light above not have exact fare, you can insert a $5 bill for two Board only at the front door. Insert your pass it goes on. On the newer Riverfront and Canal cars, people into the computerized fare box. It will issue into the fare box; it will be returned to you right the door is controlled by the operator. The streetcar you a credit for $2.50, which you can both use for away. cannot move while the door is open. your return trip. Once on the ground, do not cross the tracks This book provides maps to Uptown via the ON BOARD THE STREETCAR until the streetcar has moved away. St. Charles streetcar, to the Mid-City area via the Canal Cemeteries and lines, to the French Move toward the rear, holding straps, poles, or Quarter via the Riverfront line, and to the train brass handholds for safety. Be seated. Take notice station via the Loyola Avenue line. which side you are sitting on, as you will wish to be Visitors should begin with the Grand Tour of St. on the opposite side for the return trip. Please save Charles Avenue. Board the streetcar either at stop specially marked seats for handicapped or elderly. 59 at Canal and Carondelet or stop 1 at St. Charles On the older St. Charles cars, feel free to raise or and Common. You are going uptown. Follow the lower windows and shades. The newer red Canal instructions in blue. and Riverfront cars do not have shades, and on the NOTE: These streetcars are not tour vehicles. Canal line, the cars are air-conditioned and heated, They are regular intercity commuter lines, and it so the windows do not raise at all. is recommended to avoid rush hours if possible, Smoking, radio playing, eating, and drinking as cars may be crowded. The best time to ride is are prohibited. Watch your children. Do not lean between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. out of windows, as clearances are close with our beautiful oak trees.

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st56p_fm.indd 7 11/7/2012 1:23:55 PM LEGEND FOR ST. CHARLES STREETCAR INTERIOR

When green light over door lights up, push door open to exit from streetcar.

Button for signaling stop, to left of rear exit door.

Strap to hold if standing.

Pull cord briefly to signal for stop.

Adjust shade to see clearly.

Open or shut window as desired.

Brass handle for standees.

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st56p_fm.indd 8 11/7/2012 1:23:57 PM SCHEDULES and RIDING TIME

ST. CHARLES SCHEDULE

Average speed: 8.8-9.7 mph 7 days a week (total roundtrip is 13.13 miles) 6 a.m.- 8 p.m. every 10 minutes

LEONIDAS BUS SCHEDULE (service to Audubon Zoo) This bus line only runs weekdays, every 1 hour 10 minutes. The first bus going to the zoo from St. Charles and Broadway departs at 6:49 a.m., and the last one returning to the streetcar leaves the zoo at 6:42 p.m. All schedules are subject to change without notice. This map shows the approximate time it takes to ride the St. Charles Streetcar to nine successive points along the route. The time markers are spaced at 5-minute intervals. The total time required to reach a given marker from Canal Street is also shown. This enables you to judge how long it will take to ride the streetcar between any 2 points along the route. RIVERFRONT SCHEDULE LOYOLA SCHEDULE CANAL SCHEDULE Length: About 1.5 miles (20 minutes each way) No schedule available at this writing Length: About 4 miles (30 minutes each way) 7 days a week 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Basically no service after midnight Cemeteries: About every 10 minutes Every 20 minutes midday City Park: About every 30-40 minutes Every 40 minutes early and late in the day

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st56p_fm.indd 9 11/7/2012 1:23:58 PM GETTING TO THE STREETCAR HOTEL LIST 32. Marriott 33. Monteleone Hotel Find your hotel or present location on the map. 1. A Creole House 34. Place D’Armes Hotel If in the : 2. Andrew Jackson Hotel 35. Prince Conti Walk to Royal or Bourbon and turn toward 3. Astor-Crowne Plaza 36. Provincial Motor Hotel Canal Street. Walk uptown. If on Bourbon, simply 4. Best Western 37. Ramada Plaza Inn on Bourbon St cross Canal Street and wait there (stop 59, which 5. Bienville House 38. Ritz-Carlton is the end of the St. Charles line inbound and the 6. Bourbon Orleans Hotel 39. Roosevelt beginning outbound). If on Royal, cross Canal and 7. Chateau Bourbon 40. Royal Orleans walk another block to Common (which is stop 8. Chateau Lemoyne 41. Royal Sonesta Hotel 1). St. Charles streetcars do not accept passengers 9. Chateau Motor Hotel 42. St. Ann Hotel/Marie Antoinette at Canal and St. Charles. If you do not wish to 10. Comfort Inn 43. St. Louis Hotel purchase an all-day pass, the fare is $1.25 per 11. Cornstalk House 44. St. Peter Guest Hotel person, exact change required. Or if you wish to 12. Dauphine Orleans Hotel 45. Sheraton board a Canal streetcar, simply make your way 13. De La Post Motor Hotel 46. Ursuline Guest House to Canal Street. The red cars stop at almost every 14. Doubletree 47. Warwick Hotel corner. 15. Embassy Suites 48. Westin Peak hours are Monday through Friday 6 a.m.-9 16. Inn 49. W Hotel a.m. and 3 p.m.-6 p.m. 17. Hilton Garden Inn If in the Central Business District: 18. Hilton Riverside You can walk to any outbound stop along St. 19. Holiday Inn Loyola Charles Street (Union, Poydras, etc.) and board 20. Holiday Inn French Quarter there. Of course, you can connect with St. Charles 21. Hotel Le Cirque by using the red cars on Canal. 22. Hotel Maison DeVille Not using a pass? Transfers are 25 cents extra, 23. Hyatt Regency good in only one direction, and never on the same 24. JW Marriott line. 25. Lafitte Guest House 26. Lafayette Hotel 27. Lamothe House 28. Le Pavillon Hotel 29. Le Richelieu Motor Hotel 30. Loew’s 31. Maison Dupuy Hotel

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st56p_fm.indd 10 11/7/2012 1:23:59 PM SUPERDOME

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LOYOLA AVE. 5 minutes N. RAMPART ST. 10 minutes 15 minutes

COMMONC ST. 232 ST. 4 19 31 44 1

BURGUNDYBUR ST. PHILIP ST. 39

ST. PETER ST. ST. S. RAMPARTO’KEEFE ST.KEEFE ST. 38 IBERVILLE ST. 8 12 LAFAYETTE ST.

DAUPHINE ST. TRAIN & BUS STATION BUS & TRAIN

URSULINES ST. BARONNE ST. 35 37 25 GIROD ST. GRAVIER ST. 7

BIENVILLE ST.

10 ORLEANS ST. BOURBON ST. 28 PERDIDO ST. 59 43 41 22 6 46 POYDRAS ST. 17 3 424 2 11 1 YDRAS ST ROYAL ST. CONTI ST. NICHOLLS ST. GOV.

ST. ANN ST. ST. JULIA ST.ST 20 343 33 40 9 27 24 SS CHARTRESES ST.

ST. LOUIS ST. ST. BARRACKS ST. CARONDELET ST. 32 13 36 29 45 16 DUMAINE ST.

TOULOUSE ST. CANAL ST. DECATUR ST. ST. CHARLES AVE. HOWARD AVE. HOWARD 26 5 S ST MAGAMAGAZINEAGA ST. T N. PETERS ST. ESPLANADE AVE.

JOSEPH ST. CAMCAMP ST. 14 48 21 49 30 HARRAH’S CASINO

TOUL

MERCE TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 18 COMMERCE15 ST.

S. PETERS ST. 11 FULTON ST.

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st56p_fm.indd 12 11/7/2012 1:24:10 PM INTRODUCTION

A ride on the green St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Orleans by Jean-Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville. On February 1, 1893, the Carrollton line was is a journey into the history and myth of New In the beginning, all Uptown was Bienville’s renamed St. Charles, and new streetcars began Orleans and a lesson in the development of a city. plantation. The location of the original city, today’s service. They left from Carrollton Car House, At the opposite end of the spectrum, a ride on our French Quarter, had been selected by Bienville in which is still in use today. In 1899, NO&CRR shiny new red cars on Canal Street evokes memories 1699. In 1718, John Law gave Bienville permission and Canal & Claiborne Railway consolidated to of old, while offering modern technology. to build the city. The upriver boundary of the city become a company known as NO & Carrollton RR, The green streetcars were built in 1923 and plan is where Iberville Street is today, one block Light & Power. It went into receivership in 1905 1924 by the Perley Thomas Car Company. They on the downtown side of Canal Street. From there and emerged as New Orleans Railway & Light. are numbered in the 900 series and were designed to Common Street were the city walls and then A complete and final reorganization of all street by Perley A. Thomas of High Point, NC. The red the Commons. Through the Commons there was railways and power companies was done in 1922. streetcars are homemade, built right here in New supposed to be a navigation canal connecting the Street railway mileage in the city reached a Orleans by NORTA at the Carrollton car barn river and Lake Pontchartrain. The canal was never peak that year with 225 miles of track. In 1926, (Carrollton Station). While designed and built to look constructed but gave Canal Street its name. the highest ridership occurred, with 148 million like our original streetcars, they are very modern, Beyond the city of Lafayette (today’s Garden patrons. That was surpassed in 1945 with 246 fast, and energy efficient. The ones on Canal Street, District) were scattered settlements and plantation million riders. After the war, trolley lines that had numbered in the 2000 series, have creature comforts homes and speculative subdivisions created by the held on to help the war effort disappeared along such as air-conditioning and heating. owners of the NO&CRR. They were waiting for the with ridership. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. The St. Charles line has the distinction of land boom that the Carrollton line was expected to ran our transit system until 1983, when it turned being one of the oldest continuously operating create, which eventually did come to pass. over operations to the government-subsidized rail lines in the world, established September 26, The real growth of the street railway system NORTA. By then, New Orleans had only one trolley 1835. In the beginning, steam locomotives were began after the Civil War. The 1860s ushered in line left, the St. Charles line. used to pull passenger cars serving the towns of great experiments with technology. The first major Lafayette, Jefferson City, and Carrollton. It was technical change was the replacement of the old CANAL STREET HISTORY known then as the New Orleans & Carrollton steam engines with horses in 1867. In 1885, two Railroad (NO&CRR). That continuous record was electric trains were shown at the World’s Industrial Canal Street—at 170 feet 6 inches the widest interrupted by . and Cotton Centennial Exposition in Audubon business-district street in the country—was never Park. One of those was an electric trolley designed paved curb to curb for the use of ordinary vehicles. GROWTH OF UPTOWN by a company in Belgium. Montgomery, AL It began as a “commons” area between the original adopted this system the next year, but it would be city, also called the French Quarter or Vieux Carré, To really understand how Uptown came to be, almost a decade before trolleys ran in the city of and the American Quarter, which developed you have to go back to 1718 and the founding of New New Orleans. immediately upriver. In the early 1800s, a canal

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st56p_fm.indd 13 11/7/2012 1:24:10 PM was supposed to have been built down the middle The Riverfront line used a section of standard-gauge never had streetcar service, to Esplanade Avenue at of this commons. It never came to pass, and the track that was no longer needed by the railroads. Beauregard Circle. commons evolved into a street, with two roadways It was operated with 3 Perley Thomas cars and 3 Local oilman and philanthropist Patrick F. flanking a central reservation. secondhand cars from Melbourne, Australia, the Taylor donated $1.2 million worth of surplus This “neutral ground” (as New Orleanians call latter being wheelchair accessible. The Riverfront oilfield pipe to be used as support poles for the the median) originally sported grass and trees, line proved to be an immediate success both with trolley wires. A prototype Perley Thomas replica providing an almost parklike environment. And like tourists and New Orleanians, so it was expanded to car, number 2001, had been constructed in 1997, on some of New Orleans’ other wide streets, part of 2 separate tracks in 1990. The Perley Thomas cars featuring wheelchair accessibility, air-conditioning, this neutral ground was eventually laid with street were retired in 1997 when the line was changed to and what was described as state-of-the-art control TheStreetcar Guide to New Orleans railway tracks, free from conflict with other types of a wider gauge. New cars (replicas of the 900-series technology from the Czech Republic, including vehicles. But because Canal was (and remains) the Perley Thomas cars used on the St. Charles line) dynamic braking. Under the direction of Elmer Von heart of the Central Business District, its wide neutral were built in Carrollton Station. Today there are Dullen, 23 additional streetcars, numbered 2002 ground became completely filled with tracks and was 7 cars assigned to the Riverfront line, numbered to 2024, were constructed at Carrollton Station finally paved over. Even paved, though, the neutral 457 to 463, all of them completely wheelchair to equip the Canal line. The Brookville Mining ground was still for street railways only, and other accessible. Cars 458 to 463 are newly built. The Equipment Corp. provided 23 sets of four-motor vehicles remained in the two flanking roadways. other car, the 457, is an original 1924 Perley trucks, controls, and air-conditioning units for the Street railways were a part of the Canal Street Thomas car (formerly the 957) rebuilt for operation new cars. The line reopened in 2004. scene until May 31, 1964, when the Canal line on the Riverfront line. was dieselized. The inner tracks and the four-track LOYOLA AVENUE STREETCAR terminus and loop at the Liberty Monument were CANAL STREETCAR COMEBACK removed, and in their place, bus lanes were installed LINE from Claiborne to the Liberty Monument. This In 1997, it was decided to build new tracks At this writing, the newest streetcar line in marked the first time that any vehicle other than connecting the Riverfront line with the St. Charles New Orleans is under construction. It will run a streetcar had the right to operate on the neutral line, so that Riverfront cars could be housed at on Loyola Avenue between Canal Street and the ground of Canal Street. The only track remaining Carrollton Station. Double track was built on Union Passenger Terminal. Construction is slated on Canal Street was the single block of outer track Canal Street, using the bus lanes in the inner- to be completed by December of 2012. It will between Carondelet and St. Charles, which did not track position, from Baronne/Dauphine to the foot service the New Orleans Public Library, City Hall, even have a passenger boarding area. of Canal, and connected to the Riverfront line, the Superdome, the Hyatt Hotel, and the Amtrak which was converted to wider gauge. The main train/Greyhound bus station. Costing slightly more RIVERFRONT STREETCAR LINE Canal line would extend from the foot of Canal than $34 million, it will use surplus red Canal cars. Street out to City Park Avenue, just as it had before The line will be 8 blocks long with 4 stops (Tulane August 14, 1988, saw the inauguration of the dieselization in 1964. There would also be a branch Avenue, , Julia Street, and the Union first new streetcar line in New Orleans since 1926. line along North , which had Passenger Terminal).

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st56p_fm.indd 14 11/7/2012 1:24:10 PM TheStreetcar Guide to New Orleans

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st56p_fm.indd 15 11/7/2012 1:24:10 PM st56p_fm.indd 16 11/7/2012 1:24:10 PM GRAND TOUR OF ST. CHARLES AVENUE

The maps in this book show the entire routes This compass rose is provided on each map in the MAPS RIVERSIDE of the St. Charles, Canal Street, Riverfront, and book. UPTOWN DOWNTOWN Loyola streetcar lines. The St. Charles line begins Map 1—Central Business District LAKESIDE at car stop 59 at Carondelet and Canal or car stop Map 2—Coliseum Square In New Orleans major directions are Up, Down, 1 at St. Charles and Common, going all the way to Map 3—Garden District River, and Lake. Map 4—Bouligny the end of the line (Carrollton and Claiborne) and Up means upriver from any point. back. Part of the Leonidas bus line takes you from Map 5—University Section St. Charles and Broadway to the Audubon Zoo. Map 6—Leonidas Bus, Audubon Park, Zoo Down means downriver from any point. The key shows the symbols used on the Atlas Map 7—Riverbend Uptown is the area upriver from Canal Street. Maps. Maps of New Orleans are usually oriented Map 8—Carrollton to the north with the river at the bottom. The St. River is to the left as you travel Up. Charles Atlas Maps in this book have the river at the Lake is to the right as you travel Up. top to allow the direction of travel to proceed from KEY left to right on the page as you look from car stop Uptown/Lakebound Streetcar route. 59 or 1 in the Central Business District to Uptown. This tour provides a sample of the attractions Downtown/Riverbound Streetcar route. of . The route takes you the entire length of our historic St. Charles Streetcar Uptown/Lakebound car stop. line past gracious homes, fine restaurants, and Downtown/Riverbound car stop. shopping. The upbound route beginning at car stop 59 or 1 is in blue on the maps. If you are starting Walking route. your tour uptown, turn to page 56 and follow the 1 Hundred block. yellow route.

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st56p_fm.indd 17 11/7/2012 1:24:11 PM LEGEND TO MAP 1 CAR STOP 59 9 JULIA ROW 12 corner Canal and Carondelet streets 600 block Julia Street 13 OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN 1 PICKWICK CLUB 10 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM ART corner Canal Street and St. Charles 420 Julia Street 925 Camp Street Avenue CAR STOP 6 14 CIVIL WAR MUSEUM CAR STOP 3 St. Joseph Street 929 Camp Street Poydras Street 11 CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 15 WORLD WAR II MUSEUM 2 ONE SHELL SQUARE 900 Camp Street 945 corner Poydras Street and St. Charles CAR STOP 7 Avenue Lee Circle 3 PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING opposite One Shell Square CAR STOP 4 Lafayette Street 4 GALLIER HALL 545 St. Charles Avenue 5 LAFAYETTE SQUARE 6 FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS/OLD POST OFFICE 600 Camp Street 7 U.S. DISTRICT COURT/HALE BOGGS BUILDING 500 Camp Street 8 ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 724 Camp Street CAR STOP 5 Julia Street Contemporary Arts Center

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st56p_fm.indd 18 11/7/2012 1:24:14 PM RIVERSIDE 10 ANDREW HIGGINS

UPTOWN NOTRE DAME ST.

15 ST PETERS ST.

11 DOWNTOWN

LAKESIDE MAGAZINE ST. 13 1314 ST. JOSEPH ST. CONSTANCE ST. FRENCH 53 QUARTER CAPEVILLE ST. LEE 8 CIRCLE TCHOUPITOULAS ST. LAFAYETTE ST. 7

12 10 CAMP ST. POYDRAS ST. 6 9 9 6 NATCHEZ ST. 7 SOUTH ST. CHURCH ST. 8 54

5 NORTH ST.LAFAYETTE SQUARE HOWARD AVE. CANAL ST. 7 BD. OF TRADE 5 DORSIERE ST. ST. CHARLESGIROD ST. AVE. COMMERCIAL 55 4 6

ALLEY 3 4 JULIA ST. 5 56 CHARTRES ST. COMMON ST. 3 4 START PERDIDO ST. LAFAYETTE ST. 148 3 2 2 57 HERE GRAVIER ST. ROYAL ST. 1 2 1 1 149 58 CARONDELET ST. 151 BARONNE ST. 59 150 UNION ST. BOURBON ST. CARROLL ST.

O’KEEFE ST. S. RAMPART ST. PENN ST.

DAUPHINE ST. Atlas CENTRAL BUSINESS TRAIN MAP 1 DISTRICT LOYOLA AVE. STATION

st56p_fm.indd 19 11/7/2012 1:24:15 PM Begin Upbound tour. This 27-story building, faced in red granite, was the square. Reboard at the same location or stops 5, Board the streetcar at car stop 59 or car stop 1 completed in 1980. Its outstanding features include 6, or 7. This shows the benefits of a 1-day pass. (see “Getting to the Streetcar” for instructions on an energy-efficient heating and cooling system and reaching these locations from your hotel). 2 large interior atriums. 4 GALLIER HALL 545 St. Charles CAR STOP 59 CANAL AND CARONDELET CAR STOP 4 LAFAYETTE STREET Begun in 1845 and completed in 1853, 1 PICKWICK CLUB Get off here and cross St. Charles Avenue into this building served as City Hall for 100 years. corner Canal and St. Charles Built in 1826 and converted to a hotel in 1858, the present elaborate façade in the Italianate style dates from 1875, when it became the Crescent Billiard Hall. The architect was Henry Howard, known for his designs of many later plantation homes as well as numerous commercial and residential buildings in the city. The upper floors have served as a clubhouse of the Pickwick Club, a private organization, since 1950. During Mardi Gras season, a grandstand on Canal Street is the scene of ceremonies and festivities.

CAR STOP 3 POYDRAS STREET 2 ONE SHELL SQUARE corner Poydras and St. Charles Completed in 1972, this skyscraper of 50 stories (697 feet) is the tallest building in New Orleans. It rests on 500 concrete friction piles, each 210 feet long, topped by 8 feet of concrete. This extensive foundation system makes possible buildings of any height in a city with a high water level and soil so soft that 4-story buildings were once considered folly.

3 PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING opposite One Shell Square Gallier Hall, 1853

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st56p_fm.indd 20 11/7/2012 1:24:18 PM Today it is a city office building and public hall U.S. Post Office and was converted to a Federal Look to the left after crossing Girod Street. Over named in honor of its architect, James Gallier, Courthouse in 1961. the rooflines of the 19th-century buildings on Camp Sr. During Mardi Gras, the mayor greets kings Street, you will see the Gothic Revival tower of St. and queens of the various parades from a 7 U.S. DISTRICT COURT/HALE BOGGS Patrick’s Church. Begun in 1838 and completed in grandstand erected in front. BUILDING 1840, this was the first Roman Catholic church in Gallier Hall is considered one of the finest ex- 500 Camp New Orleans to be built outside the French Quarter. amples of Greek Revival architecture in the country. This complex was completed in 1976. The Its congregation was primarily Irish. The figures in the tympanum over the colonnade are office tower is a memorial to Hale Boggs, the U.S. Justice, flanked by America, representing Liberty, congressman from the Second District of Louisiana CAR STOP 5 JULIA STREET and Louisiana, representing Commerce. who died in a plane crash in Alaska. 9 JULIA ROW 600 block Julia 5 LAFAYETTE SQUARE 8 ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Built in 1833, this fine row of simple, yet Bounded by St. Charles, Camp, North, and South 724 Camp elegant townhouses is the only remaining example This is the original Plaza of the Ville Gravier, laid out in 1788. After 1852, the second municipality chose Lafayette Square as the site of their new City Hall, which became the seat of the government for the united city. The statues in the square are of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Clay, and John McDonough, a benefactor of local public schools. Clay’s statue once stood at the corner of Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue. Today Lafayette Square is surrounded by several government buildings.

6 FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS/OLD POST OFFICE 600 Camp Designed by Hale and Rogers and built in 1914, it is the city’s outstanding example of Beaux Arts architecture, drawing strongly on the traditions of the Italian Renaissance. Each corner of the roof has sculpture representing History, Industry, Commerce, and the Arts. It was built as the main Julia Row, 1833

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st56p_fm.indd 21 11/7/2012 1:24:21 PM Civil War and Ogden museums

st56p_fm.indd 22 11/7/2012 1:24:22 PM of a popular housing type from the boom years of This monument to Robert E. Lee, commander the 1830s. Originally, each of the 13 houses was of the Confederate Army, was completed in 1884 a single-family residence and was occupied by a by sculptor Alexander Doyle. The general faces wealthy or notable family. north, which, in addition to expressing defiance to his enemies, provides the only easily located 10 LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM orientation in the city to a cardinal direction. 420 Julia Lee Circle is the gateway to Uptown and is part Walk 2 blocks toward the river and you will of the neoclassical street pattern of the surrounding encounter the Louisiana Children’s Museum. It is area. Originally it was known as Tivoli Circus and fun for all ages, and your child can even pretend to was to have been an amusement park surrounded be a streetcar motorman. by a moat that was part of the drainage system. If you look to your right as you round Lee Circle in a CAR STOP 6 ST. JOSEPH STREET counterclockwise direction, you can catch a glimpse 11 CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER of the golden-domed St. John the Baptist Catholic 900 Camp Church (sounds oxymoronic, doesn’t it?), closed 15 WORLD WAR II MUSEUM One block toward the river is the Contemporary after Hurricane Katrina; the Plaza Tower, a 45-story 945 Magazine Arts Center. office building also closed; and Union Passenger This complex consists of 4 museums within a Terminal for Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses, 2-block radius, all very worthwhile, with something end of the future Loyola streetcar line. for everyone.

13 OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART 925 Camp

14 CIVIL WAR MUSEUM 929 Camp

Lee Circle, gateway to Uptown CAR STOP 7 LEE CIRCLE 12 LEE CIRCLE intersection of Howard and St. Charles

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