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- - In New Orleans, opportunities New In abounded upper American new A class formed, and ing fathers increasingly ceded power to the to ceded power fathers increasingly ing “hard that Man,” so-called “Jacksonian and the genteel aristocracy the and found the of to according person,” ambitious working whom “for Hofstadter, Richard historian religion.” of kind a enterprise was Man empowered for — Jacksonian the for largest the males, was It is. city that white money of sums South, the in vast where and changed won fortunes and hands, were lost regularly. wealth its ample members their put initially town other things, among capacious into, houses Greek the of usually and style. Neoclassical or Above: John Notman’s 1839 Riverside Villa Villa Riverside 1839 Notman’s John Above: first as the major is known Jersey in New States. designItalianate in the United Library of Congress Below: The Robb , built 1854 on The Robb Below: 1906 in is pictured here Avenue, Washington College. it housed Sophiewhen Newcomb Library razed in 1954. It was of Congress Left: at Examples architecture of Italianate Orleans. in New Avenue 1006 Washington [email protected] / Chris Granger - - - - - American architects, ever aware of their of aware architects,American ever Italianate arrived in America at the right the at America in arrived Italianate European peers, pilgrim own their made his States with United the to Italianate ing in 1839 design named Riverside villa a for land the Two later, years N.J.. Burlington, ages to England and Italy and returned and ages Italy and England to credits Philadel Caldwell inspired. doubly introduc with Notman architect John phia scape Downing Jackson designer Andrew “Treatisepublished his Theory the on and which Practice Landscape of Gardening,” edified both on and Americans Italianate Picturesque philosophies. the and Age the Jackson, of was This time. mov were Americans changing. was nation ing west; individualism became creed; a west;ing individualism ------(It was during this era, incidentally, that incidentally, era, this during was (It A secondA offshoot an factor of was lovely paintings of with returned They dissertation, architectural 1975 her In Artists art, same their the with did and con new slowed Wars Napoleonic The Unlike Enlightenment thinkers, who Enlightenment Unlike of Downton Abby fame Castle Abby Downton of Highclere its original from renovated radically was Revival the into Classical form Its Charles architect, behemoth today. is it specialized incorpo and Italianate in Barry, struction. But afterwards, with pent-up pent-up with struction. afterwards, But upper to English an and classdemand ready described Caldwell what embrace “sheer as gained Italianate aesthetic enjoyment,” luxury.” of popularity “aesthetic the as ,Campaniles bell bowed or towers, decorative eaves, arcades, bracketed bays, segmentedmoldings and arches appeared books Pattern England. made throughout inexpen reproduction and their efficient style the spread. and sive, redesign, the he its which rated motifs into described Anglo-Italian.) as Romanticism known as “Picturesque.” This “Picturesque.” as known Romanticism scholars budding developed as movement advan taking elsewhere, and England from landscapes.Italian these People found scenesbucolic be to enchanting, their and properties be pittoresco as to came known pic (“like hence, — Italian in painting”) a described Caldwell the G. Joan historian Picturesque aesthetic bearing as certain a asymmetry irregularity” and “roughness, somewhere beauti between the falling archi architects designs. their with 1802, In ture, Romanticists fancied glory the Romanticists the of ture, poignancy the and Renaissance medieval of Italian of panache embraced the and ruins, gardens. buildings and passenger and roads ship tage improved of service, spent Tus the in time increasingly part as of Italy of regions Romagna and cany tour.” “grand academic their turesque English. in Pic eyes, English To sublime. the and ful past, and glorious turesque exuded Italy’s startedgardeners incorporating look the scenic installing parks, bridges, stone into lagoons shrubbery and look them make to paintings. lovely like “pro Caldwell, to according tect Nash, John style” duced first Italian the the in villa true estate an at England, named in design featured Nash’s near Shrewsbury. an with tower rounded asymmetrical an octagonal room loggia a and gallery) (arcade finished in all topped balustrade, a with outskirts the from lifted if as stucco, white design ham the later would Nash . of based near Bristol, Blaise, of let Pictur on looks it like esque day this philosophies. To painting. a found inspiration in Classical antiquity and Classical antiquity in inspiration found architec Roman and Greek tookthus to H8 FRIDAY , JUNE 10, 2016 THE TIMES PICAYUNE NOLA.COM vases, and other articles of vertu.”vases, articles and other engravings,ors, marble statuary, bronzes, of oil paintings, waterchoice collection col cious hall... .” Inside were Robb’s and “large with massiveble steps (and) railings spa was particularly superb, (as are the) mar was painting spared(;) fresco its expense . No comfort... refined taste and substantial it an air of quiet beauty, about and “had vated terrace,” wrote the Daily Picayune, high, eighty square, feet [on a] gently ele the mansion “two influences, sat stories Picturesque suggesting ish landscaping Surrounded by streets. lavand Chestnut on Washingtonzzo Avenue Camp between James Robb an Italian pala had erected millionaire the globe-trotting eccentric dance of marble. and verandatured a gallery amid an abun $22,000,Hennen. Costing the mansion fea Avenue Duncan esquire for local in 1850 was Street Jackson near built on Prytania Italian villa,” as the Daily Picayune put it, ard. How of all, Diettel Henry and most Albert liam and James Freret, James Gallier Jr., style’s champions were local Wil architects were todesigners deliver. eager Among the elsewhere, and like their peers ian look, nouveau riche wanted that trendy new Ital came and dated. to The a bit stodgy feel Robb’s give helped gardened palazzo the years laterTwo away, and a few blocks example ofAn a early “magnificent local Greek Revival 1850s, But by the booming ------middle class had helped standardize what what standardize middle had helped class and a growingalization, production mass configurations. in theirchange essential rather than a to types standard structural in New as an Orleans ornamental overlay eavesing roof and galleries. lin brackets dance of paired volute-shaped and windows, heavy molding and an abun Italianate them. detailing upon and applied and houses, shotgun cottages nians, including center-hall townhouses, already familiar to types Newhouse Orlea statuary. standard they Instead, designed Italian order, the gardens and much less and irregularity typical asymmetry of the they sawlots, to little abide reason by the on standard urban city houses designing were architects local mostly tion. Because anate villas, however, were the excep this day the eye. stuns and to aesthetics, ianate and Picturesque sive Ital manicured gardens, it embodied ClubJockey in 1865 originally with expan the Fairgrounds.near Built as the Louisiana in thesurvives form of the Luling Mansion but a comparableRobb specimen houses, hoods. in this affluentstyle and other neighbor dence that Italianate a dominate came to be name, its Garden and it’s District no coinci By the end of the 19th century, industri Italianate was manifested thus mostly doorwaysThis segmented-arch included and grand a few other Itali These We have the Hennen and both since lost elsewhere, anddesignerswere eager todeliver. that trendy newItalianliketheir look, peers anddated. Thenouveau riche wanted a bit stodgy the 1850s,By booming Greek Revival cametofeel affluent neighborhoods. Photos byChrisGranger /[email protected] adominate style Italianate intheGarden cameto be andother District Left: Above: arches Italianate segment framethewindows St.Andrew St. at1235-37 ------Twitter. campanella.com or@nolacampanella on books. He may bereached through rich “Geographies ofNew Orleans” and other Street: AHistory,” “Bienville’s Dilemma,” for the GulfSouth, isthe author of“Bourbon FellowMonroe with the New Orleans Center the TulaneSchool ofArchitecture anda phers. were by their likely philoso unforeseen and they continue to inspire us in ways that byNew the thousands, cityscape Orleans remain in the modern thetic philosophies circles. they were in some disdained openly WorldNeoclassicism. After the Second War, Movement, RomanticismPicturesque and andVictorian Italianate, to not mention the increasingly the challenge rationale behind wouldgaudy and Modernism decadent. suddenly all of the above came to seem intopopular the early 1900s. such as Renaissance Revival, it remained Italianate, and along with parallel styles families. for working-class erected being houses shotgun the of thousands prosaic to spruce andbrackets quoins up en masse and of builders “cataloging, milled houses” Italianate’s for detail elaborate penchant Anne,such as and Eastlake Queen absorbed ous. New late architectural Victorian styles, had previously considered luxuri been Richard Campanella, ageographer with Yet aes of these the architectural vessels Then came World War I in Europe, and Italianate Victorian by this time became - - - - -