Uptown, Carrollton & Broadmoor

7 O F 8 E X P E RIEN C E New Orleans’ Historic Neighborhoods Uptown, Carrollton & Broadmoor PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE N EIGHBORHOOD E VENTS FA L L What’s going down Oak Street Po-Boy Festival Art for Art’s Sake on Magazine Street around here? WIN TER Merriment on Magazine Street S P RIN G Palmer Park Holiday Market Mardi Gras Parades down St. Charles Ave Champagne Stroll on Magazine Street Freret Street Festival Soul Fest at Audubon Zoo Whitney Zoo To Do GO DEEPER S U MMER For details on these and other great New Orleans events year-round, see Mid-Summer Mardi Gras on Oak Street NewOrleansOnline.com/calendar W E A SKE D L O C A L S ANGIMARGEO GREE PHELPN S FCIOTRMIZEENRS DI FROERC T O R What is your favorite 1S AGREV E AOTEU RR CEN EMWE TORE RLEIEANS S spot in the city? The Algiersfountain F erpoolry. 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Ihomes. buy a paper The g atreen the P cerlornerey Thomas grocer y, n ever miss a Friday, or you might as well live Sheaderies t o9 0a 0c ostree tshocarsp ,on and St. thank Charles my astarsre inThe H ohusugeton, front the ypo srachy. Tofradition the Co tloumns the max.Hotel, theI liv eoldest in this operating enchanting str eetneighborhood. railroad in the sipping mimosas with friends. United States. Quouotteses f frromom N Newew O Orleans:rleans: Da Dysa ysand and Nig Nihtsg inhts the in Dtherea Dmreay Cmityy b Cyi tMy abry FMitazpary tFrick.itzpa trick. Cover Photo— James Shaw UPTOWN CARROLLTON Uptown New Orleans is a world unto itself, city’s biggest universities, Tulane and Loyola, Bienville in 1719, then divided into smaller The tree-lined streets, tropical foliage, more like a separate village within the city are located here, as are some of New Orleans’ plantations in 1723. Sugar was rst granulated charming cottages and maybe even a chance rather than just a neighborhood. It is the best parochial and private schools, making the on one of these, the de Boré Plantation, in encounter with a wandering peacock make largest neighborhood in the city, and is also area attractive to families. Magazine Street 1794, and a major brickyard had developed Carrollton feel nostalgic, and whimsical; the the largest historic neighborhood in the stretches the length of the neighborhood and is on the Bouligny Plantation by 1820. Today, students, faculty and alumni of nearby Loyola United States listed on the National Register lled with busy local merchants. Audubon Park, the sounds of New Orleans’ active port along and Tulane universities who live in the area of Historic Places, with over 10,000 historic the Audubon Zoo and the Fly are all fantastic the Mississippi in Uptown can be heard also bring the feel of a college town. buildings of signi cance within. The area from locations for people to pass an afternoon, as throughout the neighborhood. Louisiana Avenue to Broadway is lled with a is a ride on the St. Charles streetcar, named a Carrollton was established as a rural resort diverse population of residents, streetscapes National Historic Landmark in 2014. The plantations that comprised the land community outside of New Orleans in 1833, of beautifully maintained homes of all sizes Uptown began subdividing in the mid 19th and the neighborhood still has a laid-back shaded by towering live oaks, and plentiful Uptown was part of lands granted to Louisiana century. Seven faubourgs, or developments, feel. Oak Street, one of Carrollton’s main shops, restaurants and groceries. Two of the Governor Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de were the result, combining in 1850 to form shopping corridors, still has the look and feel Je erson City (between Toledano and of the 1950s, while Maple Street o ers chic Je erson streets). New Orleans annexed that boutiques, delectable dining and several land in 1870. By that time, prominent citizens co ee shops in addition to typical college- had already begun building urban villas along town fare. Good restaurants in all price ranges St. Charles Avenue. The 1884-1885 World’s are plentiful in Carrollton, and food types span Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition a global variety of ethnicities. on the present-day site of Audubon Park created a building boom in the area. Today’s Uptown retains many of the grand homes built in the late 19th century along St. Charles Avenue and in exclusive cul-de-sac developments like Rosa Park. On oak-shaded streets intersecting St. Charles, Prytania and Magazine, Uptown’s major thoroughfares, frame houses with ample galleries are the norm. Closer to the river, more modest shotguns built to house 19th-century workers have charm amidst the tropical foliage of the neighborhood’s streets. Though it was only named a National Register Historic District in 1985, for over a century Uptown has been a premier urban residential neighborhood that o ers a legacy of gracious living. Photo— Liz Jurey BROADMOOR Early development of the area concentrated Broadmoor is an architecturally, economically near the natural levee fronting the river. and racially diverse neighborhood in the By the 1850s, Carrollton had a racetrack, heart of New Orleans largely de ned by the ne gardens, a hotel and an elegant train impressive 20th-century historic homes that station. Tourists have been replaced by line Napoleon Avenue and Fontainebleau students, and the neighborhood’s many Drive. But there is a variety of architecture businesses cater to the lively residents throughout the neighborhood, from wooden who call Carrollton home. A ride up St. shotguns and Arts and Crafts-style bungalows Charles Avenue in the streetcar follows to grand Mediterranean Revival and Spanish the sharp bend in the river (the levee is Colonial-style estates — even the Rosa Keller only two blocks behind) and turns to go up Library branch, with a historic brick façade Carrollton Avenue, ending at the street’s and Spanish tile roof, has an ultra-modern intersection with Claiborne Avenue. The addition, showcasing the di erent styles route is advantageous for residents and a one can see amongst Broadmoor’s nearly pleasure-ride back in time for tourists. The 800 historic structures. It was listed on the neighborhood was added to the National National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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