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CAROLYN PERRY AJAT TCOKRINEE DY ERKS A U THO R A D VERTI S I N G S t. Claude Avenue, and the Marigny, Bywater, Strolling early mornings in the Lower SFridt. Raochy lunch and atTr eméGala tneighborhoods,oire’s. Reservations on the no t Quarter. Neighbors walking dogs greet one Sacceceondpted. Satu Tablerday hopping of every d monthe rigeu whenr. Reg ularsthe another. I buy a paper at the corner grocery, anretistver cmissooperati a Fridvesay ,and or y aorut gmightalleries as hawellve litheirve head to a co ee shop, and thank my stars openings.in Houston, The the sytr seeayt.s T andradition neighborhoods to the max. I live in this enchanting neighborhood. come alive. 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.itzpatrick. NEW MARIGNY GENTILLY TERRACE 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 Faubourg St. Roch, as it is also known, has 1990s to ght the neighborhood’s ills, however, French Quarter, 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 Bernard de Marigny’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 Jelly Roll Morton, 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 Elysian Fields Avenue 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 Hurricane Katrina, of charming historic homes and grand such diverse amenities as the at-times-surreal The establishment of Dillard University 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 downtown 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 Claiborne Avenue 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.