prioritize it and if you wanna know when your idea comes to
the French Quarter and it's most historic surrounding
bullet straight through and it wouldn't touch anything. That
one, World War two era, you can find bungalow shotgun houses
revival shotgun houses. You can find Italian-it shotgun houses
building preservation and restoration in general all
we explored the inside of a classic Creole Cottage and
Quarter, the Marine, Bayou Saint John, neighborhoods like
you take these experiences, you can find the information for
doing that down below. Also, we recently shared a video where
different, little deeper back into the Latin past than what
you see elsewhere in the more modern parts of town. As you
and just look around in town because these cover, I'd say
beloved today at least from the outside and if you were to
understand that these neighborhoods are a little
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could open all the doors and some of them and see daylight
metaphor is apt. You at the very least whether you wanna
stands out too and often times what you'd be told is that if
were looking all across the city, shotgun houses embody
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affordable now. Nothing in the French Quarter is but if you
this kind of old working-class atmosphere. They're super
letting you get inside them and look around but the
just basically two singles smashed together, sharing one
the mid twentieth century for fitting houses into these
in the modern sense, you know, kitchens weren't always a part
city shifts over to much more American-style tastes, bringing
bricks in Louisiana were pretty bad. So, they didn't deal well
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relatively low key so far and that's because we're focusing
building in the French Quarter during the days when we
noticeable that most of what I'm pointing out is not the
a much larger door on the bottom. Also, a lot of times,
times upstairs, these were slave quarters and given that
view of a Creole townhouse over here and then a side view as we
type which is what we call a Creole townhouse. We've got a
which was hallways. Creole Cottages are just four rooms
houses along a fairly short street frontage and the way
this, you needed to import brick from somewhere else or
what they built and so you got these exteriors that were a lot
with them. So, for example, across the way, we're coming
proceeding through time. Mostly, Creole Cottages haven't
relative or the older kids in the family might live and
they have this seclusion and quietude that in the originally
outside and it's enclosed with this decorative but pretty
much more upscale quarters close to the street can be
this whole other side of the neighborhood that's really easy
revival detail although sometimes it's hard to spot
else. So, mostly what you're seeing here are houses that are
know how the buildings work. They're behind the same kinds
maintaining a pretty simple exterior most of the time.
few buildings like that every here and there. The other two
transitioned into American power at Louisiana purchase in
more. We also have virtual tour and channels that focus on DC,
stuff that people tend to lock eyes onto first thing when you
simple, what we call rot iron. Versus right next door, you
were built and they remained pretty austeer. Whereas, Creole
really hard to come by and so in a weird way, slave quarters
on stuff that reflects the early days. We're kinda
eventually, they become nowadays, really desirable real
their lives. So, these have changed a lot over time. As
arranged in a square and French colonial houses, Creole
at some points, the city is majority enslaved, these small
go over along the block and the side view helps us see the
to miss and that are really kind of the last frontier of
they were stables or carriage houses in which case you'd see
Spanish traces in general extend into another building
the residents of the quarter at certain points in history, this
French Quarter. They were the most frequently built type of
which has a small balcony just enough space to be able to come
you gotta get into these courtyards somehow. They're
this smaller structure and even though it doesn't look the same
privacy in what's today a really, really social
and innocuous as they are are sometimes the main residential
courtyard space. So, this building faces onto Charter
to your neighbor's house and go see them on their rooftop but
onto these houses again. So, most Creole Cottages are gonna
either bricks or this stuff called which is a mixture of
Generally, windows in the middle, doors on the outside,
so it partly if not completely destroyed this building and it
was built back afterwards. By and large, after the first fire
French villages, West African villages, and the work of
upstairs residential space protected from flood water back
that delineated your boundaries. So, as the city got
colonial was the design, everything was spaced a lot
this house in a row which would have allowed you if you liked
Creole Cottages which are these guys. So, superficially, Creole
is larger and it's also got this ground floor elevation
John's Legacy page on the Louisiana State Museum website
days when we were French, we're gonna show you French colonial
at this point. So, this is a house called Madame John's
common here in different phases of history. So, from the early
have two keys on your key ring, open up a gate first, go
very watery city. The French Quarter is right next to the
that led to a total transformation with the
in seventeen eighty-eight, the city was rebuilt again. This
Arrowac native Americans of the Caribbean and they were all
colonial houses wouldn't all have looked like this. This one
Royalty offered for many of the people who lived in New Orleans
would have had a rooftop patio and there used to be three of
If you wanna keep up with how it's doing, it's under some
area. So, looking at this, we could easily think of that
not stayed around and so what you tend to see these days is a
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above ground level. One of those was flooding. We're a
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design. There are virtually none of these left in the city
inside. You'll be going through one of these sets of doors on
for was fire which became a really big thing in the late
usually some pretty bright colors. What a trait that this
lot of different ways. The problem these were not great
the time when we're run by Spain and then we're gonna see
renovation right now. Hence, the fence across the street but
subject that has been looking in the background through all
wanna get a sense of where that name comes from or learn its
for, they also tell a lot of other stories besides. So, what
of our French Quarter videos but not something that we've
looking at, maybe in first some of the stories of the people
time.
who build stuff, the time in which it was built, and we're
I wanna share with you today is how to figure out what you're
French Quarter that you'd see a lot of French design and it is
typical American city and even from right where we are, you
the bottom and then, you'll be going up some stairs to get to
upper area as the second floor but for a lot of reasons, it
Orleans today. You might expect in a neighborhood called the
France ran the city between its founding in 1718 and it's hand
off to Spain in seventeen sixty-three. So, French
that not all of them would have had and you can actually
enclosed outdoor space is a social space. It's a space to
Creole Townhouses which cover the kind of transition from
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further apart. So, you could have a garden, really a yard,
This is your rare exam of French colonial style in New
the building and which are almost invisible from the
that we're gonna see is this guy right across the street.
design which is courtyards. So, outdoor space was important for
but it had to be done to certain specifications. And
Spanish moss, the gray stuff that hangs from trees and then
French and Spanish to American ownership. And then finally,
climate. So, this wasn't a great idea. So, the Spanish
buildings throughout the neighborhood. One of the things
Cottages look pretty different from French colonial style
what that top-down approach was gonna look like. So, Spanish
then, we were run by Spain, the Spanish crown was who decided
can see our much more typical American downtown right over in
couple of huge fires which decimated the existence of
Legacy. We actually covered in a previous video. So, if you
explore this on the inside if you want it because it's
not the case especially with our early styles of French
it's one of these preserved relics of a bygone time when
comes the hot season, during which time, given that warm air
gonna do that using four basic types of buildings that are
film resume, then, you can check out our French Quarter
firmly in the era of American ownership, we're gonna see some
taking what had worked in other colonies and put it here. Same
people love about the French Quarter is that when you get