The Times-Picayune, founded in eighteen thirty-seven, began as a four-page newspaper sold for a single picayune—a Spanish coin worth six and one-quarter cents. Its early publishers, George Wilkins Kendall and Francis Lumsden, built the…
Warehouse District Industrial Walk
This walk highlights the 19th-century cotton warehouses, machine shops, and printing presses of the historic American Sector, now reborn as a residential arts district.
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1. The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com
2. Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
The Contemporary Arts Center occupies a massive, hundred-thousand-square-foot facility at nine hundred Camp Street, distinguishable by the blend of original early-twentieth-century industrial brickwork and modern glass and steel…
3. Arthur Roger Gallery
Arthur Roger opened this gallery in nineteen seventy-eight on Magazine Street, operating out of a space his mother helped him secure by mortgaging her home in Chalmette. At the time, the local scene for contemporary art was small, but…
4. The Woodward Loft Apartments
The Woodward Loft Apartments occupy a structure built as a warehouse in nineteen eleven. Its defining feature is a central atrium designed to pull natural light into the middle of the building, where a series of Etruscan columns line an…
5. Preservation Resource Center
The Preservation Resource Center occupies a commercial building from eighteen fifty-two featuring a distinctive cast-iron Gothic Revival facade. This structure, which once housed the Leeds Iron Foundry, uses a series of bolts and tie rods…
6. The Cotton Mill
The Cotton Mill spans an entire city block, bound by Annunciation, Constance, and Poeyfarre Streets. Its massive masonry footprint remains a distinct reminder of the city's industrial past, when New Orleans functioned as the critical link…
7. Federal Fibre Mills Condominiums
The Federal Fibre Mills building is a five-story structure of brick and heavy timber, distinguished by its large, rectangular warehouse windows and a central atrium lobby. Originally designed by architects Favrot and Livaudais, the…